Been using syncthing for a year now and works great for syncing between devices. But i miss file sharing with family members that nextcloud allowed me to do. Yet i left ut because it was too bloated and every update at the time broke my instalkation. Is there something a mature and specialised as syncthing but that allows sharing between accounts?

  • MuttMutt@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Make a syncthing directory for each person you want to share with. For only a few people it’s really simple. I do this with a few different things. Each “share” can be setup with individuals or groups as you need.

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      5 days ago

      Yes, but when you try to share that folder with different users on the same device it gets complicated … each user needs its own instance and it feels messy and unecessatily complicated for the end user.

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        4 days ago

        On the same device? You don’t need anything. Just share that folder in the os. It

        … I know I am missing something here.

  • meathappening@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    I haven’t used it but I heard a lot of good things about copyparty.

    Also, I don’t want to be that guy, but were you running Nextcloud in a container or bare metal? Nextcloud pissed me off too, but now I’m running NextcloudPi in an LXC and have had no issues so far.

  • Eldaroth@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    There is also Pingvin Share X, a fork of the original Pingvin Share. It allows you to create file share links, even with an expiration set, either by duration or count of link opened.