Now it would be interesting to setup a raspberry pi with harddrives plugged in the USB 3 portsπ‘
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This is really impressive
OMG! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time!
I will try this as soon as I have time. Thank you!
I looked at the comparison for Seafile as that's the one I'm most familiar with. In my opinion Seafile's greatest strength is its encryption, but in your comparison you seem to see this as a negative as I assume this bullet refers to the encryption? "isolated on-disk file hierarchy, incompatible with other software. much worse than nextcloud in that regard"
the intention with that statement was that seafile, by default, places all the files inside its own proprietary file container thing, where the files are not easily accessible from the server's actual filesystem, using regular linux utilities. My knowledge of seafile is really minimal, so this could be wrong -- in which case I'll fix that right away! or, at the very least, try to clarify what I meant to avoid this confusion.
in case you happen to know -- are you aware if it's possible to use Seafile while having it just place all the files and folders on the disk like any other program would?
@tripflag @disobey2623 Your statement is correct; the way seafile stores files is in blocks (for de-duplication, apparently).
They offer a fuse extension that allows you to view stuff like a normal filesystem, though I've never tried it: https://manual.seafile.com/latest/extension/fuse/
And obviously, encrypted folders can't be accessed through the file system even with the fuse add on, because that would break the whole point of encryption.
To me, the one big advantage Seafile has is its e2e encryption and encrypted folders, as it allows me to host it externally without allowing access to my files to the server administrator.
Wow! This is great. I may give it a shot.
Wo wo wow, is that my man JC Denton ??
"There are two editors in case you hate one of them"
You crack me up !!!
this looks amazing! (from the youtube video. also the controls/features seem to be well thought-through) i'll give it a shot tomorrow
I see flake.nix, i install.
I played around with copyparty and I have to say it is just awesome! The config is just fun to mess around with and everything feels snappy.
But I ran into an issue with FTP (probably just something I configured incorrectly) and could not find a discussion for that. I should probably start an issue on Github but as a non-developer I'm not sure how to do that in the correct way.
Edit: I managed to "solve" the problem. Apparently the user uploading to a subfolder over FTP needs the move permission for the folder above said subfolder.
This looks nighsome as blossom!
Does anyone know if you can manage multiple devices from a single interface? If I had it on a couple of old phones and a laptop, for example.
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This looks great, nothing to check it out.
Can you point me to the WebDAV code? Iβm interested to see your implementation. There are some parts of the spec that are ambiguous, and I like to see how those are implemented in different servers.
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I'll have to say that this is about one of the most detailed instructions I've seen, replete with copious screenshots. I'm going to have to give it a go just based on that. LOL
Hey! Just set this up today and it seems pretty good. Only issue I'm having is that is pretty slow to download (~2mb/s) what are some good ways to speed it up?
Wow.
This works crazy fast and performant. Keep up the incredible work!
This is incredible! I'm going to play around with this in my docker stack.