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[qbasic_forever]

Syncthing is a flawless Dropbox replacement in my experience. There's a big caveat that you need something like a NAS or your home server always online with it though as it's peer to peer sync only.

[rexreed → qbasic_forever]

Syncthing doesn't support my older Mac devices anymore. I can't get Syncthing to work on Mac OSX Yosemite (10.10.5). And no, the device is not upgradable for a variety of reasons not worth going into.

Any solutions there?

[dotancohen → rexreed]

Depends on your use case. Maybe simple rsync and cron would be viable.

[tra3 → qbasic_forever]

Nobody talks about conflict resolution that Dropbox does..sync thing has an issue with conflicts because of its distributed topology. Editing the same text file on multiple machines inevitably resulted in a conflict that I had to manually resolved. I’m back with Dropbox for now.

[epalm → tra3]

If you edit a file on two devices at the same time, doesn’t Dropbox just create a copy of the file? Is that process what you’re referring to?

[tra3 → epalm]

Sometimes Dropbox does, but mostly it seems to figure it out.

Sync thing on the other hand creates a conflict almost always.

[epalm → tra3]

I’ve never used syncthing, when you say it “creates a conflict”, does that mean the same file copy mechanism as Dropbox?

[tra3 → epalm]

There are various strategies you can choose. If you mean creating a copy of the file with the conflict then yup.

[ohthehugemanate → tra3]

This is something that nextcloud does really well. There are lots of sync tools on the level of syncthing, but my experience with nextcloud is a polished experience truly competitve with Dropbox on the complicated stuff like conflict handling, private/restricted shares, etc.