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How to get actual file sync via Nextcloud on android? (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I've installed Nextcloud on Android and was able to make my password manager app load and save its data to a file in my Nextcloud.

But a few weeks later, I turned off the server Nextcloud is running on. Surprisingly, the password manager was not able to load the file with the passwords anymore.

On my desktop PC, all files are actually synchronized. They exist in the Nextcloud and locally. On Android, it seems like nothing is stored on the device and everything is just loaded from the server directly.

What's the best way to set it up like I have done it on my desktop device, so that I can still access the files when the server is down?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you open "all files" in your android app you open the options menu of a folder (three dots right) and push "synchronize". From now on this folder will be an your cloud und on your phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

So I need to create a sub folder and synchronize that and just can't "synchronize the whole thing at once"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, it seems so. I don't use that feature on my phone, because I don't need it, but it seems that this is the only way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you click on sync in the next cloud app on a file or folder it will keep a local copy but it might be in the app folder?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah it usually downloads sync'd stuff to Internal Storage/Android/media/com.nextcloud.client

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I use FolderSync app to do this, it can sync from many cloud services to phone and vice versa, heaps of sync options for which networks to sync on, how often to sync, etc:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full

There is a free version by the same author, but I haven't used that in a long time so I'm not sure of its capabilities.

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