[Owncloud] Hate to say it but . . .

[Andreas Schneider]

On Friday, April 26, 2013 11:57:15 hemathor wrote:
> i have the exact same experience with the exact same use case almost every
> time i update either the owncloud client or the owncloud server. it is
> extremely annoying to delete all the conflict files again and again,
> sometimes thousands of them, one each minute or so.
> 
> until now, i circumvented that problem by creating new sync folders with
> each update and copy all relevant files to the new folder and delete the
> old one. but since this sucks big time, costs a lot of time and nerves and
> i alraedy have a working sync alternative with dropbox+encfs and unison, i
> decided to end my sync experience with owncloud at least for a while before
> i try again...
> 
> and then there is the issue of deleting a file on the client, and with the
> next sync the deleted file appears again at the client instead of being
> deleted on the server... wtf? eternal files? nice idea, but that's not what
> i wanted...
> 
> i had so much hope for owncloud as a sync alternative, but i don't see it
> being reliable any time soon.

The art is to report a descriptive bug and get it fixed!

See:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html


	-- andreas