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I'm using ownCloud on one system and considering migrating it to another; should I switch to NextCloud instead? Seeking opinions.

For myself, my usage is small enough that I don't care if my "migration" is that I just copy over the two user's worth of data I have in the file sharing and set up the one shared folder I have again by hand. (It's a home cloud, not corporate.) In fact in some ways it'll be easier than what I was planning on doing.

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try nextcloud.com/migration - but keep in mind that it is slowly getting harder and harder to switch. We try to keep it easy and smooth but ownCloud is backporting a lot of potentially breaking changes in their 'stable' branch, rewriting low-level code etc. Their engineers are of course new to the code base so they make, well, different choices than we would make :D

While feature-wise, we're still not really missing anything oC has, the underlying codebase is really diverging, we're not really merging any code from oC since a year now...

Migration will become a real, risky pita at some point I'm afraid. Apps are already dropping compatibility and mobile apps, too.

Thank you.

Like I said, a brute-force migration for me isn't too big a deal. Half the work for things like switching apps on my phone I'd have to do anyhow.

I just did a switch from oc 10 to nc 13. The docs work fine but are missing some potential table column additions (mostly with apps) which are needed to get things working smoothly. Thankfully the logs will tell you exactly what needs to be done.

You may want to consider Seafile. It is specialized in file synchronization (so no calendar, etc.) but I hapilly moved from Owncloud some time ago and it is great (=smaller, specialized)

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