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As an alternative, I recently setup Nextcloud on an Ubuntu running vm using the snap package[1] and it took around 30 minutes in total.

1: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap

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I did the same some months ago - just a heads up that it's not without it's rough edges, but definitely does a near-enough-to-what-i-want job. I've noticed a few unsynced images and am currently struggling to get the android app to stop trying to sync a gigantic folder.

I was using the docker image with my own ansible/nginx setup before but I found that maintaining required a little more attention that I'd like to give it, so I decided to give the snap package a go. One nice thing is that it self-updates automatically. What sort of issues did you encounter?

Server side's actually okay, I think the android app has a number of bugs. For example I tried to set a folder with several thousand pieces of media and a few other files to auto upload and it'd keep triggering "nextcloud is not responding" pop-ups on my phone. It's ~6 gigs but didn't complete for two painful days. It was almost impossible to open the app cos it's intensely trying to sync that folder.

I thought I managed to cancel it yesterday and remove the folder from auto uploads but today it's trying to upload the contents of that folder again even though I can't find it in my auto upload setup.

I've also felt it misses instant uploads once in a while but never investigated to prove that or the circumstances so take that with a grain of salt

Nextcloud works quite well. And you have also a calendar and some other nice features which DropBox not provides. Also the desktop sync client as well as the android client(s) works quite well.

Yeah, those little applets are pretty useful. It does feel somewhat slugish if you enable many tho. Sync works perfectly for my use case.

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