Iām just curious, are people starting to use the NextCloud Drive (example, on Linux) and just plop files and folders there, or sticking with the traiditional desktop app for file syncing?
Iāve been using the traditional desktop app and have configured various folder to sync. But I recently started testing the Drive folder, and it seems to work fine.
Any downsides to using the Drive folder?
Hi @FredP,
Could you describe a bit more precisely what exactly you mean by the āNextcloud Driveā? There are quite a few applications and approaches that could be meant by that: do you mean the desktop clientās Virtual Files (files-on-demand) mode, a plain WebDAV mount, a dedicated client like NcDavTray for Windows, or did I miss a new release of some āNextcloud Driveā?
Asking because apparently I lost track of my own ecosystem. 
ernolf
I generally use RClone for transferring files in and out of NextCloud (unless Iām doing an ad hoc upload/download). It generally works great. I also use RClone for SFTP transfers, Google Drive transfers, OneDrive/SharePoint transfers, etc. It, along with Restic (for encrypted, deduplicated backups), have become indispensable tools for me.
Most likely you are talking about Virtual Drive
If thatās the case, itās āold hatā to me. And it should be the same for everyone who uses Linux.
You simply use an editor such as vi or nano, open /etc/fstab, add a new line at the end of the file with a WebDAV mount (<type> = davfs and <options> = user,noauto), and youāve been able to use this feature all along.
Iāve never heard of Nextcloud Drive, any links?
Nextcloud Drive sounds like a network drive (WebDAV mount?) and thatās not what I use Nextcloud for.
I prefer standard sync, as I want to have same, synchronized folders on all my computers, that can be locally backed up, same on Windows and Linux.
I donāt treat my Nextcloud instance as my central file repository, but only as means to keep my PCs synchronized and to have access to my files while away from home.
Looks like a different use case.
if that so, then yeah, old feature and not for me, itā all downsides for me.
Interesting. I use multiple NC instances and canāt see an upside to using a mounted drive over sync; sync allows me to maintain different ādata profilesā on different computers, automatically provides for backup of files and makes for clean offline working.
A mounted drive sort of makes sense in a corporate environment where people havenāt been persuaded to change old Windows-centric/office 9-5 working practices but strategically you want them to change that. Sure a mounted drive means files arenāt copied to the local computer; except it doesnāt for anyone who needs access to files offline, itās just theyāve removed their working copy of the files from the backup regime and away from team members.
I think you will have a local folder same name as well at /home/<xour_username>/Nextcloud/. So itās most likely a normal sync with that folder.
