Hello,
I noticed following behavior and I am wondering if this is how it is supposed to be:
I make photos whit my mobile phone. They are uploaded to the server plus on the mobile phone these are moved to the nextcloud app folder. This works most of the time flawlessly.
But if I delete the image in e.g. the Galery App of my Phone, it won’t be deleted on the server and if I synchronize the folder it will download deleted images again.
And I am missing the delete action it in the Nextcloud App itself.
Expected behaviour: deleting a synced file on phone should triger a delete on the server as well, like it does for the desktop client.
Mobile App Version 3.32.2 (F-Droid)
Server Version 31.0.7 on an Ubuntu machine
Pretty much!
The Nextcloud app will auto-upload files in a folder if that’s what you’ve set, otherwise, the folders aren’t properly synced/linked. Re-syncing with your phone shouldn’t lose your files, that’s why the file reappears rather than deleting it on the server.
Technically, you can specify a single file to remain synced (I do this with my Keepass database), but this hasn’t worked well since google decided to break things.
Sorry, there’s no easy or obvious way I could find to keep a folder properly synchronised.
Out of curiosity, what is the reason that the sync doesn’t work like on a PC with the Desktop App. On my Computer if I delete a file, it is deleted on the server and vice versa. I’d expect the same behaviour on my mobile device.
My understanding is (and this is an educated guess based on things I’ve read since switching to Nextcloud in 2016), the devs didn’t want you to overload your phone. You can keep deleting stuff off your phone knowing they were uploaded to your server.
People are starting to ditch laptops in favour of tablets and phones nowadays, but the architecture was based on phones like the Galaxy S4 Mini. (It worked great on my old S4 Mini!) Remember when you had to keep deleting stuff off your phone because you ran out of room? That’s why it was set up like it was.
I agree with you, I wish the app had better development over the last half a decade. It’s hard to figure out what it’s going to do when you’re familiar with the web UI and the desktop app.