Hi there, I’ve heard/read that the new Virtual Drive Desktop Client will provide offline file functionality beside the on demand file fetching and caching. I’ve also heard that it will use some virtual filesystem for accomplishing this. I’ve finally heard some rumors that this new client will proba…

I would expect that your question should be answered by the original announcement: [image] Nextcloud introduces Virtual Drive in Desktop Client to simplify desktop integration 📰 News Originally published at: Nextcloud introduces Virtual Drive in Desktop Client to simplif…

@j-ed I have already read the announcement and I couldn’t get any explicit information about this. Can you please point me to the relevant passage. Thx!

[image] Nytrm: My Question: Will I be able to access my “available offline” files and folders without actual running the new Virtual Drive Desktop Client? A picture says more than thousand words :wink: [grafik]

@j-ed And where do I see if the new Nextcloud Client has to be run or in which way it is running??? When yes, is it a service/daemon or a normal process, which depends on a user login? Maybe another forum user is willing to provide a little bit more than just a picture of an already existing post/…

Sorry, but you asked if you need to start the Nextcloud client and the picture shows you that it is transparently integrated into the file system. You want to know if it is based on a service/daemon and the text explains that it is based on Dokan , an open source user mode virtual files system. I c…

@j-ed Your conclusion is wrong! I’ve read the announcement and like I said, I have a suspicion of the Nextcloud Client must always run in the background, because of the architecture of a virtual filesystem powered by Dokan(y). This is the indication of my question! And I also indicated, that I can’t…

@Nytrm I can give you a small bit of information, though in my testing so far, I’ve yet to have the virtual drive work correctly (maybe because I’m still on NC13 server). From my interpretation of Dokan’s docs , it looks like the Nextcloud client does need to be running in order for the virtual driv…

@mactrent Thanks a lot! In about two months, I will have a new workstation with windows on it. Then I will inspect your hints further. [image] mactrent: making changes to the files here will actually commit them to the server when Nextcloud starts again Would be interesting to know. But I …

Does new Virtual Drive Desktop Client have to run for accessing offline files?

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j-ed March 29, 2019, 7:54am 2

I would expect that your question should be answered by the original announcement: