Webdav in windows donāt work well. You have a lot of issues like :
Slow performances (bandwidth really slow)
Problems with office files. You wonāt open this files in write mode if you have Office after 2010
You can avoid that with using paid Mountain Duck for exemple.
The Nextcloud Virtual Drive works like the Google File Stream.
You have a folder where you can see all you 10TB of Nextcloud files without having them on your PC. You can sync some folders if you want to like the normal Nextcloud sync client for desktop. If you loose internet connection you can still go in the folder and you will access only the files you already synced.
@alfred , sure thatās why i stated as third way, the lesser nice solution. But there are other pros and cons. Nobody negoates or doubts this. therefore also in italics.
The point was the ānewā solution does exactly the same as the old ones. (the points in bold). Itās the same in a simpler manner.
As a first glance yes Dokan does the first point.
But after itās another world .
And for free the NC virtual drive client will give users nice feature and will compete with the Gdrive File Stream client.
With this logic in mind: i could also just mount the folder with "subst %DRIVELETTER% %PATHTOFOLDER% ". And now i have a Drive with synced files. That cannot be the point. This has nothing to do with the mapping of a network drive.
And i said before, i donāt want to make the solution bad (nice and easy needs to be) , i ask for the announced advantages over the existing ones with the new solution.
whatās the current state of this very interesting project, esp. on Mac and Linux?
Didnāt find any news after the first announcement and only see discussion here until April.
Would be sad to see this project being abandoned, was there any decision on its future?
Does anyone knows anything on this project?
I desperately tried to follow every thread here and on github, but no real official statement on that in 2 years (!).
It has been commented to death on the nextcloud forums and addressed multiple time on github with users proposing to pay for that development.
But except of tons of recommandations and suppositions by various users, no real ETA or official statement has been made since that ominous annoucement.
Fact is that after two years since the initial announcement all of the other big and not so big cloud provider offer this kind of solution except NC.
Iām sorry but this is frustating as a user and Iām wondering how nextcloud can claim to be the most popular cloud file synching solution provider.
I guess that with the pivot to transform nextcloud into a hub where the users are supposed to work more using your webbrowser than their file browser the attention to add such essentials improvement to the desktop-client is lowered.
This development on that essential functionality is very saddening.
Iām moving back to owncloud.
Thanks, i also saw that phrase in one of numerous github issues.
And thatās what I mean that the com is saddening about this dev.
No real statement for a year.
I mean, alone in this forum post where it has been officially announced, there are up to today 238 answers nearly 30k views and not one official reply or post since september last year.
I would also like to see some news about this topic.
Currently testing nextcloud, I m struggling with this client sync on my mac. Itās eating my local disc space when I would like to only select what I want to be downloaded and work on it and resync while still having the possibility to see all folders and files.
Isnāt it better to have it loaded as an external/server drive rather than a local drive?
Maybe I m losing the point or somehting.
But for me having a cloud that is eating space on all my workstation isnāt a cloudā¦
I would also like to see some news about this topic.
they working on it you see it also in this branch (6 days ago last activity):
But for me having a cloud that is eating space on all my workstation isnāt a cloud
this is a weird definition of cloud. but anyways until the feature is there just restructure the data and then donĀ“t sync all of your folders. if this is not possible add it via webdav ā¦
What you are talking about is already possible. You can mount your Nextcloud via WebDAV which will add your Nextcloud as a remote drive, so you can see and edit all files.
The difference from the discussed āVirtual Driveā is, that you will have to be online, because WebDAV is like a network file system which doesnāt cache anything. Virtual Drive should close this gap in the future, as it will list everything but keep files offline available if you edit them automatically.
So for your usecase i advise to mark often used files and folders to synchronize with the desktop client and parallel mount your Nextcloud via WebDAV, so you have the best of two worlds until the discussed feature will be ready (and it wonāt get ready earlier if people have to spend time to answer the same question the 50th time )
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