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   🎃 Kai und das Stadtbild 🎃 (walsonde@antifa.style)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 22:45:29 JST 🎃 Kai und das Stadtbild 🎃

   The biggest downside of #Nextcloud for me is that it doesn't reduce the amount of local space used by my files, since it's focused on offline availability.

   I on the other hand don't need the cloud to synchronise files between multiple computers but to access the dozen tb of files, that no laptop will ever be able to download with their internal 512GB drives.
   And I frankly don't give a shit off that's only possible while being online since I'm never not online.

   Help me out here, please! What self hosted cloud can do that with a desktop client or webdav integration in Nemo?

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     Markus (markusr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 22:45:34 JST Markus

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     @walsonde I don't know which operating system you use, but the official #Nextcloud desktop client for Windows[1][2] and macOS[3] has a feature called “Virtual Files,” which I think is exactly what you want. But I don't know if the #Linux client can do that too. And I don't know how well it works, as I don't use it.

     [1] https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-desktop-client-3-2-with-status-feature-and-virtual-files-available-now/
     [2] https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-virtual-drive-in-desktop-client-to-simplify-desktop-integration/
     [3] https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user_manual/en/desktop/macosvfs.html

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     Markus (markusr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 22:46:37 JST Markus

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     @walsonde Ah, I looked up what Nemo is. Linux, then. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be ready/stable yet: https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/3668

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     Thomas (tcit@framapiaf.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 22:46:46 JST Thomas

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     @walsonde Even without the VFS feature of the Nextcloud Client on Linux, you can simply not use the sync client and use WebDAV mounts of Nextcloud files on your file manager.