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Nextcloud App Development

Last Updated February 24, 2018February 24, 2018No Comments

We are beginning work next week on developing these two apps: files extended metadata duplicate file detection This will be our first venture into Nextcloud App Development. Stay tuned for more news.

Nextcloud vs ownCloud – The Whole Story

Last Updated July 20, 2020July 20, 202081 Comments

Battle of the Clouds Interested in finding the private cloud package that will work for you? So are we! 🙂 In the open source private cloud space, there are several options, such as ownCloud, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and Pydio as well as smaller players such as SparkleShare. To see what’s happening in this market, let’s take a brief look at this Google Trends graph of interest in the top four packages over the past 5 years: Shows pretty clearly that ownCloud and Nextcloud dwarf the competition, and it also seems pretty clear that since its inception, interest in Nextcloud has been growing fast and today has actually more Google searches… Read More

How to Install Nextcloud

Last Updated July 18, 2019July 18, 2019No Comments

Nextcloud has two separate components which may need to be installed. They are the server and the client. We will describe each separately: Nextcloud Server The Nextcloud server is all that you actually need to run Nextcloud. The term “server” here means the web software that powers your Nextcloud website, the place where you can login via a web browser: and view/add/edit/share etc. your files and other data on your cloud: For details how to install the Nextcloud server, see our post. Nextcloud Client The Nextcloud client is a program that runs on your computer or phone and, once configured, mostly just runs by itself “in the background” and synchronizes… Read More

How to Install Nextcloud Client

Last Updated January 17, 2018January 17, 2018No Comments

To start, visit https://nextcloud.com/install and click “Desktop Clients” Click on the Windows or Mac version. Launch (or “open”) the downloaded file. The install process is then the same as any other program: Just click “Next” repeatedly until it’s done. When you now launch the program, the first step is to connect it to your cloud. It will ask you for the “Server Address” which means the URL of your cloud. Enter that and click “Next” and then enter your Username and Password. If you get those right, then the wizard will ask you if you want to sync everything or only certain files, and it will allow you to specify… Read More