Hey everybody, first time post here.
Here’s a quick rundown of my setup. I’m running an ubuntu server with a Nextcloud/redis/maria db stack. I’ve enabled collabora online built in CODE server for my online nextcloud office. On my pixel i use the collabora app and my linux mint desktop I’m using either libre office or collabora office. I’m currently just a single user and I use a wireguard server on my router for remote access. I’m fine with not having live web based editing for now as I’m the only user. My syncs between my phone and my nextcloud server UI are flawless.
The PROBLEM I’m experiencing is on my desktop when I open say a .xls(using calc) or .docx(using writer), libre office or collabora opens them with a “.~lock.” When this is opened it wipes the data in the file and resyncs my nextcloud server UI and my phone nexctcloud app with the wiped version.
Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution??
I’ve also only recently been tinkering with servers and self hosted applications for about 5 months, so this is all new to me and I could easily be overlooking a few things.
Many thanks in advance
In my situation it’s more my desktop giving me issues and not android.
So when you open office files on your desktop synced folders, they open with the changes you’ve made from your phone? Do you mind me asking what OS/distro your desktop is and what local office you use?
Right now I’m forced to use the nextcloud server UI office to see any changes I’ve made on my phone. Then, and only then if I save the file in the server UI I will see the desktop office files update… I was picturing being able to see sync changes between my phone and desktop without the need to use the server UI as a middleman.
I’m on opensuse/fedora/Debian and haven’t noticed any issues. Libreoffice for my office suite on all of those. Collabora office (not through nextcloud) on my phone.
I have disabled nextcloud office and CODE server because of the troubles it gave me. So all my edits are directly to the the file itself, even on mobile, using a separate editor.
I’ll try the f-droid nextcloud version and keep tinkering with sync settings and see if anything resolves!
In the meantime I’ve just installed Material File on my phone and am accessing my SMB server shares from my Unraid NAS and it’s doing what I need for now. I’m considering sync thing to actually have copies on my clients instead of direct editing to my NAS shares. I’ll keep nextcloud running on the sidelines to fiddle around with but I think it’s a bit of a bigger beast than I need for just myself haha.
I’m curious how you like/compare fedora and debian? Are you using them both as servers for different purposes?
Debian for servers, fedora/opensuse for desktop. I like Debian on server because it’s slow to change and every how-to will pretty much work with very little need for delving deeper. I used opensuse for a server for a little bit, but it was mostly an exercise in seeing how much I actually understood linux since there’s almost no directions for opensuse anywhere, so you really need to know how it works and translate instructions for other distros to it. I was using Tumbleweed and at one point there was an update that broke my networking that I couldn’t figure out, I wasn’t running anything really important on it, so instead of doing the instruction translation thing all over again for Leap (OK, I did actually do it, but I was already thinking of shutting it down and did a few months afterwards), I just took what I needed off of it, shut it down and moved the scraps onto my debian server.
I’ve used Debian for desktop as well and had zero complaints, it’s a little behind on updates because stability is more important. I’d actually put on par with a real enterprise distro, rather than the community testing ones like you get with Fedora and opensuse. Boring, does what it’s supposed to, misses a lot of vulnerabilities because they’ve already been fixed. All the new cool features that get added to everything shows up next release.
I liked Fedora a lot, it’s pretty really solid workstation (I use the KDE version, I’ve hated gnome with a passion since 3) but I’m not a fan of the direction IBM seems to be dragging redhat, so I’ve been transitioning to opensuse on desktop. Opensuse is pretty on par with Fedora, just a little different, but there are a few things that aren’t available of you need vendor software because they test on Debian and Fedora, release a .deb and .rpm and that’s the end of it. I keep a fedora VM around for one off packages that don’t work in opensuse or aren’t available. I’m taking some online courses, so the fedora VM is mostly used for the weird things my university requires that I can still use Linux for, and a windows VM for when things get real bad, which I haven’t actually used after the “learn to use Microsoft office” course.
I don’t do any gaming anymore or use any special purpose software for my normal use, so it doesn’t really matter to me which flavor I use. Except that I dislike gnome 3 because I have preferences that don’t fit the developers idea of hire a use should use their computer, and xfce because…I don’t really know, probably the right-click menu thing, I have no good reason.