Hi guys do you guys know any selfhosted cloud solution that has a combined sync and filestream option?
Context when you use seafile on macos there is seadrive (mounts external cloud like a drive) and seafile sync which syncs files to local folders. The problem is the two clients sort of act seperatly from one other (you cant make seadrive make files offline for instance neither can you preview files in seafile sync).
By contrast onedrive and google drive both have client apps which can sync on demand (file stream) and optionally make files available offline with a simple right click in context menu.
Side note I have tried nextcloud on mac but its experimental mount mode just keeps a placeholder .nextcloud file.
Edit:
Nextcloud does have proper virtual file sync. Only limitation is you can’t make files availble offline via the context menu and instead need to set up manual folder syncs
Edit 2:
You need to grab the release from https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/desktop/releases/tag/v3.13.0
Specifically the vfs version Nextcloud-3.13.0-macOS-vfs.pkg
Syncthing copies the whole directory content, not just what you need.
OP is asking probably because of the outrageous apple SSD prices. For reference, swapping the 256gb SSD on the $700 Mac mini with a 2tb one costs $1000. And it’s soldered on the motherboard so you have to decide when you buy it.
Because drive and RAM size on apple computers is simply unaffordable (even in 2014 buying 1,75tb of solid storage would have costed less than this!), many users need to be conscious on what to locally save on the drive.
It’s probably to push users to iCloud as it’s optimized to keep everything online and occupy as less space as possible