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Hi,

I believe what Owncloud uses for syncing is only webdav, thus making it
pretty open to any solutions you come up with in your client side.

On 2 April 2016 at 17:43, Wayne Taylor <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> this is a good point, Rodney.  I also dont' want gigs of crap going to my
> phone. I want just only contacts/calendar and select files and the ability
> to do a backup of said files.
>
> owncloud again solves all this doesn't it?
>
> I imagine from the lack of support in here for owncloud that the licensing
> of owncloud is not purely 'free'?  Otherwise, i can't figure out why there
> wouldn't be more focus on using the owncloud project to speed up stuff...
> there has been tremendous development.
>
> but I'm just one man who thinks out loud...
>
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>
> On 16-04-01 06:45 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote:
>
> I don't think syncing is the answer. For example, I am using 400 GB of
> space in my home directory on my workstation. That's more than 10 times
> the total amount of space my phone has. It would obviously be
> impossible to sync it.
>
> What I want is not syncing. It is access and caching of certain more
> important things, like contacts/calendar.  I don't need to copy all my
> data to my phone, because I don't need it all the time.
>
> I certainly don't want sync services killing battery and eating data
> all the time trying to keep things synchronized, when it's not really
> necessary.
>
>
> On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 23:34 +0100, Wayne Ward wrote:
>
> I just read a post before about the sync stuff
> I agree that the system should now have a cloud sync option without
> the
> messing about with rsync and messy owncloud etc
> why did they drop ubuntu one?
> it worked for one and people like me are prepared to pay for space...
> like other platforms you should be able to log in and sync
> data
> music
> calendars
> contacts
> bookmarks
> tasks
> app data
>
> including back up if required..
>
> people get 2 gig free and of course they need more so pay a small fee
> for more space...
> if we cant have ubuntu one why not get a small team integrating sync
> options ie owncloud and google cloud services as it seems to me a lot
> of people are asking how to do this and its messy?... is it on the
> list
> of things to do or waiting for people to develop this? as i think you
> now have tablet / server / phone / computer desktop / laptop desktop
> and no sync between these - i think in todays way of mobile and
> computing this is part and parcel of every platform
>
> thoughts please?
>
> Wayne Ward
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