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[Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use it for what you just said
Phone has to be RW and a couple of scripts works great :)

Wayne 
n Saturday, 2 April 2016 15:43:50 BST, 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...
>
>
>
> 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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