I recently noticed that my nextcloud instance was missing photos. I have the android app set to automatically upload my photos. When I need to clear up space on my phone, I make a separate backup (because I’m a paranoid SOB and hard drives are relatively cheap). I noticed that nextcloud auto upload missed about 10% of the photos. I’m not going to bash the nextcloud devs, as I recognize that I am using a free product and am owed nothing, but I’m making this post so others are aware of this risk. Apparently I’m not alone https://help.nextcloud.com/t/android-client-does-not-auto-upload-all-images/216849/14
This is a know issue that has a very long issue on github, it started for me when Google changed the rules on full file access. But the latest version of the app has been rock solid.
I ended up downloading all my photos to my laptop and doing a sync from there
What’s the link to the issue? I’d like to follow its progress. Thank you!
your in luck, as I couldnt find the issue when I posted.
But there is an update to this 👉 https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/15822
Thank you! It seems the ongoing 3.35 version is reimplementing the auto-upload logic, so this is promising. It is still in RC stage, but hopefully will be stable soon.
Weird coincidence that the exact reason for this thread is addressed in https://github.com/nextcloud/android/releases/tag/rc-3.35.0-01. RC2 was just released yesterday.
Yes and no, there have been issues with the android app for a long time. Some of it was Google and some the way it would detect files, it just happens that I posted the GitHub issue.