+1. It works perfectly if your mental model is:
reply“Every file is only ever written to from a single client, and will be asynchronously made available to all other clients, and after some period of time has elapsed you can safely switch to always writing to the file from a different client”.
Bidirectional file sync is also in hot demand from people who don't know the words, "file", "client", "write", "async", "available", or "time"
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The fact that lay people can and will use a tool incorrectly does not mean said tool is not useful
reply> And if I ever do have one, my real backup solution has me covered.
replyWhat do you use and how do you test / reconcile to make sure it’s not missing files? I find OneDrive extremely hard to deal with because the backup systems don’t seem to be 100% reliable.
I think there are a lot of solutions these days that error on the side of claiming success.
I agree. I use syncthing for syncing phones and laptops. For data like photos, which aren't really updated. It works very nice. And for documents updated by one user, moving between devices is totally seamless.
replyThat being said i understand how it works at a high level.