I got a private message alerting me to the OSS developers moving off Owncloud to perform their work on a forked project Nextcloud, so that's what I'm exploring now. It kinda-sorta replaces the idea of iCloud, and a lot of the google sync features, neither of which I've ever brought myself to trust. This tool will finally allow me to keep most of my iPhone's content synced to my personal servers.
It looks like I've got calendar and contacts sync working, though there aren't really good tools for import/export of existing content (e.g. my 400+ contacts in the phone need to be manually imported to the Nextcloud). And the iPhone's settings screens are notoriously awful to figure out: the software maintains completely separate internal tables for multiple contact lists and multiple calendars, so you have to do some reading to figure out how to set the defaults to Nextcloud instead of local. Even with all that, though, this looks like something I should've pursued back in 2013 when I first heard the software title Owncloud. If you've got trust issues and "don't love the Cloud", read about it! -rich _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
