I'd love to find something for an environment where there are many people (many uncomfortable with technology) sharing a folder full of code, documents, and media for a project -- something that acts as a robust safety net. OneDrive is ok but has failed us multiple times (failed to upload, failed to sync, filed to notify).

Can Syncthing handle anything resembling an enterprise (ok, enterprise-light) setup? The last time I tried it on Android (~2 years old), it was painful, and that was just for my own personal backup, not a shared environment.

Thanks

- syncthing does one thing well. However you need to be your own server admin. Which is great if you are or your company will do it for you, but I don't want to do it for my personal stuff.

- syncany is exactly what I want, but it didn't get out of alpha, the team apparently didn't make money and have stopped maintaining it, and it still has some scary bugs, although probably my needs are somple enough that they woulnd't be triggered.

- cryptomator looks good itself, but you need something else to do the cloud storage part, which ideally supports webdav. Unfortunately the davfs2 crashes my linux box and the other alternatives don't seem to be much better.

- nextcloud and owncloud again want you to be your own server admin

- the guys benind tahoe-lahfs have a reputation for solid crypto and reliability, but it is complex to run. privatestorage.io were going to do a managed version, but it doesn't seem to have materialised yet.

- There are solutions like internxt and ipfs where everyone stores everyone else's files. I'm not sure I trust that not to go down without warning.

- proton are supposed to be coming out with a protondrive, which hopefully will have an open source client, although locked into them.

- There are proprietary ones like tresorit and spideroak, which have closed clients. I may have to grit my teeth and use one of them.

- A bunch of others I didn't evaluate yet.

What I want is for someone else to do the server admin part (availability and backups), but without my trusting them with my keys, which I only use with open-source client code. I don't mind paying a reasonable amount, but apparently this is hard.

Otherwise, its great.

I tried adding ignores for parts we didn't care about so much and fiddling with various settings, but it was still quite problematic.

Although I would prefer an open source solution, I'm looking at trying Resilio Sync next.

Also moved to Syncthing. And equally happy.

It has an automated component that routinely syncs directories, eg. to a remote target if you map via sshfs