I was configuring syncthing and I don’t know if it would be better to sync specific files that I need or just sync the whole android storage into a folder in my computer so that I can modify anything from it. What do you sync between linux and android?

  • @Suomynona
    1•2 years ago

    I have a Pictures Folder, especially Camera and screenshots. I keep my pictures small and compress them to like 70% JPEG using XNViewMP on Kubuntu, it makes no difference at all while reducing the size to 10%. More images, older Albums and big videos are only on my 10 times larger Laptop SSD. I have all my pics and other sync stuff on my SD card to be sure I dont lose the data if the phone breaks.

    I sync my Downloads, from the internal storage as some apps including firefox cant use a different download path.

    I sync a folder inside my university folder, called “important” to my phone, while syncing the whole parent folder “University” over Nextcloud to my uni servers. This way I have only important stuff on my phones storage, but I ca5gn access everything online.

    I sync important Documents.

    I sync Backups from my phone to my laptop, not the other way around. Like Apps, Signal backup, automatic contact backups (using the FDroid app “SD Contacts”, its awesome), or patched apps through Lucky patcher, to distribute them from my laptop.

    I sync Notes, with folder structure and plain .txt or .md for bigger stuff, using Kate (Linux) and SimpleFileManager + org.billthefarmer.notes (android). Some Libre office notes and books are only on my Laptop.

    I of course sync my draft using KDE Connect, extremely handy. I also sync my passwords, bookmarks and open tabs through Firefoxs encrypted Sync system (Braves is also nice, XBrowsersync too but only for bookmarks).