What is Virtual File Support?
Virtual file support is a feature common to services such as Onedrive or Dropbox where all the files stored on the service cloud storage provider appear in your file system but are never actually downloaded until you open the file. This is done in an effort to save space on your local disk.
Setup
Install
Fedora
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| sudo dnf install nextcloud-client-devel
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Ubuntu
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| sudo apt install nextcloud-desktop
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Enable Experiment Features
- Open
~/.config/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg
- add
showExperimentalOptions=true under [General]
- Save and close the file
copy librarys to where Nextcloud expects them to be (Fedora specific)
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| sudo cp /usr/lib64/nextcloudsync_vfs_suffix.so /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins
sudo cp /usr/lib64/nextcloudsync_vfs_xattr.so /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins
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Sign in
- Launch the app
- Sign in with your nextcloud credentials
- Tick
Use virtual files instead of downloading content immediately
