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I've had pretty good experience with Nextcloud's instant upload. The only time I've had it shit the bed was ages ago when it would occasionally get stuck on a conflict, but that hasn't happened in a long time. Pretty much all of my image folders (camera/DCIM, Screenshots, Downloads) get synced. The only annoying thing was when apps would suddenly change where they download to and I'd have to reconfigure yet another sync folder, but I can't really fault NC for that.
Mine is set to upload and keep a local copy and only do a one way sync (phone to NC). Not sure if that causes less issues than a 2 way sync or deleting the local copy after upload?
I like it as well, but it has a tendency to just stop working every few months for some reason. Everything appears to be in order, the folder sync is active, but it just doesn't automatically upload anymore. It only starts working if I tell it to sync to a different folder instead. It is good otherwise though.
Weird. Other than how it used to choke when there were conflicts (and all uploads stopped until that was fixed) I haven't had any issues like that. Guess I'm just lucky.
I've had nothing but issues with NC instant upload, and stopped using it. It's error prone and needs constant hand holding for no good reason. It didn't handle taking a picture and then deleting it instantly very well (and will throw your notifications at you for this, often more than 1). When you have limited connectivity it will utterly confuse itself and ask you to resolve conflicts for 100 files for no reason, when it could just checksum server and client files and notice they are all the exact same. Also when set to only upload on WiFi, and not being connected to WiFi it often still spams notifications that the "upload failed", despite not being supposed to upload anything. And btw. it could upload files just fine, they failed only because upload on mobile is disabled!
It's a nightmare. Commonly also referred to as a cluster fuck.