I’m moving to Linux but my cloud service (sync dot com) doesn’t have a Linux app. If I install Sync in Wine, can I move the synced files to my Linux system so that I can use them without Wine?

Literally all my files are in this cloud service. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

There's a Downloads directory in ~/.wine which is a symlink to /home/you/Downloads. Why not use that?

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Wine usually maps the Z drive to / on most installs. If Sync saves the files on the Z drive you will be able to access it from Linux

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Sorry or my technical ignorance but if the files in Wine are in the Z drive or downloads symlink can I move them out of Wine and to my main drive after the sync is complete? I was hoping that Wine would be a one-time workaround to get my files so I can switch to a new cloud service.

You don't need to 'move them out', if you have a directory called /home/suramya/MyFiles then when Wine looks at the system it will find a directory called Z:\home\suramya\MyFiles. Basically Z: is mapped to your Linux root directory (/).

All you have to do is tell sync to save the files under a directory in Z: (You need to have write permission to it) and when you go to that directory in Linux you will find the files there.

Hope that made sense.

- Suramya

I think it makes sense. Seems like I can just point my new native Linux cloud service to the same location as the Wine Sync folder then it will just sync those files. The only thing I can do is try it out!

Thanks for the knowledge @suramya and @business_kid.

Why do you think you need a Linux "app" to access your cloud host? Too many folks are conditioned to think nothing will work unless it's got "an app".....

It would help to know which "cloud service" you're using; TBH, there's no real need to muck about with WINE, since virtually all of them allow direct access via the browser these days.....unless you're using something esoteric that specifically states it's 'for Windows/Mac ONLY'?

Even then, I'd take that statement with a sack of salt. Most 'Windoze-only' stuff is amenable to running in/being accessed from Linux, if you're prepared to do a modicum of research. Linux invariably has a multitude of different methods for doing the same thing.....just in slightly different ways.

For something like this, Google IS your friend!

Mike.

You are welcome. Since you issue is resolved, can you please mark the thread as solved? (https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-solved-37593/)

How do you know the issue is resolved? The OP hasn't even reported back on this yet. Doesn't help to "jump the gun" TOO quickly..!


Mike.

I’m currently using Sync.com on a mac. I would have liked to stay with them but they have no Linux app. They’re the ones who suggested Wine. A strictly web-based approach won’t work for me. Literally all my files are in there, including my 20,000+ music files, which so web access is not sufficient. I need the files on my local drive and also occasionally access them on the web.

I may try it with Wine for a bit and see how it works. Maybe I don’t need to switch after all. Thanks!

There are several approaches to downloading files from the cloud host to your local drive. Many methods can do the transfer recursively so you can start it and just wait for the finish.

One very flexible way to access media on your local host from the internet is using something such as plexmediaserver which can allow you to have everything local and yet access it remotely without ever needing to use a cloud based service. I have ~30,000 media files, including over 1000 mkv videos I share with myself when traveling by using plex.

Using an approach like that will eliminate the need for Wine and for the cloud host.

So where would the files be if not on my local drive or in a cloud server? I don’t necessarily need to access them remotely. I listen to them locally and also currently sync the files to my iPhone. At some point I hope to get a Linux or de-Googled phone and sync to that but I plan to cross that bridge when I trip over it.

I’ve been an Apple user since the 80s with some Windows experience here and there. This deAppling thing will take some time and getting used to.

If using something like plexmediaserver the files reside on your local drive and can be streamed to almost anywhere. They would not even need to be synced onto the phone since they could be streamed locally via wifi as well as remotely. If you were going to be in a location where you did not have wifi access then the files you were using for that time would need to be on the phone but otherwise not.

Well the first step should certainly be to get your files back onto your hardware where you hold the tools to access them.
Then, rip out the drip feed that probably calls itself iCloud.

.....which is approximately the time when I gave up on Apple as a waste of time, after struggling mightily with an extremely balky Apple Lisa for several months....

Horses for courses, I guess. If ya like 'em, fair play to you. They're not for me, though (too "locked-down" for my liking, as well as being SO far out of my price-range nowadays that it's frankly ridiculous).

I'm not keen on Crapple's "walled-garden" approach, either.


Mike.