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Anyone using Seafile?
I've deployed Seafile CE as a docker container and the thumbnail problem is driving me crazy. It can generate thumbnails for JPG and PNG but not GIF/HEIC. For HEIC I understand it's not a standard extension but how about GIF?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! (You know i'm desperate if I'm asking here for help)
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I can't even get Seafile in a docker container to work, TLS is as easy just add this to the environment variables.. yea sure.
Ended up with a bunch of cryptic TLS errors and gave up on that.
I would love to use it though.
I used the official guide and was able to bring up the docker in an hour. I'm exploring the other solutions (owncloud, FileStash) and all has its own issues. owncloud is almost perfect but the encryption always failed leaving me with all files can't be decrypted at some point lol
I used seafile. Only reason I don't use for personal files is due to being closed source.
It does have a encrypted library option which is claimed to be, E2EE.
Seafile is like Nextcloud right?
I have been trying it out this month and thought its open source?
https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-server
https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-client
yes, they are like alternative products to each other.
I used Seafile many years back, and later use OneDrive for less hassle on setup...
Official Seafile docker sucks. I use this one instead:
https://github.com/ggogel/seafile-containerized
After years of hosting nextcloud I realized nothing will beat propeitary services like Google photos/drive. So I gave up the experiment and turned out Google one was cheaper than my self hosted monstrosity 🤣🤣🤣
true, I tried NExtcloud, Seafile, but later turned to Dropbox (when they had 50% promo yearly), and now OneDrive (comes with Office365), ease of mind...
I host for the whole family, google drive will cost me a lot if I buy for everyone.
It doesn't, u can share Google one space with 5 members including urself. So a Terabyte is more than enough for the entire family.
Great! But how is this different than the official docker image?
Also, did you get all the thumbnails from images (especially GIFs) and videos? which is the main purpose of my original post...
The official seafile docker is inefficiently designed. Takes a long time for startup after update. Also this one provides certain PRO edition features for free. Read their readme.md for more details
But ha, I have ~15TB storage worldwide are idling and a 4bay nas at home, so ...
Ah well then I guess ur setup is better
To be honest, I didn't like seafile and I didn't even take off the installation guide. I can only tell you that you probably lack some kind of dependency and because of this there is such a problem. Try checking the Prerequisites and Rebuild Thumbnails. By the way, maybe it's the animation of GIF files. In short - look for another place to place files
Do you know if this uses more resources than the community image (cpu)? My old homeserver is at the end of its life and adding work to it seems cruel at this point
It will not use any more resources. Its the same components, just containerized.
You need pillow-heif for HEIF support. All other common image formats (including GIFs) should work out of the box, if not, it's either a bug (in Seahub or in Pillow) or your image is malformed in some way or another.
Fwiw, my current install can generate thumbs for both images, videos and documents.
I am running a tiny seafile server and for me at least JPG pics are working out of box for previews.
Because even the official Demo has no GIF thumbnail generated so I thought it's not supported. The code does indicate both GIF and HEIC preview are supported, this gives me hope
Thanks @jmgcaguicla you're a life savior 😎🧡
I managed to resolve all my thumbnail issues including HEIC and GIF (by installing pillow-heif and changing some codes).
Filestash dev here, can you get into more details on the "all has its own issues", I'd love to improve the software from people who have tried the software. HEIC and GIF are supported outside the box. In Filestash, the gif thumbnailing code applies a bunch of low level trickeries that make it faster than anything else
Get office 365 family it comes with 6 tb one drive for 6 members 1 tb each get a piece of mind do not host nextcloud or anything for personal pics or media files it always sucks not worth the time