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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Driftkarter on 2025-04-24 20:48:07+00:00.
Generally lurk on this sub after going down the rabbit hole of self-hosting tools for myself and have benefited once more from doing that hole.
Setting up Nextcloud was the result of examining the options available in Joplin for syncing notes, to the point that I refer to Nextcloud as my "Joplin tangent."
However, after spending all day in FreeCAD adding onto a design I've been working on over the last few weeks, FreeCAD bugged and resulted in my design file breaking to a point that further edits were no longer possible, and FreeCAD would now start crashing.
After spending ~1 hour working on trying to fix the file, whilst the last backup file FreeCAD generated was also broken, and thinking weeks of work were now lost, I realised that the folder the project was in was synced with Nextcloud.
Therefore I looked at my nextcloud web page found nextcloud's version control had save my ass. Downloaded the last version of the file that was available that wasn't broken, and ended the day happy that I only lost 3 hours of work instead of weeks.
Either way, thanks to you guys sending me down this rabbit hole, and I guess the next thing I'll be doing next is adjusting my FreeCAD settings for multiple backup files, and I think in the future I'll keep all my future FreeCAD projects in a Nextcloud synced folder.