Is anyone using Synology Cloud Station Drive (Third Party Repository)?

Staudey

Hello everyone,

since the question came up again recently, and I'm really not sure of the answer, I wanted to ask our community whether anyone is still using the Synology Cloud Station Drive software from our Third Party repository. It hasn't seen any (upstream) updates since May 2020, and there appears to be a similar, updated software called Synology Drive released for their hardware. Since that app seems to be available as a flatpak, it would become the new recommendation, and the old software eventually removed from the repository.
So basically, if you still use/need the old Synology Cloud Station Drive please raise your hand so I can see where we stand.
(not saying I'll immediately remove it if nobody responds, but it's a valuable data point).

Thanks in advance!

CorvusRuber

Here !
And yes, essentially it stopped updating (and more or less working) two years ago.
Regarding the flatpak: I've had mixed success with it to say the least, so much that now I simply use the NAS by manually mounting the drives in Dolphin.

WetGeek

CorvusRuber I simply use the NAS by manually mounting the drives in Dolphin.

That's how I use my DiskStation415. I added the necessary lines to /etc/fstab and mount the shares after a reboot by issuing a mount -a command. I'd never heard of Cloud Station until it was mentioned here.

Synology offers lots of software that I've never used. Never felt I needed to.

CorvusRuber

WetGeek
When it worked, Cloud Station worked quite well. Essentially it was a synchro tool: you pointed it to a source directory on your pc, a destination directory on the NAS and they were automatically synchronized.

WetGeek

CorvusRuber When it worked, Cloud Station worked quite well.

Sounds interesting. I've also heard that it's possible to mount network shares to the respective locations in a /home directory in place of the originals. E.g., if you have a Downloads share, you can mount that in /home/user/Downloads. Or mount a Documents share in /home/user/Documents. I haven't tried that yet, but it sounds interesting. I never use those home directory folders for anything anyway, just use the NAS for all my data storage, so I can acess that data from any machine or VM on the network.

I haven't looked, but I'm now wondering whether Cloud Station is one of the applications that are on the NAS itself? Maybe a fresh copy of itt could be installed from there? Or maybe by download from Synology?