Since syncing Joplin on my computers and iphone through nextdrive has proven to be very unreliable (sync fails on random wi-fi networks, no solutions have been offered), I am considering attempting sync through a onedrive account. Is this likely to be as problematic as nextcloud? forum search has shown a number of issues (eg: setting up different devices creating multiple joplin folders, etc), though number of onedrive problem posts has decreased since 2022. I don't know if this is because of increased reliability, or users have given up on using onedrive.
It was deprecated, but then they un-deprecated it.
Personally I never had any issues with it, but when it was deprecated originally I switched over to Dropbox, which has also been reliable for me.
There was a major issue that could happen that causes data loss due to a OneDrive bug, though I submitted a code change which will safeguard against that (providing you keep failsafe enabled), which is in the latest stable release of Joplin (see Desktop, Mobile: Harden failsafe logic to check for the presence of info.json, rather than just the item count by mrjo118 · Pull Request #11750 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub). Aside from the data loss issue, there have been a number of users who have had issues with OneDrive where the sync stops working randomly, so the reliability is questionable, and it's up to you if you're happy to give it a shot with the possibility that you might need to switch again if it proves unreliable.
hmmm. this isn't sounding highly encouraging. I am only considering it because syncing to nextcloud hasn't worked so well. had been working fine, until i tried it from a different wi-fi network. Seems it works on some wi-fi networks, not on others. meaning, of course, that it isn't reliable. Today, sync from one laptop failed because it says something is wrong with target (nextcloud) database, so failsafe stopped the sync. otoh, sync from iphone worked ok. sync from iphone worked ok on other wi-fi networks also, when it failed on laptop (with different error message).As i write this Joplin is doing a transfer of laptop data to nextcloud, hopefully to fix what is supposedly a problem in data at nexcloud (which iphone didn't see). ultimately, I don't know what's going on. Maybe the issue is with Joplin's sync code?
If I do decide to try Onedrive, is there a special process to keep it from deleting data on my device? or just start the sync and it will build data on onedrive from existing data on laptop?
And, when i set it up on another device, will it see the now existing joplin folder? one user wrote about the 2nd device creating a 2nd joplin folder at onedrive.
after rebuilding data at nextcloud, from laptop. I tried creating a new note on laptop, synced both laptop and iphone. nothing note on iphone I tried creating a new note on iphone, synced iphone and laptop, not seeing note on laptop. synced both several times. nothing. joplin sync issue? nextcloud issue? who knows? I do see that sync isn't working reliably. and this is on wi-fi that doesn't give error messages.