You move the files to your user/files folder in your owncloud data folder.

then you run this command in the unraid terminal window.

docker exec -u www-data name_of_your_owncloud_docker php occ files:scan --all

then it should scan for all the files you moved to owncloud and add them to the database.

much faster than if you had to download the files from another software and then try to sync them to owncloud, can be buggy and take long when there are alot of small files.

Hope this help someone, took me ages to figure it out since i'm new to this kind of stuff

 

Edit: for nextcloud

docker exec -it nextcloud_container_name occ list

 

Edited October 7, 20214 yr by Norrox

This was super helpful, thank you!

You can also have ownCloud scan for manually added files in the background by setting the following in the confg.php file:

/**
 * Define how often filesystem changes are detected
 * Specifies how often the local filesystem (the ownCloud data/ directory, and
 * NFS mounts in data/) is checked for changes made outside ownCloud. This
 * does not apply to external storages.
 *
 * 0 -> Never check the filesystem for outside changes, provides a performance
 * increase when it's certain that no changes are made directly to the
 * filesystem
 *
 * 1 -> Check each file or folder at most once per request, recommended for
 * general use if outside changes might happen.
 */
'filesystem_check_changes' => 0,

 

On 1/14/2020 at 4:21 PM, Norrox said:

You move the files to your user/files folder in your owncloud data folder.

then you run this command in the unraid terminal window.

docker exec -u www-data name_of_your_owncloud_docker php occ files:scan --all

then it should scan for all the files you moved to owncloud and add them to the database.

much faster than if you had to download the files from another software and then try to sync them to owncloud, can be buggy and take long when there are alot of small files.

Hope this help someone, took me ages to figure it out since i'm new to this kind of stuff

Can you please provide similar commands for nextcloud? 

10 hours ago, Prashant said:

Can you please provide similar commands for nextcloud? 

docker exec -it nextcloud_container_name occ list

Thank you very much. It really helped me. 

I love unraid because of all you supporting members. 

On 8/15/2020 at 1:51 PM, dlandon said:

You can also have ownCloud scan for manually added files in the background by setting the following in the confg.php file:

/**
 * Define how often filesystem changes are detected
 * Specifies how often the local filesystem (the ownCloud data/ directory, and
 * NFS mounts in data/) is checked for changes made outside ownCloud. This
 * does not apply to external storages.
 *
 * 0 -> Never check the filesystem for outside changes, provides a performance
 * increase when it's certain that no changes are made directly to the
 * filesystem
 *
 * 1 -> Check each file or folder at most once per request, recommended for
 * general use if outside changes might happen.
 */
'filesystem_check_changes' => 0,

 

maybe an old topic. but I used this, and it scans properly, the folders are just of a different ownership. But Icant get the occ working if I go to my owncloud console, to my /config/www/owncloud and then use php occ. 
Maybe you know a quick answer, I cant seem to find out what Im doing wrong here.

 

maybe my user is not www-data? edit: it's abc. thanks.

Edited September 8, 20223 yr by Kees Fluitman

12 minutes ago, Kees Fluitman said:

maybe an old topic. but I used this, and it scans properly, the folders are just of a different ownership. But Icant get the occ working if I go to my owncloud console, to my /config/www/owncloud and then use php occ. 
Maybe you know a quick answer, I cant seem to find out what Im doing wrong here.

 

maybe my user is not www-data?

Be sure it has execute permission: 'chmod +x occ'.  To execute it: 'sudo -u abc ./occ'.

I'm also curious about this. I'm moving my nextcloud install to a new server (Nextcloud Hub 7 (28.0.1) ). I'm also changing the database connection over from mariadb/mysql to postgresql15. I decided not to bother with the database migration, and am just going to rebuild. I have three users: admin, ruth, and ann. I figured I'd create the users, then point the entire storage directory over at my /mnt/user/nextcloud share. Not sure what the hell will happen with permissions there - I need the ruth files to be there for ruth, ann files for ann, etc.

<throws hands in air> Let's mess around and find out!

For others still having issues - I also used the command `docker exec -it nextcloud occ files:scan --all` after manually uploading files via SMB to my instance. The web upload (drag and drop) doesn't work for me all the time so I end up doing that.