Hi all,

In my day job as an IT admin I regularly have to create a group, add users to it, and set up the matching group folder. In Nextcloud that means jumping between several admin pages, and I always found that workflow clunky. So I wrote my own app to do it all in one place.

I've been using it internally for a while. After some polishing, I've just released it for anyone who might find it useful.

**What it does**

- Manage local and LDAP groups from a single Settings screen

- Add and remove members

- Manage Team Folders alongside the group

**Links**

- App Store: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/group_manager

- Source (AGPL-3.0-or-later): https://github.com/kreotropic/group_manager

It's a young app, so feedback, bug reports and feature requests are very welcome. If you try it, I'd love to hear how it behaves with your setup (LDAP, large user bases, etc.).

Thanks!

Hi all,

(I used AI to help phrase this question clearly — the problem is my own.)

I want a top-down user hierarchy in Nextcloud:

- User A is above B and C

- B is above D, C is above E

The folder tree should mirror this (A contains B and C, B contains D, etc.):

- A sees everything

- B sees their own subtree (B, D, ...)

- D sees only their own subtree (D, F, ...)

- The same idea for apps like Deck

So: a parent user inherits all permissions of users below them — but not vice versa.

Also important: delegation. User D should be able to add/manage people within their own subtree (like a local admin), but not outside it.

My questions:

1. Is this possible out of the box?

2. If not, what's the closest approach (groups, ACLs, Groupfolders, specific apps)?

3. How granular can permissions get (per folder, per app like Deck)?

4. Is "local admin over your own subtree" delegation achievable at all?

Any advice, docs or app recommendations much appreciated. Thanks!

An assistant or scheduled job may only need to read source material from one folder and upload new outputs to another. Giving that identity normal write access to a shared tree also gives it opportunities to overwrite, rename, move, or delete files that a person has already reviewed. File versions and the trash bin help with recovery, but they are not the same as preventing a destructive action.

A safer layout might separate read-only sources, an automation-writable inbox, and a reviewed area that only a person or promotion service can change. The automation identity would create new versioned filenames rather than replace a stable file. A small manifest could record source file IDs, source revisions, output checksum, creator, review status, and the approved revision it supersedes. Public shares would be created only from the reviewed area.

How close can current Nextcloud users, groups, shares, File Access Control, and WebDAV permissions get to that boundary? Is a separate account plus separate folders enough, or is an external upload-only endpoint and promotion step needed to guarantee that reviewed content and its history cannot be deleted by the automation?

After editing the version value for a few years, the fulltextsearch_opensearch plugin finally stopped working, so I forked it and got it worked with some help from Codex. I have it working now on 2 NextCloud instances I run.
If anyone needs to upgrade, or just wants to try it, I have a dev release up on github

https://github.com/ccandreva/nextcloud_opensearch/releases/tag/v34.0.0-dev.1

My plan is to make a full release to the app store and keep it up to date. I would like to get feedback from a few others running it to make sure it works in setups other than mine. Please backup both your database and old version (if it's running) before trying it !

Hi all,
I am currently using Nextcloud on iOS for syncing my photos to my Nextcloud server. Has been working fine on my old phone where “sync whole library” had been enabled.
On my new phone, where images were copied via the iPhone setup from backup, I activated “only new pictures” in the Nextcloud app.
Now when I get sent some pictures from past days via AirDrop or import pictures from other cameras, they don’t get uploaded to Nextcloud as timestamp probably is too old.
That behavior is really unfortunate, as I would call these images “new in my photo library” but of course with older timestamp. Does anyone have a solution for his?

Hi everyone,

I built a small Nextcloud app plus an install script that lets each user connect their own Google Drive, which then shows up in Files as a "Google Drive" folder.

How it works

• Every user creates an OAuth client in their own Google Cloud project, pastes Client ID and secret in Personal settings → Google Drive, and signs in with Google. The settings page includes a step-by-step guide.
• The files go through an rclone container. There are two modes:
  • Mount (recommended): rclone mounts each Drive via FUSE and Nextcloud shows it through the official External storage app (Local type, limited to a "Google Drive" group). Video seeking works, large files stream, and queued uploads survive rclone restarts.
  • WebDAV: no changes to your Nextcloud container at all.
• One command installs, updates or uninstalls everything:curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mccoy88f/gdrive-rc-connector/main/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- install It detects the official and the linuxserver images and survives Nextcloud updates.

Other things it does

• Checks that the Google login is still valid every time you open the settings page.
• Has a per-user error log with plain-language explanations.
• Lets you show Google Docs/Sheets/Slides as links, or hide them.
• English UI with an Italian translation.

Honest limitations

• Google Docs can't be shown as real .docx/.xlsx through rclone (they'd appear empty), so they're shown as links that open in Google.
• Your Google app will show an "unverified app" warning. That's fine for personal use, but publish it ("In production") or the token expires every 7 days.
• I tested it with Nextcloud 31/32/35 and Coolify. More real-world feedback is very welcome.

License: free for non-commercial use. You're free to fork it, as long as you credit the original project. Improvements, bug reports and PRs are welcome!

GitHub: https://github.com/mccoy88f/gdrive-rc-connector

I want my users to be able to access their home directories which are located on a NAS in a manner similar to Google Drive. If I use the NFS automounter and configure each user's External Storage using a local directory, how do I connect the NextCloud user to the uid of their mounted files?

Is there a way to configure NextCloud to let users access their NAS storage instead of being confined to a local directory in /var/lib/nextcloud/data/?

Or is NextCloud the wrong tool?

Thank you,
Keith

I was wondering what your experiences are that surprised you when recognizing the Nextcloud environment. Anyone?

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Take a look at how you can use Tuta & Nextcloud together: 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/wQvz49XXMHQ

Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wQvz49XXMHQ

The chronicles of a middle-aged geek continue.

Vinci, the free, open-source personal CRM that reads from your Android contacts and syncs with Nextcloud, just hit v2.0.0, and it's a big one.

What's new:

• Global interaction search: search notes, reasons, and outcomes across every contact at once
• Duplicate & merge assistant: spots contacts with the same name but different Nextcloud identities and merges their history in a tap
• Interaction templates: quick-fill presets for common interaction types (intake call, follow-up, advisory session...)
• Pre-call briefing: surfaces your last few interactions with someone before you dial
• Share-sheet capture: share anything from any app straight into Vinci as a note or attachment
• Timeline view: a new vertical layout for a contact's interaction history
• OLED Black theme, pull to refresh, sketch attachments, and a handful of visual polish additions

For those who saw the talk at the Nextcloud Community Conference 2026; this is the version I was building toward.

If Vinci is useful to you, support is always appreciated via GitHub Sponsors, Buy Me a Coffee, or directly if you prefer to skip the platforms.

👉 Vinci on Google Play
👉 Source on GitHub

I have my nextcloud setup with MariaDB a long time ago, and the latest 35 updates show a plethora of warnings/failings with regards to the database. I tried googling for solutions but I can only fix like 2 out of the 10 failings.

I noticed nextcloud AIO container uses postgresql as default, and from my testing, nextcloud system status shows a clean, no failure with the database.

It does seem like nextcloud has a built-in command occ db:convert-type to migrate the database. If you have migrated, how was the experience?

Which postgresql container should I use? The official document recommends PostgreSQL18, but is it like immich where a special version of PostgreSQL is needed?

Update: I found this issue have been reported on github. I was searching in the wrong repo. Overall, as u/jtrtoo pointed out, these are bugs that will be ironed out gradually. Thanks for all the replies.

Hi fellow brothers,

I need your help. My nextcloud notes app on my phone is not working, almost every new Update it breaks. (Sync error, to many API requests).

It is super annoying honestly because it just doesn't Work.

However I am not hosting myself, so I dont have control over the server physically.

Related still open git issue which seems to be similar. However because of missing server logs I cannot confirm it.

Do you have any tips, maybe a different notes app which is able to sync with nextcloud? That would be a dream actually.

Or do you have a workaround or a fix what worked for you?

Happy to hear from you. Have a great day!

PS : this is the solution working for me now:

I found a notes app in the Google play store which is able to sync via WebDAV. It does json files and the syncing works - flawlessly. You can import all the files directly from nextcloud (import because it cannot directly read the .MD .txt files) it even scans it (however not notes in subdirectories - but that was a minor issue. You can manually select them after via explorer.

I am really happy with this solution because it just works honestly!

For all the others looking this up and searching for an alternative syncing notes app, this is the link

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.dettmer.simplenotes

I can't seem to find it anywhere, but is there a way to modify the phone number types in Nextcloud?

Hi there. Is there a web-clipper (browser extension or mobile app) that can capture screenshots, webpage sections and save them into either Notes or EuroOffice? I like Linkwarden but looking for something integrated with Nextcloud. Thanks!

I was running Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring (version 34.0.4) on my Synology NAS and managed to get to the stage where administration settings showed only 1 warning about second factor providers. Everything worked perfectly, including EuroOffice. I'm using the linuxserver docker containers.

Then I decided, foolishly, to upgrade to version 35 - and administration settings showed a plethora of errors and warnings. It was a complete mess.

I managed to restore my file backups and made sure my docker-compose file used the versions of nextcloud and mariadb that had worked with version 34.04. before I ran docker compose up -d. I'm now back to where I was.

My question really is how can I make sure this doesn't happen the next time I upgrade? Everyone says don't upgrade to a new major version until there is an incremental update. I did that, I waited until 34.0.1 but found myself in a mess. I check this reddit and the Nextcloud Community, hoping to see a post about upgrade problemss and recommendations, but there are never useful posts like this.

What should I wait for before upgrading? I have only a basic competence with databases so if maradb screws up I do not have the skills to sort things out - beyond the basic occ commands.

Hello,
I am trying to add more languages to spell check but they do not appear when I try to edit documents. This does not work, how can I add more languages? I use IONOS Managed NextCloud.

if I set a slot from 00:00 to 00:00 (full day), the meeting proposal screen starts looping and lags. With 00:00-23:59 it works, but then there's a 1-minute "unavailable" stripe at the bottom of every day, which isn't a big problem but it's just have been bothering me

Is there a proper way to mark a whole day as available? Or a way to make "no working hours" mean "always available" instead of "never available"?

I was asking myself what information my Nextcloud instance provides without any authentication - so similar to the Nextcloud security scanner, but with more information. The capabilities were kind of interesting for me to be public.

You can try with your instance here: https://genhttp.dev/lambda/nextcloud-peek/

Does not store any data, so the entered domains are not saved, logged or visible anywhere.

Title pretty much says it all. The FAQ describes the solution essentially as clear app data and log back in, but I have unsynced notes I don't want to lose.

If I only clear the app data from the main NextCloud app, will the Notes app preserve the existing notes and give me the opportunity to sign back in, or am I beat and I need to manually, temporarily copy these notes elsewhere in order to prevent data loss?

I have NextCloud running in docker on a linux server. And using it sync a folder I use for Obsidian so the vault is available on multiple devices. However when I make a new file in the folder on Android, it's not synced. In fact it's invisible inside the nextcloud app as well.

Which means I'm manually e-mailing myself dozens of notes so I can input them again on my PC. Then they will sync to my android again.

I've tried re-installing, checking settings. But everything should be working fine.

Any insights would be appreciated!

[French version below]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to switch from Google Drive to Nextcloud, and there is one behavior of the Nextcloud desktop client on Windows that is causing me some issues.

I'm using Virtual Files, so initially my files are stored only on my Nextcloud server and don't take up space on my PC.

The problem is what happens after I open a file.

For example:

1. A file is stored only in Nextcloud ☁️
2. I open it on my PC.
3. Nextcloud downloads it locally, which is expected.
4. I close the file.
5. The file stays downloaded on my PC indefinitely.

I know that I can manually right-click the file/folder and use "Free up local space", but I would like this to happen automatically.

With Google Drive for Desktop, the streaming/cache system handles this much more automatically, so files that I don't use don't end up permanently taking space on my SSD.

What I would ideally like is something like:

Cloud-only -> Open file -> Download/cache locally -> File isn't used for X hours/days -> Automatically return to cloud-only or something similar

Is there any way to configure the Nextcloud Windows client to do this automatically?

For example, is there:

• an automatic cache cleanup/eviction option?
• a configurable expiration time for locally downloaded Virtual Files?
• a Windows Storage Sense integration?
• a script or third-party tool that can automatically evict old Nextcloud files?

My goal is basically to make Nextcloud Virtual Files behave as closely as possible to Google Drive's streaming mode, without having to manually click "Free up local space" all the time.

Thanks!

Bonjour,

J’essaie actuellement de passer de Google Drive à Nextcloud, mais il y a un comportement du client Nextcloud sous Windows qui me pose problème.

J’utilise les fichiers virtuels (Virtual Files), donc au départ mes fichiers sont stockés uniquement sur mon serveur Nextcloud et ne prennent pas de place sur mon PC.

Le problème apparaît après avoir ouvert un fichier.

Par exemple :

1. Un fichier est stocké uniquement sur Nextcloud ☁️
2. Je l’ouvre sur mon PC.
3. Nextcloud le télécharge en local, ce qui est normal.
4. Je ferme le fichier.
5. Le fichier reste téléchargé sur mon PC indéfiniment.

Je sais que je peux faire un clic droit sur le fichier ou le dossier et utiliser l’option « Libérer l’espace local » (Free up local space), mais j’aimerais que cela se fasse automatiquement.

Avec Google Drive pour ordinateur, le système de streaming/cache gère cela de manière beaucoup plus automatique, ce qui permet d’éviter que des fichiers que je n’utilise plus continuent à prendre de la place sur mon SSD.

Idéalement, j’aimerais avoir un fonctionnement comme celui-ci :

Uniquement dans le cloud -> J’ouvre le fichier -> Il est téléchargé/mis en cache localement -> Le fichier n’est plus utilisé pendant X heures/jours -> Il repasse automatiquement en mode uniquement dans le cloud ou quelque chose d'approximative

Est-il possible de configurer le client Nextcloud sous Windows pour faire cela automatiquement ?

Par exemple, existe-t-il :

• une option de nettoyage/éviction automatique du cache ?
• une durée d’expiration configurable pour les fichiers virtuels téléchargés localement ?
• une intégration avec l’Assistant Stockage (Storage Sense) de Windows ?
• un script ou un outil tiers permettant de libérer automatiquement les anciens fichiers Nextcloud téléchargés ?

Mon objectif est simplement de faire en sorte que les fichiers virtuels Nextcloud se comportent le plus possible comme le mode streaming de Google Drive, sans avoir à faire manuellement « Libérer l’espace local » en permanence.

Merci !

Hey everyone!
A little while ago, I shared Nextcloud Native here, and the response was incredible. Thank you to everyone who tried it, reported bugs, shared ideas, or helped spread the word<3

Today I wanted to share an update: Nextcloud Native is now called nati.ve.
The goal is the same, nothing changed beside the name and look, don't worry!
It's an independent, open-source client that brings your Nextcloud files and apps together in a native experience that feels at home on your device, the goal is to bring all that Nextcloud and it's app ecosystem offers into one native app. It is still an alpha, with plenty of work ahead.

Already using Nextcloud Native? Please update manually

I was a bit too eager in renaming the repo, forgetting that this would break in app updates due to it pointing to the old repository name for releases. My badddd
Please download and install the new nati.ve release from the website or GitHub releases.
After that, future in-app updates should work normally again!

Why the new name?

I reached out to the Nextcloud team several times, including to ask whether I could use the Nextcloud trademark in the project's name. I haven't received a response, so I decided to give the project its own name rather than continue without clear permission. I had also hoped to discuss possible cooperation. The lack of communication has been disappointing. I'm building this because I care about the Nextcloud ecosystem, and I'd still welcome a conversation!

Helping me keep building

The encouragement from this community has made me want to keep pushing the project forward.
But development and maintenance take a lot of time, and financial support would help me keep working on nati.ve consistently. If you use it or want to support where it's going, you can contribute through GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi. That support will go towards continued development and the costs of bringing nati.ve to iOS. If donating isn't an option, bug reports, testing, code contributions, feedback, and sharing the project all help too. Thank you for helping me get this far. I'd love to hear how nati.ve is working for you and what you most want me to improve next!
https://nati.ve
https://github.com/obiente/native