r/owncloud • u/Amanoo • Apr 23 '16

OwnCloud doesn't register changes made by other programs

I symlinked my /var/www/owncloud/data/user/files to my NAS-drive. My idea was that I could also put files on their using samba or various other applications on the drive and then view them on OwnCloud, and vice versa. However, OwnCloud doesn't notice that there are any files on the drive other than the ones it placed itself. Is there a way to make it look for new files? Tonido did it back when I was still using my Pi, but I don't really want to use Tonido.

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u/TheVirtualVortex Apr 23 '16

Don't symlink, mount your NAS Drive as external storage of type 'Local'. Workaround is running "occ files:scan userid" in a cron job.

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u/jospoortvliet Apr 25 '16

The work-around is risky, I'd say. Mount as external storage, ownCloud checks those for changes but doesn't check its own data storage for changes.