NextCloud: Scan local files into db

gjacobse

After rebuilding my NextCloud server, I created my users, groups and such. after finishing this, I used FileZilla to upload the files that I had backed up.

One problem: They don't show up in the available files for the User/Group. So, how can I fix this without having to delete and re-upload.

Using the occ Command

I found the page on using the occ command to be quite helpful, though the path is a tad off for my installation of Ubuntu, no issue though, as once I was in /var/www/html/ the command worked nicely.

root@TuDallasNC:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data php occ

Will return a nice list of command that can be used

root@TuDallasNC:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan
Please specify the user id to scan, --all to scan for all users or --path=...

Needs an extra switch to process correctly;

root@TuDallasNC:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all
Starting scan for user 1 out of 6 (User1)
Starting scan for user 2 out of 6 (User2)
Starting scan for user 3 out of 6 (User3)
Starting scan for user 4 out of 6 (User4)
Starting scan for user 5 out of 6 (User5)
Starting scan for user 6 out of 6 (Adminuser)
+---------+-------+--------------+
| Folders | Files | Elapsed time |
+---------+-------+--------------+
| 16      | 39    | 00:00:00     |
+---------+-------+--------------+

Files added to the db without having to re-upload them

gjacobse

As I was mainly looking to scan files and add them to the db, I didn't look at really any of the other occ command.

However, you can add,change,delete users via SSH this way also.

user
  user:add                            adds a user
  user:delete                         deletes the specified user
  user:disable                        disables the specified user
  user:enable                         enables the specified user
  user:info                           show user info
  user:lastseen                       shows when the user was logged in last time
  user:list                           list configured users
  user:report                         shows how many users have access
  user:resetpassword                  Resets the password of the named user
  user:setting                        Read and modify user settings

JaredBusch

I always assumed that occ stood for owncloud command

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in NextCloud: Scan local files into db:

I always assumed that occ stood for owncloud command

Me too.

black3dynamite

Why haven’t Nextcloud change occ to ncc?

JaredBusch

@black3dynamite said in NextCloud: Scan local files into db:

Why haven’t Nextcloud change occ to ncc?

The entire back in has never been changed

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in NextCloud: Scan local files into db:

Why haven’t Nextcloud change occ to ncc?

Would break scripts and stuff. Now sure, links, but that gets messy. OCC doesn't cause a problem, keeping it is the right thing.