I am working on a very small software project and when I save a file (the only file in that directory), Nextcloud often seems to feel that the version stored on the server is newer than the version I just stored and makes the newest version a conflict file and reverts to the server version, which can be very damaging if I am not aware of it. I have not found many people describing this problem (one I did find was "Single user file conflicts on every save/change").

So, just to make it clear, I am the only person editing that file, which is not shared ! ! In fact, I am the only user on the system.

A similar problem occurs when I rename a file, where the file often reappears with the old filename. I have even seen a few cases where a deleted file was resurrected from the server instead of getting deleted there too.

The problem has been persistent across at least one but more likely a couple of Nextcloud versions and is driving me even more bonkers than I already am. If I do not find a solution, I cannot see how I can keep using Nextcloud as this is just too irritating as well as a disaster in waiting.

My setup is Nextcloud Client on a Debian laptop to a Debian firewall with nginx that redirects to a Raspbian machine with Nextcloud server (13) on a MariaDB database. I originally used SQLite3 but changed to MariaDB because of these problems. I can see that the setup described in the referenced link is similar to mine, so maybe nginx or the Raspberry Pi (or the combination) constitute the problem. Unfortunately I have limited free time to inverstigate the problem and would therefore love to hear if anyone has some ideas.

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@scottalanmiller Thanks. I will try upgrading to the latest version.

@JaredBusch & @scottalanmiller: Thank you for your response.

I'll probably have to throw some beefier hardware after it then as other suggestions I have received do not seem to apply to my case. I had hoped the RPis would be enough as I have managed to get rid of most of the old "big iron" and replaced it with RPis (web server, mail server, backup server, home server, security server, ...).

I had seen a post somewhere that the shift from SQLite to MariaDB should improve the stability for multi-user access and found it provided a slight improvement in performance as well — slightly surprising, I agree.

I know this is difficult, but do you have any sugestion as to the processor power and RAM needed for a stable Nextcloud installation with light use, mostly single-user access? I am seriously trying to avoid installing a "proper" server again for space and power consumption reasons. (The RPis are in fact installed in friend's basement as his internet connection has a fixed IP address.)

@StrongBad I use Nextcloud to automatically save essential files on my computers, giving me seamless access to these files from my other computers. Very rarely are two computers turned on at the same time but it provides me with some convenience when I change from one computer to the other — and sometimes the web access to Nextcloud proves a life-saver ( well, not literally  ) when I need access to files when I am out and about without access to my own laptop or for quickly sharing files.

It is not used as a repository for my source code.

@scottalanmiller & @dafyre: That was my first idea, but all the computers are within milliseconds of each other as best I can measure, thanks to NTP — and I do expect that Nextcloud can accept a clock difference that is in the same order of magnitude as the package latency over the network or even less.

I am working on a very small software project and when I save a file (the only file in that directory), Nextcloud often seems to feel that the version stored on the server is newer than the version I just stored and makes the newest version a conflict file and reverts to the server version, which can be very damaging if I am not aware of it. I have not found many people describing this problem (one I did find was "Single user file conflicts on every save/change").

So, just to make it clear, I am the only person editing that file, which is not shared ! ! In fact, I am the only user on the system.

A similar problem occurs when I rename a file, where the file often reappears with the old filename. I have even seen a few cases where a deleted file was resurrected from the server instead of getting deleted there too.

The problem has been persistent across at least one but more likely a couple of Nextcloud versions and is driving me even more bonkers than I already am. If I do not find a solution, I cannot see how I can keep using Nextcloud as this is just too irritating as well as a disaster in waiting.

My setup is Nextcloud Client on a Debian laptop to a Debian firewall with nginx that redirects to a Raspbian machine with Nextcloud server (13) on a MariaDB database. I originally used SQLite3 but changed to MariaDB because of these problems. I can see that the setup described in the referenced link is similar to mine, so maybe nginx or the Raspberry Pi (or the combination) constitute the problem. Unfortunately I have limited free time to inverstigate the problem and would therefore love to hear if anyone has some ideas.