Q: Is there a way to access files on Nextcloud by File Browser?

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#1

Is there a way to access files on Nextcloud by File Browser?

Installed successfully a Nextcloud account on the phone (Xperia 10 / SFOS 4.5.0.24) and creating a backup works. Backup is visible when checking the Nextcloud by computer, it’s in a directory ~/Sailfish OS/Backups/Xperia-10—Dual-SIM_somelettercombination/sailfish_backup_2024-07-28T10-04-04Z.tar.gz.

But I can see no way to simply upload some file (image, text, whatever…) to the Nextcloud server manually here and now (not timer-controlled/scheduled), and how to define a directory to be synchronized, that is accessible by File Browser.

Since installation of the Nextcloud account, there is a directory “Sync” visible" in the home directory, but copying a file into it does nothing. The file doesn’t appear on Nextcloud when checking with computer.

Did I forget something? What can I do to make it work?
Thanks for any help!

edit: in the Gallery app, images from cloud are visible.

edit: Gallery app has “Documents” as default for sharing with Nextcloud. Can be changed for one upload but will be not stored permanently. Next upload I have to change directory name again. What can I do to make Photos a permanent target and no more suggest Documents in Gallery app?

#2

For single file uploads and downloads the GhostCloud app works okay.

You can use rclone or davfs2 to mount an NC path somewhere, but that’s a bit involved and there is no GUI for that.

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#3

There might be better and less convoluted ways of going around, but this is my current setup for this purpose… in practice I need to pretty much always use the last ./nc.sh command because it wasn’t mounted after several network swaps anymore, so not ideal, but good enough for my usage :blush:

devel-su zypper install davfs2
mkdir ~/.davfs2 && mkdir ~/Nextcloud
devel-su cp -v /etc/davfs2/secrets ~/.davfs2/secrets
devel-su chown -v defaultuser:defaultuser ~/.davfs2/secrets
devel-su chmod -v 600 ~/.davfs2/secrets
vim ~/.davfs2/secrets

Append to this file:

/home/defaultuser/Nextcloud account@domain.extension Your-25-Digit-Password

devel-su vim /etc/fstab

Add this entry:

https://nextclouddomain.extension/remote.php/dav/files/account@domain.extension/ /home/defaultuser/Nextcloud davfs _netdev,user,rw,noauto 0 0

(it’s not auto-mounted to avoid startup issues without network, we’ll mount it later)

devel-su vim /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf

Uncomment and edit:

use_locks 0
cache_dir ~/.cache/davfs2 # per user cache
cache_size 128 # MiByte
dir_refresh 120 # seconds
delay_upload 20

Allow defaultuser to mount/unmount:

devel-su gpasswd -a defaultuser mount

Create a systemd unit file:

vim ~/.config/systemd/user/autostart-cmd.service

[Unit]
Description=Execute script with commands at startup
Requires=lipstick.service
After=lipstick.service

[Service]
Type=Oneshot
ExecStart=/home/defaultuser/.config/systemd/scripts/autostart-cmd.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=post-user-session.target

mkdir -v /home/defaultuser/.config/systemd/scripts/
vim /home/defaultuser/.config/systemd/scripts/autostart-cmd.sh

This rather convoluted script unmounts and remounts Nextcloud regardless of what state the mount is in:

#!/bin/sh

sleep 1 && sync /home/defaultuser/Nextcloud
sleep 1 && umount /home/defaultuser/Nextcloud
sleep 3 && fusermount -uz /home/defaultuser/Nextcloud
sleep 3 && rm /var/run/mount.davfs/home-defaultuser-Nextcloud.pid
sleep 20 && mount /home/defaultuser/Nextcloud

chmod +x -v /home/defaultuser/.config/systemd/scripts/autostart-cmd.sh
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable autostart-cmd.service
systemctl --user start autostart-cmd.service

And finally, to quickly restore the mount via the phones Terminal application with ./nc.sh:

ln -vs ~/.config/systemd/scripts/autostart-cmd.sh nc.sh

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#4

Cargo Dock works with nextcloud (just use the owncloud option and for path use ‘/remote.php/dav/files/username’), it has multi-select and can copy over folders

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#5

Meanwhile I’m sure that there is a login problem with the not working account and not a path problem. I have to clear with provider. As said, the other Nextcloud account (Hetzner) works.