Background: My Nextcloud installation is in docker on a Mac. I know nothing about cron.
I can manually open Terminal and execute this to update my external storage files:
docker exec --user www-data -it nextcloud-aio-nextcloud php occ files:scan --all
But for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to schedule it to run periodically. I have seen posts mentioning cron and launchd, but I can’t find anything that explains it step by step. Can someone please explain it to me like I’m an idiot?
Please familiarize yourself with the technology you use. good starting point is 101: Self-hosting information for beginners
step by step tutorials are waste of time - technology changes fast and it is very hard to keep such tutorial up to date - but once you learn what your are doing adding a cron job is peace of cake..
PS: if you need periodic files:scan your business process is broken and you should look how to fix it.
Thanks. But the Nextcloud documentation explicitly suggests setting up a cron job to run files:scan when you are using external storage, which is exactly the use case I described in my original post. So perhaps my business process is not broken.
I’m simply asking for help getting that set up…