I have scoured the forums and am surprised to find only a couple of people reporting issues similar to mine, and no “solution” seems to help.
The issue is as follows; Virtual Files just does not work.
What happens: Everything looks fine in the client. Under the “Virtual file sync” tab there is a nice green tick saying “All synced!” No errors in the logs.
However in Finder, if navigating to Nextcloud in locations, there is nothing, just a small message saying “Nextcloud” is signed out. Clicking sign in will crash finder.
Also trying to access the folder via the terminal ; ls ~/Library/Cloudstorage/Nextcloud-… gives an error :“ls: fts_read: Operation not permitted”
I have tried making sure the “standard file sync” is completely disabled
I have tried reinstalling the client many times, including purging all com.nextcloud.desktopetc directories.
Maybe a couple of points that could be relevant although I find no errors related to this:
My nextcloud install uses a self-signed certificate (Its fine, I dont expose anything outside my local network)
I do use a FQDN but resolving to a local network IP (again, I dont expose anything externally)
I also use the external storage extension in Nextcloud. Most files are on an external NAS.
Versions:
Nextcloud server: Nextcloud Hub 9 30.0.5 - running on Ubuntu with snap
MacOS nextcloud desktop client: 3.15.3 with vfs
I have the same problem, with some additional remarks.
I have two servers in my list. One that somehow works and the other one with the same behaviour that you describe.
In the menu, the nexcloud icon shows the “pause” sign. When I mouse-over it says “Account synchronisation disabled”.
After reboot, I always have to select “Resume sync for all”, but this does not change the menu icon.
Even if I only keep one of the two servers in my list, the pause icon stays in the menu.
For the one that somehow works, sync is not reliable. Only after restart, it executes the changes.
The one that is not working is running NextCloud Hub 8 and the one that is somehow working I saying its 30.0.5 Enterprise.
if your Nextcloud ist not available via DNS with a valid FQDN incl. encryption it will be virtually unusable and neither IOS nor Android clients will be able to connect and sync.
Exact same issue here. Green checkmark but unable to do anything with nextcloud in Finder, also crashes finder when I click sign in.
I am hosting Nextcloud on Truenas Scale and have it publically accessible via Cloudflare Tunnel. Works perfectly on my phone, not on the Mac unfortunately.