Change file permissions for files created in Nextcloud

Fredrik_Burmester · February 26, 2019, 8:43am

I need to change the default permissions for files created in Nextcloud since I want to access these files elsewhere.

I’m using External Storage to add a local drive to Nextcloud. SMB is not an option since this is much slower in my experience.

Any help is appreciated!

gas85 · February 26, 2019, 12:03pm

Direct access is not the way how NC is working. You should use WebDav (what is more slower as SMB). Otherwise you can set some local folder as External Storage and give NC access to it --> https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/15/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage_configuration_gui.html#adding-files-to-external-storages

Do not forget that you have to re scan changes periodically (otherwise folder will be re scanned only by direct web access). Command to do this is: sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all

This command will rescan whole NC installation together with all internal and external files, so I wrote a script to do external storage rescan only:

github.com

GAS85/nextcloud_scripts/blob/master/nextcloud-file-sync.sh

#!/bin/bash

# By Georgiy Sitnikov.
#
# Will do external ONLY shares rescan for nextcloud and put execution information in NC log.
# If you would like to perform WHOLE nextcloud rescan, please add --all to command, e.g.:
# ./nextcloud-file-sync.sh --all
#
# AS-IS without any warranty

# Adjust to your NC installation
	# Your NC OCC Command path
COMMAND=/var/www/nextcloud/occ
	# Your NC log file path
LOGFILE=/var/www/nextcloud/data/nextcloud.log
	# Your log file path for other output if needed
CRONLOGFILE=/var/log/next-cron.log
	# If you want to perform cache cleanup, please change CACHE value to 1
CACHE=0
	# Your PHP location

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Read more about this script under this tread: Automate OCC Filescan