I’m talking about deleting my Nextcloud account only! I tried to delete it and can’t and I’m the Admin. I want to delete my Nextcloud Account and create a new account.
for this reason I moved this posts out of the thread related to forum accounts - so don’t get anonymized by mistake.
You account lives in your docker image (and persistent data on the host). If you delete everything which belongs to to this container your installation will be gone and you can start from zero. with Docker you even can setup multiple stacks in parallel.. like me running 3 different installations on same system (test, dev and prod)
Yes, I realized that while our messages were crossing over each other, thank you!
So, essentially all I have to do is to delete/remove the Nextcloud images in the Container in Docker and that will delete my Nextcloud account so I can create a new Nextcloud Web UI Account? What about the Nextcloud Images that are in Portainer? Would they automatically be deleted /removed once the images were deleted from the Docker Container? or would I have to delete/remove those images separately?
I think you should familiarize yourself with Docker. you are using terms and technologies like Portainer, container and image without basic understanding.
you don’t need to delete images to kill your system. you can even create brand new account using occ without recreating your system.. but you should read and understand 101: Self-hosting information for beginners and 101: backup what and why (not how) before you continue and upload important data into the new shiny application to avoid data_loss
Disregard the first part of my previous message because I found out that the option to delete the Nextcloud Images is Greyed Out. I think the images have to be stopped first in Portainer before they can be deleted from the Docker Container.
The nextcloud-aio-nextcloud image is not typically deployed on its own; it’s part of the AIO (All-In-One) Nextcloud package. It’s more a “behind the scenes” used image. It’s usually orchestrated via nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer.
The nextcloud image is the community micro services image. It’s completely independent of AIO and essentially an alternative to it.
I find it unlikely you’re using both.
I was having issues deleting the nextcloud-aio-nextcloud image in Docker, It would not delete so I deleted the Docker App from my NAS and reinstalled Docker and the Official Nextcloud App for Docker again which blew away the previous one. I logged into my Nextcloud Web UI Interface. I have not tried to use the Command Line yet but I’m going to have to learn how because I want to enable the server-side encryption but I’m not going do this until I know how to get the commands like, encrypting, decrypting, disabling encryption, enabling encryption, back up and restore, backing up the encryption recovery key and more. I’m very familiar with writing scripts in windows and no so much with Linux scripting.
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I was having issues deleting the nextcloud-aio-nextcloud image in Docker, It would not delete so I deleted the Docker App from my NAS and reinstalled Docker and the Official Nextcloud App for Docker again which blew away the previous one. I didn’t lose any data by deleting Nextcloud because there was no data in there to lose and recreating the Docker image along with everything else that was in it was easy, I logged into my Nextcloud Web UI Interface. I have not tried to use the Command Line yet but I’m going to have to learn how because I want to enable the server-side encryption but I’m not going do this until I know how to get the commands like, encrypting, decrypting, disabling encryption, enabling encryption, back up and restore, backing up the encryption recovery key and more. I’m very familiar with writing scripts in windows and no so much with Linux scripting. I’ll check out the links you posted, thank you!
Glad to hear you found a way to solve the problem. You approach is right - before you start “productive” use of the system play and learn - read log, try upgrades (I often intentionally start installations with previous versions so I do at least one major upgrade for training) intentionally brake and try to recover, test backup and restore this helps in case of disaster.
BTW: as long you keep your data on the same system there is no advantage in server-side-encryption as the key remains there as well - if an attacker has access to the system it only a small step to extract the key as well.
Thank you, unfortunately until I learn how to successfully execute all the commands mentioned earlier I won’t benefit from using Nextcloud. And I also have to figure out how to get an SSL Certificate installed so I can get the benefits of using https. All of this is more complexed than I thought it would be. Doing all of that in Windows is easy, Linux is a whole other world. Unfortunately none of the replies resolved my issue. Thanks again for your help.