Desktop App Crashing on XFCE when Syncing to External Drive

📱 Desktop & mobile clients
1

I am running Linux Mint 22.1 with XFCE. The desktop app (whether the appimage from the nextcloud site 4.0.x or the repo version 3.11.0) crashes whenever I begin syncing to the new external drive on the client side I need to sync to.

Somethings to note:

-this worked on the same drive last year, but after my raspberry pi server died, I took a while to setup anew

-it worked initially and synced but then crashed and despite purging everything (not data) and restarting it consistently crashes immediately when I attempt to sync there

-it will, however, sync a small test file elsewhere, but not on the external drive (despite initially and previously syncing there with no change to settings).

I must sync to external due to limited SSD size. Help?

2

To which of both devices the external drive is connected? Not clear what you have connected to what. Is the external drive connected to Mint 22.1 or raspberry pi server?

3

Sorry:

Pi is nextcloud server (also with external hard drive)

Mint 22.1 laptop is a client connected to external drive that now (but not previously) crashes as soon as syncing nextcloud to the external drive.

4

Define “crash”. What specifically happens?

5

It locks up, won’t respond, and needs to be killed to exit the app.