Difficulty manually transferring files to NextCloud

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Dear all,
I’m trying to migrate my files from a samba server to nextcloud. I checked the folder permissions, but the database doesn’t contain the files, which is why it doesn’t show up on the web interface.

destination location
/var/www/nextcloud/data/myuser/files/personal_section

www-data permission checked www-data

I’ve already run the scan
su -s /bin/bash -c 'php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan myuser www-data
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Hello @Cosmo_Elton,

welcome to the Nextcloud community! :handshake:

this doesn’t look right. occ command must be started as webserveruser (-u www-data) and the directory to scan should be from the users point of view (username in the data directory). if in doubt user -all for first run.

we had this discussion often look at topics tagged file_permission or occ or server_migration

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Test the command from root:
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan --all

documentation

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sudo apt install php-smbclient → install the smbclient for nextcloud
Then go to Adminsection, External Memory → mount your Sambashares there with User, Passwort, Share, IP of your server.

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This is useful if you want to integrate SMB as external storage in Nextcloud. However, if you copy the files manually from SMB to /var/www/nextcloud/data/username/files, it is not necessary.

Only execute
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan --all
that Nextcloud database knows the new files in /var/www/nextcloud/data/username/files.

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my small note, to work with smb (Samba) in Nextcloud.
I´d multiple times, where nextcloud crashed. To avoid data-lose, I saved all data in smb. It´s my “best-practice”.

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Hello! @wwe

Sorry for my English (Google translator) is helping me.

I was able to execute the command according to the documentation.

I did exactly this (but I was unsuccessful!)

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan --all

command return

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan --all
sudo: could not resolve nextcloud machine: Unknown name or service

Starting scan for user 7 out of 48 (usuario-cmdo)
Starting scan for user 8 out of 48 (usuario-cs)
Starting scan for user 9 out of 48 (usuario-da)
Starting scan for user 10 out of 48 (usuario-do)
Starting scan for user 11 out of 48 (usuario-dt)
Starting scan for user 12 out of 48 (usuario-salc)
Starting scan for user 13 out of 48 (usuario-sp)

but I was unsuccessful!

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I’m sorry nobody can help you based on such questions. Does it mean it failed, didn’t index the files etc. Provide details, logs etc. occ has also -v argument for more verbose output which might help to understand the problem.

this looks very well - do this users have any files stored in the system? what happens if a user adds new file through the web interface - do you see it on the storage? → if not you are looking in a wrong place.

it looks you are struggling with basic admin tasks - please look at 101: Self-hosting information for beginners and start learning required skills or switch to “managed Nextcloud” in case you want a solution which simply works.

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I think so but I’ll keep trying