External Storage - modified time keeps changing

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.10)
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • UNRAID 7
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • YES
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • ~3 weeks ago
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • AIO

Summary of the issue you are facing:

I have a folder called pictures attached via “External storage” to my nextcloud.
It’s a folder managed by Unraid on the same server as nextcloud runs.

3 Weeks a go I saw that nextcloud desktop clients start to re-sync over and over aigan the this exact External storage folder.
When I check the External storage on the nextcloud web I can see that sometime the modifed data is correct (the same as when I “ls” the folder within the unraid server) sometimes it is completly off.
Sometimes the External storage folder is even empty and after a few minutes the folders inside the picture folder is populated again.
it is really random I can’t figure out why
The external storage folder can be accessed via SMB without any problem however nextcloud seems to have a problem handling the folder. It contains around 120’000 files.

Any Idea why this does now happen?

Andy

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You are not writing which client you are using to sync your pictures? IOS, Android, Windows, Linux?

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I use one Windows client and 2 Linux clients.
So on those 3 PCs regardless of OS it behaves like this. Its most likely not a client issue since I wrote that when I check nextcloud directly from the browser I can see that folders in the SMB attached external storage do disappear and reappear at random time.

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ok i will open a bug report for this since it worked for several years but stopped working 4 weeks ago