Fatal Webdav Locked on a Hosted Nextcloud

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I’m trying to upload a rather large directory to my Nextcloud from a Windows Nextcloud client, but it frequently stops, telling me

Fatal webdav OCA\DAV\Connector\Sabre\Exception\FileLocked: HTTP/1.1 423 “file” is locked.

Then the client just stops, totally, after a while.

I then have to open a support ticked with my Nextcloud provider, to have them “flush the lock table”

WTF?

Question 1: why does this happen? I have a single client trying to upload and noone else is accessing. Even if someone was accessing, why does the lock happen at all? What is a lock? The file is a large 3Gio movie.

Question 2: this is a hosted Nextcloud server; I can’t be contacting them every time this happens

I’m confused. What do I do?

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Hi,
No solution, just a similar problem.
"Fatal webdav OCA\DAV\Connector\Sabre\Exception\FileLocked: "

Nextcloud server version : 12.0.3
Nextcloud client version : 2.3.2

This happens on rather large presentation( ODP) files, that I keep open for a rather long time (10 + hours).

What could be done to investigate / solve the problem ?

Thanks,
Camille

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I just wrote about the file locking here: Disable File Locking
Ask your web hoster, if he has a redis server available that your Nextcloud can use for locking
The locks should be flushed every 30 mins by cron job btw.

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Hi Michalng,

Thanks very much for the answer, I’ll look into it.

Camille