Finding the owner of a file

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 31

Summary of the issue you are facing:

A file or a folder was shared with me. How can I know its owner?

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Open a file or folder’s details

  2. Look for ownership

  3. Don’t find it

2

For me it shows directly in the web-interface (shared by and the user’s icon) on the right side where the date and size are shown.

Version 32.0.8.

You should update soon, this version’s support was dropped recently.

3

Isn’t that the sharer, who can be different from the owner?

4

Correct.

The “real” owner is unknown, the nextcloud.log displays, who created a file, as well the activity notification f.ex. by email.

The owner in the file system always is the name of the webserver-service (e.g. “www-data”)