Chrissi55, thnx for your post. I have an update. I made the php.ini change and got a problem when i updated to nextcloud version 26.0.1 covered in the link below,
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/missing-index-error-after-installing-nextcloud-26-01-update/160871
Do you think my missing index error is related to the change to my php.ini file? Any advice welcome from anybody in the community.