How can I see who uploaded or created a file?

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We want to see who uploaded or created all files in shared folders. Is there a plugin for this maybe? I appreciate the help!

The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x): 28.0.14
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    Digital Ocean Droplet (unknown detaIls)
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    Apache unknown version
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    nginx unknown version
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    unknown
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    forever
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    Digital Ocean managed
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    ModSecurity

Summary of the issue you are facing:

We want to see who uploaded or created all files in shared folders.

2

Unfortunately, I cannot answer your primary question, but I recommend to update your installation soon, because you are running an unsupported environment.

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3

Thanks, yeah it’s on my todo list for this month.

4

You can activate the daily summary mail and there you will get the info who and which files

5

Unfortunately we have thousands of existing files that we need to see details for, so the email method won’t scale well for our need, but thanks!

6

Unfortunately, I don’t know what you want to do with the large amount of data at the end. But maybe you can activate the Auditing / Logging app. Maybe you’ll find something there. But to see anything at all in the end, you can probably combine it with Grafana Loki, see here. I don’t know if you have a file overview of changes. I do not use it. I see things differently: Whoever is authorised is authorised … I have backups for everything else …

Perhaps it makes sense for you to have several group folders / team folders to which you then assign groups of write users and groups of read-only users in order to better control the write permissions.

7

It looks like the activity log will cover our needs, I appreciate everybody’s help on this!