How to delete old .part files

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Hi, today I found out that on my filesystem I have lots of old (three year old) Filename.ocTransfer.part files. It seems that this was fro the time when I was setting up my Nextcloud again and all my uses were uploading files using the Desktop App.

How can I delete them?

I already run a occ:files cleanup but they did not go away.

So my questions are:
How can I delete them? Just a normal delete command on filesystem area? Or do I need to delete them from the database as well?

I am using NC 31.0.7 on Debian 12.

2

yes, that will suffice followed by occ files:scan --all

3

OK, then I have one more question:

I remember that in the past it was said when running a occ files:scan all existing shares will be obsolete. I am having lots of shared files and folders - do the remain when running a occ files scan or are they getting lost?

4

That is definitely not the case.

If something like that were to happen after running occ files:scan --all, there must definitely have been other issues in play there. Under normal circumstances, such a scan should be completely safe to perform.

5

specify the path to be scanned files:scan --path="/alice/files/Documents possibly you can specify files to scan '*.part'… but I’m not 100% sure.

see usage: occ files:scan --help

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6

So I was now just checking the database:

SELECT *
FROM `oc_filecache`
where name like '%.part'
LIMIT 50

does not reply any files, so the .part files are not indexed and can be safely removed without need to scan the complete datafolder, right?

7

assuming this is correct… it appears .part files are temporary download chunk files that have no DB reference