# I plan to break my system.. why do you say I shouldn't?

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/i-plan-to-break-my-system-why-do-you-say-i-shouldnt/157673>\
**Category:** ℹ️ Support\
**Created:** [March 12, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/i-plan-to-break-my-system-why-do-you-say-i-shouldnt/157673 "2023-03-12T16:23:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wwe/32/72963_2.png) [@wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wwe)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/i-plan-to-break-my-system-why-do-you-say-i-shouldnt/157673/2 "2023-03-12T20:49:20Z")

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hello @celestial welcome to the forum 🤝

**I split your post from [File upload by user does not have group write permission while upload/create](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/file-upload-by-user-does-not-have-group-write-permission-while-upload-create/145844) into separate thread so people can discuss the root cause.**

I understand your requirement but I don’t think this fits good into the application support forum for the reasons I explain below.

> [@celestial](#):
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> Thank you, was getting sad seeing people saying " **must not temper with Nextclouds files**" over and over.
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> Either “you don’t support”, or “you support it, but there is a recommended way to do it”. It’s an open source software, not enterprise locked in software. People have lots of reasons that they may not want to follow exactly the intended use of the software, but that should be ok.  
> Such an attitude isn’t, either "you shouldn’t do … but … " or “It isn’t built to support that, so I don’t know how to change it …” would have been a much better attitude.

as you say Nextcloud is **open source** which allows you to use as **you want** (respecting OSS license). If **you** do something _the software is not built for_ or you are unhappy with the limitations - **feel free to improve**. but don’t ask for support in this forum - where people like me spend their spare time to help users with valuable requests. If **you want** and **you know how** nothing prevents you from braking your instance - but again if you do so - don’t come back and complain about data loss, missing functionality and ask for support to recover your system.

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