Nextcloud 25.0.2
Rocky Linux 9
PHP 8.0.20
Mariadb 10.5.16
Apache 2.4.53
Nextcloud Windows Client 3.6.5
Due to a need to support PHP 8, I just migrated from ownCloud to nextCloud 25.0.2. I plan to upgrade to .3 shortly.
Nextcloud is a great product. It works well.
However, I am unable to get the nextCloud Windows client to stop complaining about filenames that contain a colon in the name:
File names containing the character β:β are not supported on this file system
The files in questions are screenshots, originating from my Ubuntu workstation.
Yeah, I get it. NTFS does not support filenames with a colon in the name. To prevent these files from syncing to my Windows client, I added the following ignore file pattern to the windows client app without the quotes: β*:*β.
Unfortunately, this does not work. Each morning when I power on my Windows laptop, I am greeted with the same file sync errors.
I think the ignore files are more for temporary folders or cache-files on your local system that you donβt want to sync to the server.
There is a longer topic (with many referenced topics) on the bug tracker of the client:
Thanks for the pointer! I see this is a long standing issue.
I just noticed that the files on my system causing the issue, were very old screenshots from my Ubuntu desktop, dating back to 2015. Recent versions of Ubuntu use a hyphen, instead of a colon, for screenshot filenames.
Knowing it was unlikely new files would be created containing a colon in the filename, I bulk replaced the colon with a hyphen, in all the files causing the issue.