Location of folders to be shared

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What would be the best place to store folders that will be shared with different groups of users? I used to create the folders and upload documents with an dedicated admin-account. But this puts the files in the ‘folder’ of this user and are considered as ‘Personal files’ of this user.
1.
data
—my folder
—someone else’s folder
—admin’s folder
------admin’s personal files and subfolders like Documents,Talks, …
------folder-to-be-shared-1
------folder-to-be-shared-2
2.
data
—my folder
—admin’s folder
—shared-folders
------folder-to-be-shared-3
------folder-to-be-shared-4

Any suggestions on how to create the second options?

Thanks,
Stefaan

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Hey @StefaanH,

welcome to the Nextcloud community! :handshake:

that largely depends on where the data to be shared is located. my opinion is to use the external storage app (Configuring External Storage (GUI) — Nextcloud latest Administration Manual latest documentation) which enables fine grained permission for groups, users, sharing etc and shares can be placed into the skeleton directory of all users with predefined paths.

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Hi @scubamuc, thanks for your reply :wink:

I’m working on a Synology NAS (with extra memory). So External Storage would allow me to create a file structure like this:

NAS

  • nas-data
    • nextcloud
      • data (new location)
      • shared (outside admin folder and outside docker
    • another apps data
    • more apps data
  • docker
    • nextcloud
      • config
        • data (current data location)
    • other docker container files

I think it would be a nice structured way to get all data in a location that can be backed up easily.

Thanks for your suggestion !

Kind Regards,

Stefaan

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The Teamfolders (formerly groupfolders) app.

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Thanks @jtr,

Not sure if this will help me locating the shared folders outside the Admin’s folder.

We don’t need complicated access for teams :wink:

I will have a closer look anyway?

Stefaan