@kyrofa Thanks!
Its the bumbling along, not really knowing what Iām doing but learning along the way that I find most fun, thatās why doing it all again is no problem
Although running sudo chown -R root:root /media/usb
& sudo chmod -R 750 /media/usb/
gave me access to the files, the client would not sync and Nextcloud repeatedly stopped so I redid the transfer of the files to my external disk etc:
First, I
- Deleted the external disk āexternal storageā on the Web Interface
- Deleted the Folder Sync connections in the Client
- Physically connected the external disk to my laptop with a USB cable,
- Deleted my files from the external disk,
Then I:
- Re-transferred my files over to the external disk from my laptop NB making sure to use
cp -rp
so that then the desktop client worked properly and didnāt flag up false changes - Re-ran
sudo nextcloud.occ files:scan --path="<Nextcloud user_id>/files/<name given to disk in Nextcloud>/<Directory of interest on external disk>"
- Ran
sudo chown -R root:root /media/usb
- Re-added the external disk as an external storage
- Re-added the Folder Sync connections in the Client
And now everything is working fine (fingers crossed!)
[ I did not need to run sudo chmod -R 750 /media/usb/
]