Memories app: regex not accepted in flow

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I’ve installed the Memories app and it shows nicely. I do have however several .avi movies/files, that do not show. I found on the forum / documentation these need to be converted to mp4 (or similar) supported format.
I have installed ffmpeg and aim to use the ‘on the fly’ conversion by using a flow to convert the media.

While creating the flow, I get an error the Regex expression I enter to match any file ending with .avi is invalid. I did check the regex with a (external) validator and there it shows as a valid expression.

Expression used : /.*(?i).avi$/gm

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x): Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.6)
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04): Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25): Apache/2.4.58
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2): none
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3): 8.3.1
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No): Yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start? At first use
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.): Bare metal
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No): No

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Go to Flows
  2. Click ‘Convert Media - New Flow’
  3. Enter the regex and other fields and try to save.
  4. You will notice unable to save due to regex invalid
2

I’m personally not using the Flow app but have understood that some prerequisites are required to get the app running as described here:

3

Thanks for your swift response.

Isn’t Flow by default installed/active in recent NextCloud releases? I’ve seen the Flow menu entry right from the initial install. Only after installing Memories I started to make use of flows.

4

That might be possible but I don’t believe that external components, like Python and Windmill, etc. are include by default.