# Migrating from ownCloud to Nextcloud

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/migrating-from-owncloud-to-nextcloud/551>\
**Category:** 📑 How to\
**Tags:** owncloud, oc\_migration\_issue\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 12:27pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/migrating-from-owncloud-to-nextcloud/551 "2016-06-14T12:27:39Z")\
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> [@schandmaennchen](#):
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> To the Nextcloud Team: What is the current strategy here: Do I have to stop updating Owncloud and then wait until Nextcloud supports the migration to the outdated Owncloud version or are there any plans to support an migration from a current release?

That’s the only strategy for similar internal versions of NC and OC (NC 12 and OC 10). For NC 13, this should be easier and a bit less dependend on the actual version. However, the migration app requires a specific migration path to be added.  
For NC 13, the best is to ask a migration path in the repo of the migration tool:

> **[Issues · nextcloud/owncloud-web-migrator](https://github.com/nextcloud/owncloud-web-migrator/issues?q=is%3Aopen%2Bis%3Aissue)**
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> Tool to migrate your ownCloud to Nextcloud. Contribute to nextcloud/owncloud-web-migrator development by creating an account on GitHub.

Keep in mind that NC 13 has been released this week and a couple of things probably need to be fixed before handling the migration stuff. I’d schedule a migration to NC 13.0.1 mid-March ([https://github.com/nextcloud/server/wiki/Maintenance-and-Release-Schedule](https://github.com/nextcloud/server/wiki/Maintenance-and-Release-Schedule)).

If you want to test migration and check for problems before, I’d use a small test setup with similar config to your real setup. Manual migration should work (like a manual major upgrade: delete everything but the `config` and `data` folder, place code from NC 13, fix permissions and run `occ upgrade` from terminal).

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