I’ve been running ownCloud since at least version 5.0, maybe earlier. I’ve gone through several upgrades over the years, and at some point around ownCloud 8 or 9 made the swap over to NextCloud on all of my own installations.
Here are my concerns and questions:
On a few of my desktop/laptop [Windows] machines, I’m still runing the ownCloud client, which works well I guess, but I want to switch those boxes over to Nextcloud.
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If I install the windows Nextcloud client, what will happen to my owncloud directory?
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Will it simply become my Nextcloud directory with a rename?
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Will this begin a full sync of my entire Nextcloud repo to a brand new Nexcloud directory, and if so, will it leave a duplicate of everything on my boxes in the old ownCloud directory?
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If I install the Nextcloud client, will the install process ‘see’ my ownCloud directory and simply use that when it replaces my ownCloud client?
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What’s the best, most painless way to proceed?
The reason I ask, or even care, is that I am currently on a very limited bandwidth connection via a WiFi hotspot on my cellphone. I only get 10GB a month without having to pay for more blocks of bandwidth, and frankly, cannot perform an upgrade at this time if I’m going to experience several GBs of syncing over a 4G cellphone connection.
I’m okay if the ownCloud directory isn’t renamed (couldn’t care less actually), but I’m not okay with everything re-syncing to create a whole new local repo.
What I’m hoping for is simply a seamless update from my desktop ownCloud client to a brand new shiny Nextcloud client where a while sync of everything in my cloud isn’t duplicated resulting in going over my monthly traffic constraints over my cell service plan.