Hello!
I’ve been using NC for a few years now and am very happy with it. Now, after years of using only Linux systems, I tried to set up synchronization with Windows 11 desktop client. Now I’m wondering if it’s normal that the desktop client has moved all my files and folders to the cloud.
In fact, there doesn’t seem to be a single local file in the two synchronized document folders. All I can see are links to the files stored on the server. This is not how I wanted to use NC. I want to have locally stored files on my laptop and synchronized files on the server.
That’s what I did: before I set up the new Windows system, I synchronized the files between the NC server and my local laptop. Then I copied all the relevant data from the local system to an external hard disk. I installed Windows, copied the files to the new Windows installation and installed a new NC Desktop Sync app. Before I activated the sync routines, I deleted the sync configuration files from the old Linux installation. The first sync process on the new system went quite quickly, which was not surprising as the local and server data should be identical.
After finishing, the local file structure was okay, but all my local datas are gone, and I can’t find any settings to prevent this in the NC app.
Does anybody has a clue how I can get my local files back?
Thanks a lot, merry Chrismas, and many greetings,
Jan
