.ocdata file issues

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The issue you are facing:

Error
Your data directory is invalid.

Ensure there is a file called ".ocdata" in the root of the data directory.

When opening local site or no site at all when opening live site.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Change location of data directory to external drive
  2. open Local IP or rpiserver.sytes.net

The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):

I cant find this file. I found it once and changed the data folder location but I can't find it now.

I used an online tutorial and switched the location of my data folder. I dont have a link to it but I changed the required line in the config.php file and gave snap access to my media folder.

sudo -u www-data touch /path/to/nextcloud/data/.ocdata

or

sudo touch /path/to/nextcloud/data/.ocdata; sudo chown www-data:www-data /path/to/nextcloud/data/.ocdata

Hello, I forgot to add it in my post but I already had an .ocdata file in the data folder.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 13 20:47 .ocdata

And I still get the same error

Ah. But it is owned by root and not www-data.

sudo chown www-data:www-data /path/to/nextcloud/data/.ocdata

Done, but I still get the same error?

Restart apache and php