Script to move someone else's shared folder

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Hello,
I’m about to share many folders with multiple users. I don’t want to clog their root folder with 10+ shares altogether. It would be a lot better if I could dispatch these shares into a couple of parent folders.

This:

** shared_folder1
** shared_folder3
** shared_folder15
** shared_folder26

Becomes this:

  • PARENT1
    ** shared_folder1
    ** shared_folder26
  • PARENT2
    ** shared_folder3
    ** shared_folder15

Is there a way to automate this process ? If yes, how ? APIs, SQL script ?
To clarify :
No I cannot share the PARENT folder directly because it contains subdirs that cannot be shared with these users.
No, I won’t use tags because these folder are mapped from a different server that doesn’t support tag sorting

2

Hey,

I always recommend this setting which puts all new shares into one defined folder:

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(at least the root folder doesn’t get cluttered with shares this way)

3

Thanks szaimen, this is interesting.
However, that only works if I need just one parent folder. Not good enough for me I’m afraid.

4

Otherwise, groupfolders are recommended to keep the folderstructure while sharing. But this unfortunately doesn’t solve your problem, either since the files do already exist outside of groupfolders in your example…

5

I found out this post, where there’s pretty much the same issue.
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/move-shared-file-automatically/55561
I’ll explore this, especially the SQL part.
By the way, is the db schema documented ?