I am not a developer and this is a suggestion based on what happened to me. I created a Nextcloud instance with 12 people gave them all usernames that was just their name ‘John Smith’ As a result I cannot now mention them in comments as they do not appear, so I can’t do @John Smith - it doesn’t wo…

[image] wisdomlight: occ files:transfer-ownership No super expert here… Mainly windows user who’s been having to learn this as I go along. root@nextcloud:~# sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:transfer-ownership USER1 USER2 Validating quota Analysing files of USER1… 0 [->--…

What happens if you rename the user (in the user editor). Use a . or _ between first & last names. I would test with just one user first. Scratch that… Looks like there’s no way to rename. You need to create new then transfer data. See this link Rename user account / move user data

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Lol you linked to my other post. Thank you.

Hi Thank you for the info. The post you linked provides a command line that does not work on my system NextCloudPi version v1.34.7 NextCloudPi image NextCloudPi_09-05-20 distribution Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 \n \l it produces error pi@nextcloudpi:~ $ php -u www-data php occ files:trans…

[image] Rename user account / move user data ℹ️ Support I guess it should be sudo -u www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10

also when changing the -u into either with or without -a here’s the error pi@nextcloudpi:~ $ sudo php www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10 Could not open input file: www-data

@wisdomlight please read this: [image] Rename user account / move user data ℹ️ Support I guess it should be sudo -u www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10

Rename user account / move user data sudo -u www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10 pi@nextcloudpi:~ $ sudo -u www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10 gives this error Could not open input file: www-data

Have you noticed the difference between: pi@nextcloudpi:~ $ sudo php www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10 and pi@nextcloudpi:~ $ sudo -u www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10 ?

This is the original suggestion from the link posted above php -u www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership <source-user> <destination-user> But it produced an error you suggested the below sudo -u www-data php occ files:transfer-ownership Sherab1 Sherab10 But it also produced error. Now you…

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