# Update from 21.0.3 to 21.0.4 fails due to "Check for expected files"

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-from-21-0-3-to-21-0-4-fails-due-to-check-for-expected-files/122559>\
**Category:** ℹ️ Support\
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-from-21-0-3-to-21-0-4-fails-due-to-check-for-expected-files/122559 "2021-08-26T12:22:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Henning\_Brauwers](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/henning_brauwers/32/21984_2.png) [@Henning\_Brauwers](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Henning_Brauwers)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-from-21-0-3-to-21-0-4-fails-due-to-check-for-expected-files/122559/1 "2021-08-26T12:22:44Z")

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Hi ,  
I’m trying to upgrade my nextcloud from vers. 21.0.3 to 21.0.4 , however it fails pretty early in the process with the message “Check for expected files” and not only 1 but 9  
 ![Check Error](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/a/baf7b5809319d8fa19cb0c57d06101db75b255d6.png)  
Nextcloud is running on an server with Debian 10 / PHP 7.4 / and has been upgraded before several times without problems. The same question has been discussed here before but usually it was only 1 files in question.

Any idea whats going on ?

Tks  
Henning

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**Author:** ![Henning\_Brauwers](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/henning_brauwers/32/21984_2.png) [@Henning\_Brauwers](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Henning_Brauwers)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-from-21-0-3-to-21-0-4-fails-due-to-check-for-expected-files/122559/2 "2021-08-27T08:24:31Z")

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I was a bit confused by the term “extra files” and could not find any files. As a matter of fact the system was ref. to directories. Most of them not even empty. I moved them to another location and now the upgrade worked as planned.  
Question is now where these directories came from ?  
Anyway case closed for now  
Tks  
Henning

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**Author:** ![tflidd](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/tflidd/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@tflidd](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/tflidd)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-from-21-0-3-to-21-0-4-fails-due-to-check-for-expected-files/122559/3 "2021-08-27T09:17:15Z")

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If you use management systems for your server, they can generated a folder structure for a given vhost. Or you install / extract something you can do it at the nextcloud path by accident (or because it’s in the default webhost location), … Sometimes the date or the owner can give a clue…

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**Author:** ![wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wwe/32/72963_2.png) [@wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wwe)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 10:35am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-from-21-0-3-to-21-0-4-fails-due-to-check-for-expected-files/122559/4 "2024-12-13T10:35:29Z")

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**Author:** ![wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wwe/32/72963_2.png) [@wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wwe)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 10:35am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-from-21-0-3-to-21-0-4-fails-due-to-check-for-expected-files/122559/5 "2024-12-13T10:35:30Z")

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