Use external HDD that has been used in an older installation

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Hi,
I crashed my old nextcloudpi installation so I did a new installation. I had all my data on an external HDD. When I use the installation Wizard can I just click ‘Move data to USB’ or will it overwrite my old data?
Of course I skipped formatting the HDD.

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THX

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The wizard is for 1st time users, I would heed the warning, and avoid risk of destroying data by:

Manually editing /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php from command line
to point to your ncdata.
Be sure to edit;

‘datadirectory’ =>
‘tempdirectory’ =>
‘logfile’ =>

After which you need to run nc-scan from ncp-config>TOOLS or ncp-web.

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Hi,
thanks for your answer. What values do I have to for

‘datadirectory’ =>
‘tempdirectory’ =>
‘logfile’ =>

Is it enough to give the mountpoint to ‘datadirectory’ or do I need to give a specific folder on the HDD?

Thanks

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Mountpoint + folder. Example with /dev/sdx mounted as /media/xnbox
‘datadirectory’ => ‘/media/xnbox/ncdata’,
‘tempdirectory’ => ‘/media/xnbox/ncdata/tmp’,
‘logfile’ => ‘/media/xnbox/ncdata/nextcloud.log’,

If your ncdata is in the root directory of the drive, you can use just the mountpoint for datadirectory and add /tmp and /nextcloud.log for the 2 others respectively.