Windows Explorer has been freezing every time I start my PC (busy cursor when I put my mouse over the taskbar). Through process of elimination and some testing I found that it freezes when the nextcloud client is started. Restarting windows explorer gets things going again, but it’s becoming tedious to do that every time I start my computer.
I’m running the current client (2.2.4 build 2) on Windows 10 (64bit). I’ve tried reinstalling the nextcloud client, running “sfc /scannow”, tried every combination settings I can think of, etc… and it locks up every time.
Yes, explorer freezes when I start the client manually. If I restart explorer, stop the client, and start the client again, explorer will freeze every time. I’ll take a look at the logs when I get home tonight.
I read somewhere that Dropbox can cause similar issues to what I was seeing, so I uninstalled it. The taskbar was still freezing when starting the nextcloud client, so I did further searching until I came across the following command to run in powershell.
After rebooting, nextcloud was started and my taskbar stayed responsive. I reinstalled Dropbox just to see what would happen, and things are still running smoothly. Time will tell…
Now I need to figure out why the little green/blue sync icons on all of my folders disappeared.
Edit: Due to the limited amount of folder overlays that windows allows, Dropbox was eating up all of the slots. Goodbye Dropbox, hello nextcloud sync icons overlays.