Worked example of changing the (skeleton) default files and folders in the Nextcloud All-in-One Docker Image

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Hi,

Mostly for my own benefit Iā€™ve written a short worked example of how you can change a userā€™s default files and folders (aka ā€˜the skeleton folderā€™) when you have installed Nextcloud AIO Docker. It might be helpful for others:

Feedback or suggestions gratefully received (though replies likely slow).

NB - I would have posted this in ā€˜How toā€™ but donā€™t have the forum kudos to do soā€¦

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Hi, you adjusted the core folder which will be overwritten upon the next update.

See GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: Nextcloud AIO stands for Nextcloud All-in-One and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance. how to do things properly.

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Hmm. Despite having read that page (I thought fairly thoroughly) and doing a whole lot of googling; I completely missed that paragraph. Would have made things easier a couple of weeks agoā€¦

Iā€™ll run through this and update / amend / delete the post when I have time.

Very much appreciate your correction.

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Iā€™ve thought about this a bit more and why this happened.

Kind of figured it out. Iā€™m new to Nextcloud. So the original question I needed to answer was ā€œHow do I change the default files and folders that a user sees in Nextcloud.ā€ I read the FAQ. There was nothing on it.

There is a section that tells you how to ā€œdefine a custom skeleton directory.ā€ But of course you need to know that defining a custom skeleton directory is what changes the default files and folders. Although I donā€™t think ā€˜skeleton directoryā€™ is a bad name at all, I donā€™t think you would necessarily know what it does without some background context.

Of course when after I had figured out that I needed to change the skeleton directory, from looking up other resources; I had already discounted the FAQ (I mean Iā€™d already read that right - and it wasnā€™t there). Of course in hindsight it would have been great if when Iā€™d heard about the skeleton directory I had re-read the FAQ, but it just didnā€™t occur to me.

I wouldnā€™t mind raising an issue on Github to add a bit more context on this para on the FAQ, basically saying what the problem is that you are trying to solve / provide context. Iā€™d be happy to raise the issue / pull request myself (though not tonightā€¦).