How does Nextcloud do a move, does it copy the files and then only delete the origin files when the whole thing is done? Does it delete as it goes? The main questions: is there a way, a tool, an app, anything that lets me move large folders to external storage? Preferably without me having to babysit it for hours? I don’t need to do it on a schedule or anything, it’s just a one-off move. This works, but again, takes almost an hour. So I delete the destination folder, because I’m a renegade who likes to live dangerously.

Inspecting it, it seems like Nextcloud copies the files over, and doesn’t delete them from the origin until the entire lot are copied. There are way to many subfolders and files to merge them manually. What I really want is for it to merge them, but that doesn’t seem to be an option. I try to move the same origin folder to the same destination again, but this time Nextcloud refuses because it already exists. Nothing I can find in the docs tells me what state my files might be in: partly moved? Duplicated but not yet deleted from the source? Can I delete the destination files without losing data? If I look in the Backblaze storage, I can see that some of the files were moved, but not all. There doesn’t seem to be a consistent amount of time or number of bytes it stops at. It goes and goes, and eventually I get an error saying the files could not be moved. I see a spinner over the folder and a progress bar appear at the top (or half of one, anyway).Īnd that’s it for an hour or so. I select “Move or copy” from the actions menu, and then select a folder under my new Backblaze storage. In the web UI I select a directory containing about 16GB worth of files (ie.

I was hoping to move a whole bunch of old photos to it from “regular” Nextcloud storage, about 100-200GB worth. It was easy enough to set up via the admin settings. I’ve recently added a Backblaze B2 instance as external storage. It’s a good problem to have, but, I’m having some difficulties… Unfortunately this means I have absolutely obliterated my storage quota and need to sort that out. I’ve been using Nextcloud for years, mainly for sharing and archiving photos to share with my family. Operating system and version: not sure, it’s shared hosting

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