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The nextCloud Client is a file synchronization desktop utility. It synchronizes files on your local computer, tablet, or handheld device with an nextCloud Server. If you make a change to the files on one device, the change is propagated to all other synchronized devices using the desktop synchronization clients.

Normally, you start the client by clicking on the desktop icon or by starting it from the client application menu. After starting, an nextCloud icon appears in the computer system tray or on your tablet or handheld device.

You have the option of starting your Nextcloud desktop client with the nextcloud command. The following options are supported:

Displays all command options.

The other options are:

Opens a window displaying log output.
Write log output to the file specified. To write to stdout, specify - as the filename.
Writes each synchronization log output in a new file in the specified directory.
Removes logs older than the value specified (in hours). This command is used with --logdir.
Clears (flushes) the log file after each write action.
Also output debug-level messages in the log (equivalent to setting the env var QT_LOGGING_RULES="qt.*=true;*.debug=true").

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Uses the specified configuration directory.

The Nextcloud Client reads a configuration file. You can locate this configuration file as follows:

$HOME/.config/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg
%APPDATA%\Nextcloud\nextcloud.cfg
$HOME/Library/Preferences/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg

The configuration file contains settings using the Microsoft Windows .ini file format. You can overwrite changes using the Nextcloud configuration dialog.

NOTE:

Use caution when making changes to the Nextcloud Client configuration file. Incorrect settings can produce unintended results.


Some interesting values that can be set on the configuration file are:

[Nextcloud] section
Variable Default Meaning
remotePollInterval 30000 Specifies the poll time for the remote repository in milliseconds.
forceSyncInterval 7200000 The duration of no activity after which a synchronization run shall be triggered automatically.
fullLocalDiscoveryInterval 3600000 The interval after which the next synchronization will perform a full local discovery.
notificationRefreshInterval 300000 Specifies the default interval of checking for new server notifications in milliseconds.
[General] section
Variable Default | Meaning
chunkSize 10000000 (10 MB) Specifies the chunk size of uploaded files in bytes. The client will dynamically adjust this size within the maximum and minimum bounds (see below).
maxChunkSize 100000000 (100 MB) Specifies the maximum chunk size of uploaded files in bytes.
minChunkSize 1000000 (1 MB) Specifies the minimum chunk size of uploaded files in bytes.
targetChunkUploadDuration 6000 (1 minute) Target duration in milliseconds for chunk uploads. The client adjusts the chunk size until each chunk upload takes approximately this long. Set to 0 to disable dynamic chunk sizing.
promptDeleteAllFiles true If a UI prompt should ask for confirmation if it was detected that all files and folders were deleted.
maxLogLines 20000 Specifies the maximum number of log lines displayed in the log window.
timeout 300 The timeout for network connections in seconds.
moveToTrash false If non-locally deleted files should be moved to trash instead of deleting them completely. This option only works on linux
[Proxy] section
Variable Default Meaning
host 127.0.0.1 The address of the proxy server.
port 8080 The port were the proxy is listening.
type 2 0 for System Proxy.
1 for SOCKS5 Proxy.
2 for No Proxy.
3 for HTTP(S) Proxy.

Please report bugs at https://github.com/nextcloud/client/issues.

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