Nextcloud Client Manual

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• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Installing the Desktop Synchronization Client
• Visual Tour
• Using the Synchronization Client
• Conflicts
• Advanced Usage
• The Automatic Updater
• Appendix A: Building the Client
• Appendix B: History and Architecture
• Appendix C: Troubleshooting
• FAQ
• Glossary

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

On Linux distributions:

$HOME/.config/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg

On Microsoft Windows systems:

%APPDATA%\Nextcloud\nextcloud.cfg

On macOS systems:

$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.

[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.