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.

[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).
forceLoginV2	false	If the client should force the new login flow, eventhough some circumstances might need the old flow.
minChunkSize	5000000 (5 MB)	Specifies the minimum chunk size of uploaded files in bytes.
maxChunkSize	5000000000 (5000 MB)	Specifies the maximum chunk size of uploaded files in bytes.
targetChunkUploadDuration	60000 (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	false	If a UI prompt should ask for confirmation if it was detected that all files and folders were deleted.
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.
showExperimentalOptions	false	Whether to show experimental options that are still undergoing testing in the user interface. Turning this on does not enable experimental behavior on its own. It does enable user interface options that can be used to opt in to experimental features.
showMainDialogAsNormalWindow	false	Whether the main dialog should be shown as a normal window even if tray icons are available.

[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.