I would mount your nextcloud via webdav and then rm -rf them from from 
there.  That will take care of the database records for the files.

Brian Cluff

On 11/21/20 1:41 AM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> I have an old experiemental Nextcloud install where I saved some files 
> and
> other documents. I don't care about anything else I played with. I also
> don't care about shared links because they should not have been available
> anyway :).
>
> If I just want to backup the files I can backup $ncdatadir/$user/files 
> and
> get everything?
>
> Also, if this were still active, could I just rm files to remove them 
> from
> Nextcloud?
>
> I see there are also files_trashbin and files_versions, so it seems I
> might have to root around in those to make sure it's truly gone from the
> system.
>
> I'm certain that removing them removes them, but not sure if Nextcloud
> will then continue looking for them until the end of time ...
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

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