Nextcloud will have a very interesting time resolving the file mismatch
from what the DB thinks it should have and what the file structure thinks
it should have. Using the OCC command I think will be your best bet to get
that resolved. the nextcloud client might be a good way to do this file
cleanup as it will talk directly to nextcloud and you can purge the trash
bin as well.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:35 AM Seabass via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> You don't want to use command line tools to remove files from nextcloud
> unless it is the occ tool.
> You were right, in relation to the trashbin; the database has an entry and
> all the files have something the correlate to. This is especially the case
> if your data is encrypted, because then there is a third decryption key
> folder.
>
> The trash bin has entries in the database too, I'm pretty sure, but occ
> has a command for clearing all trashbins. Just use that. There is probably
> something like that for versions, too.
>
> Lastly, if you do rm the files, I'm pretty sure you won't see any errors
> or anything, but the entries will still be in your database. Been a while
> since I had this issue myself, but that is what I recall.
> -----------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:35:34 -0700
> From: Aaron Jones <retro64xyz@gmail.com>
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: Nextcloud photos backups
> Message-ID: <06C87362-E9F6-45FC-B8AD-B348CDFB3020@gmail.com>
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>
> You can’t use the web interface to download the files / folder in bulk and
> then choose to delete after diffing those folders to a file to see what it
> does? I would probably do that.
>
> > On Nov 21, 2020, at 1:41 AM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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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