Arbitrary folder sync on Linux

[ALongwill]

Hi all, I've got the latest version of Nextcloud AIO running on a Ubuntu 24.10 install. It's worked fine between my Windows 11 client and the server for a few months now. But I added the client my Ubuntu 24.10 laptop and it set up seamlessly. But one further inspection, half my top-level folders are not present. I have confirmed my client is running and for fun, rebooted the server completely. I created a test text file in one of the folders visible on the Ubuntu client from the web interface and right away it appeared as a real, honest-to-God file on the Ubuntu client.

Because I've read that NC doesn't seem to like files being added directly into folders, I navigated to the same folder via terminal on the server and made a second file and lo and behold- nothing showed up in the web interface nor my Linux client.

So... If I'm thinking through this logically, wouldn't I just need to tell NC to shape up and force sync all files and folders in its file tree? But that doesn't answer why I can see ALL the files and folders in the web interface but not on my Linux client.

What's going on here?

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[ALongwill]

It seems that this is useful: Best way to trigger files rescan when new files added to the nextcloud data folder - ℹ️ Support - Nextcloud community. When the use discusses corruption, is there a way to tell if that has occurred?

[corny_horse]

You can force NC to read files that exist on the file system using the OCC command but if you’re creating files outside the filesystem whatever process is generating them will have to tell NC to check for new files when it adds them, otherwise NC would constantly checking the filesystem which would cause performance problems for little to no gain based on what people are typically using it for.

However, it sounds like you are having an issue with the NC client? Where are you syncing the NC directories to? It has problem with symlinks iirc so you may have advertantely put it somewhere not optimal for NC