r/NextCloud

Hi, I’m in a quandary about choosing between NextCloud and Microsoft 365 basic for personal usage.

I like the idea of sovereignty over my data in NextCloud and that it is based in Europe (as am I). In my case I’d be opting for hosted NextCloud (possibly with TheGoodCloud https://thegood.cloud/ ). For around €2 per month (annual payment) I’d get 10Gb of storage with the basic office type apps . However I’d still have to opt for an email service which is an extra cost , say another €20 or so. Apart from using NextCloud web interface as a Mail client the email wouldn’t otherwise be integrated into NextCloud - I’d also have to get an Android app for calendar etc.

With Microsoft 365 basic for approx the same €2 per month I get adfree email , 100Gb storage, all products integrated into one interface , Android and iOS apps included and also some additional security . Also I’m not sure how secure NextCloud is and certainly it is hard to imagine that TheGoodCloud/Nextcloud having the same resources available to them as would Microsoft ?

I do appreciate the privacy aspect but on the other hand Microsoft are legally bound to observing GDPR. Can anybody help convince me that NextCloud is the better option ?

I've been using nextcloud for nearly a year on my own, connected couple of devices in my family to my local server and its great. However recently one of our customers requested on-prem file sharing service and I thought of Nextcloud. What I was wondering will community edition will be enough for this company of 150 people. At max 30 TB of files will be stored and shared through also user management with LDAP integration is a must. Whats your take on this? Thanks

Novice here on this matter. I have NPM running in a docker in Unraid as well as Nextcloud. (Slowly trying to get SSL working with Nextcloud). (Using letsencrypt with DuckDNS - internal use only).

I have my Nextcloud docker template pointing to this path /mnt/dockers_ssd/appdata/NginxProxyManager/letsencrypt/ with the label being SSL Certificates and the Container Path being /etc/ssl/nextcloud.

Will Nextcloud read the certs this way?

I was wondering when using a hosted instance like with for example hetzner what are must have settings or apps installed through the UI for a small company for let’s say 50 people?

- 2FA for admins at least?
- shared settings

….any advice? Or is there documentation somewhere? I am not talking about the technical backend like backups etc.

Really. I can't see your, active or disabled apps any more with "Could not load apps list. Please try again later". Log is telling me "InvalidArgumentExceptionValue (skynettechnologiesallinoneaccessibility) for app is too long (32)"

Tried google and nothing. Ran an occ repair. No fix.

I'm not impressed. I don't mind tinkering and have fixed many issues over the years but when I'm getting nothing from google to even indicate where to look that's a problem. I'm on stable for a reason. It should be stable. This is not stable. It still works but I can't do anything with apps.

Any help or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Debian latest everything, no docker.

Hey Nextcloud community 👋

I'm Thomas. A few months ago I posted about a Google Calendar sync plugin I built while migrating clients off Google Workspace. A few people asked: "what about Microsoft?"

Well, here's the answer. This is the second plugin in what I'm building as a complete cloud-to-Nextcloud migration and sync suite.

Just open-sourced it: https://github.com/ianustec/nextcloud-microsoft-sharepoint-sync

The problem: clients share SharePoint/OneDrive folders with us. Files need to land in Nextcloud Group Folders automatically, without asking clients to change anything on their side — no API keys, no special setup on their tenant.

The solution: delegated OAuth2 with a single service account. You authenticate once with an account that already has access to the shared folders, and the plugin does the rest.

What it does:

📂 Recursive download of any SharePoint or OneDrive folder and all its sub-folders

🏗️ Replicates the full folder hierarchy inside a Nextcloud Group Folder — idempotent (existing folders are reused, never duplicated)

🔄 Change detection by size + modification time — unchanged files are skipped on re-runs

🔐 Delegated OAuth2 via Microsoft Graph — no changes required on the client's tenant, works with guest/external access

🔒 Refresh token and client secret encrypted at rest with Nextcloud's ICrypto

📊 Live summary report after each run (downloaded / skipped / folders / errors)

⚡ No external Composer runtime dependencies — uses Nextcloud's built-in HTTP client

Three deploy modes (k8s, Docker, bare metal):

./deploy.sh k8s     my-namespace nextcloud
./deploy.sh docker  nextcloud
./deploy.sh local   /var/www/html

This is part of a broader effort I'm working on: a suite of open-source sync and migration plugins for Nextcloud, covering the most common cloud services companies are trying to move away from. The Google Calendar one was the first, this SharePoint one is the second — more are coming.

Happy to hear feedback, bug reports, or feature requests. If you're in the middle of a Microsoft → Nextcloud migration and hitting other blockers, let me know — it might shape what I build next.

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Hey there,

I am looking to replace an old NAS server with Nextcloud, and have some questions.

The company is approx 10-15 people

They simply use the NAS as network shares, and have 2-3 shares in total:

Common (everyone can access it)

Finance (only for the accountant and the 2 owners)

Management (Only for the 2 owners)

They dont want to host anything themself anymore, so the plan is to use a hosted Nextcloud solution.

I have briefly looked at the vendor list at Nextcloud, but they seem to all be licensing per user - not the storage.

Is that the only option available, to license per user? Today they all access the common share with the same user, and then the 2 owners and the accountant have their own account, that grants them extra network shares.

They are used to a network share - is the Nextcloud app the right solution in the future, or is WebDAV stable to use for them? - simply because it looks like a network share

How does Nextcloud handle, if two people opens the same file - on a network share, it locks the file - but if we use the Nextcloud App, then the files are present locally, and only after its synced after an edit, then a file conflict will occur - or not?

They dont want the email, calendar, whiteboards, etc - just simple cloud storage with MFA, that are easy and simple to use.

If anyone can recommend a provider in northern germany / Denmark, that would be perfect - they want zero maintenance (managing SSL certificates, perform updates, etc), but can easily create new users, reset passwords, etc.

Thanks in advance 😄

How private and secure can a NextCloud instance be? Can I host email, calendar, notes, storage and everything on one? Anyone fully on NextCloud?

I opted to have my nextcloud folder mapped to my desktop. Every so often my windows 11 will write bullshit files into my nextcloud folder for no reason. Is there a way to stop windows 11 reaching into my nextcloud folder just to write trash into it?

Edit: The trash that I am talking about: desktop.ini, Music, Video, Searches and many others I don't give a rat's ass about. As a stop gap in the meantime... I have a cron job running to delete bullshit off my nextcloud every morning at 7... I do really need a solution to this bullshit.

Oh and this NTUSER bullshit. I don't know what it is and I don't care. it doesn't belong in my personal locally hosed storage!

just installed nextcloud and i was hoping to find a way to make my main smb share and its files on the nas i have everything installed on as native to the files app and not as external storage

preferrably without moving the smb share

Received an email from SOCRadar that Nextcloud has a Zero day vuln that was used by the hacker group "Lynx-INC ransomware group" in the latest FortiBleed saga.

Exact wording:

Anyone heard anything?

So I got the android app for Nextcloud Calendar but when I try to use my hostname for my self-hosting server, even with the CalDav URL, I am still getting a "Could not connect: Network Request Failed". Did anyone have any luck trying or is this not available with Self hosting?

I've been searching for some hours now, but cannot find a solution to a rather common problem.
I was at work and needed access to my nextcloud calendar. I typed the passwort wrong a few times and now my account is disabled.
I *think* that account was also the (only) admin-account.

My nextcloud is running as an add-on (Fabio Garavini) in home assistant.

No solutions I found so far worked, because i don't have docker, podman, I don't know how i can access the DB and also AI is running in cirles by now.
Resetting a passwords obviously sends a mail to that nextcloud-account that i cannot access - if a mail is even sent because i never set it up.

So... what's an preferable easy and non-intrusive way to reset the password and access my nextcloud again?