For a long time I’ve used OneDrive to sync all of my files and keep them safe, but I’ve been really getting into self hosting all my own services, so today I set up NextCloud to replace it. I told it to sync my OneDrive folder, and it did it’s best. It copied the file structure and had all the directories and everything but emptied every folder, it deleted every single file I had on my OneDrive, now all I have is empty folders.

Luckily OneDrive has a file recovery system where I can give it a time and date to revert back to so my data should all be safe, but why on earth did it do that in the first place? This was incredibly stressful and terrifying I thought I lost all my work. What did I do wrong?

Edit: I’ve identified the issue and have learned from this experience, it is now a non issue and was completely my own doing. Wary reader, learn from my cautionary tale

Comment that helped me figure it out https://lemmy.ca/comment/12912420

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    The title is a little click baity which will lead to armies of people commenting about how much the dislike Nextcloud. You might want to specify the Nextcloud client.

    Anyway this seems like very problematic behavior. Maybe there was a setting somewhere? Nextcloud client should not delete files. It is possible that there was some sort of conflict with Onedrive. This is why it is important to have backups.