Nextcloud Manuals

Our Nextcloud administrator has the option to set a storage quota for the user. To see our quota we will direct Files and we will find it located on the bottom left. How is our storage fee calculated? Meta-data (thumbnails, temporary files, cache and encryption keys) occupy approximately 10% of disk space, but they are … Read more

When uploading files through the web client, Nextcloud is limited by the PHP and Apache configurations. By default, PHP is configured for only 2 Mega-byte loads. As this default loading limit is not entirely useful, we recommend that your Nextcloud administrator increase the Nextcloud variables to the appropriate sizes for users. The modification of certain … Read more

You can create your own special upload directories so that other people can upload files without having to log in to the server and without being a Nextcloud user. They will not be allowed to see the contents of this directory or make changes. This is an excellent alternative to send large attachments by email, … Read more

The shared files of federation allow to mount shared files from remote servers Nextcloud being able to create direct links to share with users in other Nextcloud servers. Creating a new federation shared file: Federation sharing is enabled in new or upgraded installations of Nextcloud by default. We will follow these steps to create a … Read more

Nextcloud includes a server-side encryption application, and when our Nextcloud administrator enables it, all of our Nextcloud data files are automatically encrypted on the server. Encryption is for the entire server, so when it is enabled we can not choose to keep our files unencrypted. Its main objective is to encrypt files in remote storage … Read more

We can keep our files continuously synchronized with Nextcloud Desktop on the computer, and with the Nextcloud application on Smartphones. Both allow you to connect to your Nextcloud server. We can perform any task and keep the contents of those folders synchronized with our Nextcloud server. That way we will always have our last files … Read more

When we delete a file in Nextcloud, it is not immediately deleted permanently but is moved to the garbage container. It would only be eliminated permanently if we do it ourselves or if the Deleted files application deletes it to make room for new files. We can find them in the section of Deleted files … Read more

The Images application has been rewritten and improved, and is now called the Gallery application. It supports more image formats, classification, zoom and displacement. It also supports advanced customizations through a simple text file. On the Nextcloud main screen, we will click on the Gallery icon. Automatically the Gallery application will find all the images … Read more

Nextcloud is fully compatible with the WebDAV protocol, and can be connected and synchronized with your Nextcloud files through WebDAV. In this chapter we will learn to connect MacOS and Windows to your Nextcloud server through WebDAV. Before we start configuring WebDAV, we will take a quick look at the recommended way to connect client … Read more

Through the Nextcloud interface, we can create, preview, edit, delete, share, re-share files among others. NOTE: The Nextcloud administrator can disable these options, if you do not have any of these, check with your server administrator. Tag files: To tag files we will go to the three points that appear in the line of our … Read more