Nextcloud Incomplete Uploads – How to Automatically Remove Incomplete File Uploads in Nextcloud 14

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Just installed a fresh Nextcloud 14, concluding some testing before putting it into production, including upload of large files through the Web UI.

Being impatient I started clicking around while waiting for a ~1Gb file to finish uploading, oblivious to the fact that uploads are interrupted when you do that.

So I had to start over again, and continued clicking around in another tab. Not keeping my tabs organized, this happended several times..

During attempt 5 of the upload I got curious as to how Nextcloud actually deals with interrupted uploads and started poking around in the file system and found the following:

Incomplete files are kept in <user-folder>/uploads, and moved to <user-folder>/files when complete.

However, aborted uploads, e.g due to "clicking around" don't seem to be removed automatically.

Here are my first 4 attempts to upload the file:

root@docker1 .../admin/uploads# du -sh * 41M web-file-upload-223ed330e5adb988a8963b52027a9a7c-1541719636278 601M web-file-upload-223ed330e5adb988a8963b52027a9a7c-1541720062948 8.0K web-file-upload-223ed330e5adb988a8963b52027a9a7c-1541721459579 731M web-file-upload-223ed330e5adb988a8963b52027a9a7c-1541721472847

So yes, easy to clean up, but really annoying. Can this be automated?

Best Answer

An open GitHub issue suggests that these interrupted uploads will be cleaned up when you log out and log back in. The issue says that this will eventually be moved to a background job, so it will happen automatically in a future version of Nextcloud.

Related Solutions

Php – Remove index.php from Nextcloud urls, using Apache+fastcgi

Add these lines in Nextcloud's config/config.php:

  'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',
  'htaccess.IgnoreFrontController' => true,

Then run occ maintenance:update:htaccess from the console to update the .htaccess file.

You should see these lines added to the end of .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  Options -MultiViews
  RewriteRule ^core/js/oc.js$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteRule ^core/preview.png$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(css|js|svg|gif|png|html|ttf|woff2?|ico|jpg|jpeg|map|webm|mp4|mp3|ogg|wav)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !core/img/favicon.ico$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !core/img/manifest.json$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/remote.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/public.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/cron.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/core/ajax/update.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/status.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/ocs/v1.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/ocs/v2.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/robots.txt
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/updater/
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/ocs-provider/
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/ocm-provider/
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/(acme-challenge|pki-validation)/.*
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/richdocumentscode(_arm64)?/proxy.php$
  RewriteRule . index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteBase /
  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    SetEnv front_controller_active true
    <IfModule mod_dir.c>
      DirectorySlash off
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

mod_rewrite and mod_env must be enabled on your server for this to work. You might have to restart the server for the changes to kick in.

This was successfully tested with a Nextcloud 20.0.4 (stable release) on a regular Web install.

Apache – Redirect Wildcard Subdomains to a Specific Subdomain

The Apache webserver reads the vhost config files in alphabetically order. This implies that the 404.conf files is read before the nc.conf file. Thus the host is first matched with the ServerAlias *.example.com directive, this matches and the other vhosts are ignored. By renaming the nc.conf file to 00_nc.conf the Nextcloud configuration will be loaded first and thus matched against nextcloud.example.com, and other domain is matched against 404.conf which is loaded later.

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