=== Manually add files to OwnCloud / NextCloud ===

[[http://bartsimons.me/manually-add-files-to-owncloud/|http://bartsimons.me/manually-add-files-to-owncloud/]]

First, find your data folder
<code>

find / -name config.php 2>/dev/null | while read line ; do cat "$line" | grep " 'datadirectory'" ; done

</code>

Now //**cd**//  to the folder

OwnCloud:
<code>

cd /var/www/owncloud/data

</code>

NextCloud:

<code>
cd /mnt/ncdata

</code>

Check the folder content

<code>
ls -all

</code>

Find the users folder (cd again to it) find the files folder (cd again to it) and create a new folder within or move/copy files here

<code>
mkdir testfolder

</code>

Moving a file/folder (or creating a new folder) into ownCloud's data directory doesn't add it to the database automatically. Now you should use a CLI tool called occ that can manually add missing files and folders to the ownCloud database. So, check where th e utility is located:

<code>
find / -name "occ" 2>/dev/null

</code>

Change to folder in which occ was discovered:

OwnCloud:

<code>
cd /var/www/owncloud

</code>

NextCloud:

<code>
cd /var/www/nextcloud

</code>

…and start occ to scan users folder

<code>
sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all

</code>

this is how the output should look like

<code>
root@owncloud:/var/www/owncloud# sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all

Scanning files for 6 users
Starting scan for user 1 out of 6 (admin)
Starting scan for user 2 out of 6 (xxxxx1)
Starting scan for user 3 out of 6 (yyyyy2)
Starting scan for user 4 out of 6 (zzzzz3)
Starting scan for user 5 out of 6 (aaaaa4)
Starting scan for user 6 out of 6 (bbbbb5)

+---------+--------+--------------+
| Folders | Files  | Elapsed time |
+---------+--------+--------------+
| 24076   | 150551 | 00:03:01     |
+---------+--------+--------------+

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Now, the folder you have just created will appear in your web client...