hey, can you give me some more insights on that? so link another owncloud installation with the new owncloud?
or just change the data dir in the config file to my current location?
I would create a new setup with a new data-directory since ownCloud doesn't like if you make changes to the data-folder yourself. The external storage feature can include other folders on your filesystem.
Hmm this doesnt really help me either. I tried many times to set up external storages or even link to another owncloud installation on a different server.
the loading time was crazy long. took like 2 minutes or longer to establish a connection to the remote OC then if i clicked any folder i hat to wait another 2 minutes or more.
If i access the owncloud installation individually they were super fast and no problems 
There must be any solution for this issue. How can I even lose access to files I always had access too...
So if i have a new owncloud installation and then point the datadir to an external folder (not in the owncloud installation root dir) I will get issues again, because there are already files in this folder? Its about 60-70gb on files. and a lot of files which would take forever to download and upload.
Hmm will do,
but I guess it wont give me access to my files again. This is a nightmare, now I have to download everything and reupload? Thats just a great waste of time and resources...
Oh boy...
If it is really a bug, the fix should bring you back your files.
Running owncloud in hosted environments can be a nightmare, in some cases it seems to work fairly well but you fully depend your hoster's settings.
Hi tfidd,
which fix? the one i cant use because my hoster doesn't allow it? thats not a fix I can use.
Owncloud worked great for me the last ~ 4 years. never had an issue...
I see hosted environment as an issue for a multi user setup with a lot of transfers...I dont have that.
Shared hosters environments are always an issue, even with single users. We can discuss this to death in here but it won't solve your issue.
If you're loosing access to your files without doing any modifications within the datadir report it to the bugtracker as already described. Everything else doesn't make any sense so i'm closing here.
With fix I just meant, that if you report an issue on github, they will come up with a solution (called a "fix"). So there is no fix yet, we don't even know where the real problem is.