Hi wildwebmaster,
you hit a known issue in ownCloud 10.6: https://doc.owncloud.com/server/admin_manual/release_notes.html#known-issues
Please do the following to patch your instance:
- in your ownCloud directory execute
wget https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/38246.patch
- execute
patch -p1 < 38246.patch
- done