New phone: Reinstalling owncloud

Android
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Hi,
I took an unexpected swim yesterday and my phone drowned. So now I’m installing a new phone, and I remembered that I want owncloud to automatically upload my pictures.

So I need to reinstall owncloud (app is already there because it was on the old phone). So it asks me for the “Server address https://…” so I type my servers address (http, local network only, or via VPN) an then I get “local copy could not be renamed; try a different name” . I really don’t know many ways of spelling my server’s name but all I tried end up with that message.

What now?

App is called “ocloud.de” and seems to be version 2.8.2 . Server is quite old. I am not into upgrading to stay recent. It used to work with my old phone.

When I try demo.owncloud.org, it reports that the server cannot be reached. My phone has internet and can reach everything else. My phone can reach my internal owncloud server with the webbrowser.

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Here you can download the latest version:

ocloud app 2.8.2 sounds like a third party vendor

In case you need older versions of the official ownCloud app, you can search the forum for links.

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Hmmm. Seems i’ve been using some thirdparty lookalike.

The issue was that the“local copy could not be renamed; try a different name” message did not covey the actual meaning to me: “there is no owncloud server at that address, but something else”.

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Please check with the official app and let us know. Thanks!!

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Oh… I had come to the conclusion that I’d mis-entered the URL and just “done it right” this time.

But now I tested with wrong URLs too and the official app is much better.

TOFIX: when I enter a bad URL like http://myserver/akjsdflkj it immediately gives “server could not be contacted” when I hit the (too small IMHO) > button.

When I enter the wrong URL as I did before, the app gets the “You’ve successfully installed APACHE on Ubuntu” page and then takes like 30 seconds before it comes to that conclusion. During that time I was thinking: something wrong with DNS? can’t it reach the server? (I’m not near the server now, so via the VPN). To prevent this, consider adding more progress steps: Contacting server machine via indicated protocol: success. Attempting to contact owncloud server … . This is BESIDES the: If you get the ubuntu default message I think you can immediately determine that it isn’t going to work as with the 404 URL.

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Just as a hint, clicking the cloud icon makes the same effect as the ‘>’ button.

Thanks for your tips, we work directly with the server responses, if we can differentiate them, we could handle different stages in the authentication process.