I have a similar problem. On one host provider, using directadmin, I simply zipped all the directories I wanted, and unzipped them @ /my files/owncloudata/[user]/files and voila, they were ready to sync. However, using another host and cpanel, repeating same did not work although permissions were 755.
I have no idea whats going on.
In any case, there should be ability to do this as upload archive and extracting to owncloudata is most economic for data throughput.
Thanks, Al.
i think ownCloud doesn’t detect such uploads into the data folder automatically and from what i have read it is also unsupported. I think you should use the following alternatives instead: