Nextcloud App. Need special permission??? Not seeing my folders or files

drpete12

I installed the android app for nextcloud and logged into my self hosted nextlcloud server. I do not see any of my folders or files. If I do a search for "files" it finds it and when I click on it it opens web browser to log in.

My app on ios works perfect so I dont think it is server settings. Anything special I need to set in Graphene OS to get this to work?

Thanks

bookreader

Yes, there is definitely something funky about Nextcloud Android. Its not enough to just grant it "photos and videos" permission. You also need to add paths to storage scopes.

drpete12

Thanks. If anyone can tell me what I need to change/do to get nextlcloud working on Graphene os that would be great. Weird things are as follows:

when i go into nextcloud and personel settings and then devices. I see my iphone has logged in but no instance of android or grpahene shows up, like it didnt log in.

Anyone who has this working on graphene any help would greatly be appreciated..thx

other8026

drpete12 If anyone can tell me what I need to change/do to get nextlcloud working on Graphene os that would be great.

I have no problems with Nextcloud. I can't tell you what you need to change or do because I don't know what's wrong with your setup. I just logged in and everything works.

Do you self host your own server? Maybe there's something wrong with your setup? I'll admit it took me a long time to get mine to work correctly on the server.

drpete12 when i go into nextcloud and personel settings and then devices. I see my iphone has logged in but no instance of android or grpahene shows up, like it didnt log in.

Mine shows up as "Google Pixel (Android)"

bookreader

Aside from the already mentioned issue of needing to grant permissions through storage scopes, it works as expected.

drpete12

got it to show up as android. Very weird that on ios it shows and works perfectly. on android (graphene) I dont see any folders. it says no files to show. Gonna try on a regular android device to see how it works with that. Anyone else have this issue?

other8026

drpete12 on android (graphene) I dont see any folders. it says no files to show.

I'm not entirely sure which files/folders you're talking about? Where are you seeing this, and what are you trying to accomplish?

Assuming it's when you're trying to upload files to Nextcloud, you may need to give Nextcloud access to access all files and folders, or better yet, use storage scopes and give Nextcloud access to specific folders.

cybershifter

I had a similar experience and actually came here and found the solution. I was trying to put a backup file from another app on my tablet, into NextCloud as a precaution. However, when I went to upload the file, the NextCloud app saw the folder structure of the internal storage, but none of the files. My NextCloud app had been given complete permissions for Photos and Videos, but that was not enough. Once I changed that to having storage scopes, and gave it permissions for the folder that the file was in, it saw them all. I know that GrapheneOS is more restrictive than stock Android, so it's possible the OS is creating a problem where stock Android would not have it. But the solution of changing the permissions to storage scopes, and selecting the folders you want, fixes this issue.