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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

      @scottalanmiller I'm pretty sure Dropbox, MS etc all have a "select all and recover" type option.

      NextCloud has this. Super easy to use.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

        @DustinB3403 said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

        @scottalanmiller I'm pretty sure Dropbox, MS etc all have a "select all and recover" type option.

        NextCloud has this. Super easy to use.

        No it does not.
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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch
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          You can revert things individually in the GUI. That is it.
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          Not even by folder. There is no revert options at the folder level.
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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            Sure does, just select or "select all" and choose "restore".

            Screen Shot 2021-03-18 at 4.09.01 PM.png

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller Have you tried using it? Does it actually work?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                @DustinB3403 said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                @scottalanmiller Have you tried using it? Does it actually work?

                Just did. Yeah, works great.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                  @scottalanmiller Have you tried using it? Does it actually work?

                  Just did. Yeah, works great.

                  I saw issues of it not working, or not working with more than 3 files etc.

                  I'm curious now.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch
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                    Restore from trash has always worked just fine for me.

                    I was discussing the restore to point in time that was specifically asked about.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                      @JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                      Restore from trash has always worked just fine for me.

                      I was discussing the restore to point in time that was specifically asked about.

                      What was mentioned was "select all and recover" which is literally exactly what it has. I didn't see anything about a point in time and definitely didn't respond to one. Check the thing that I quoted.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                        @JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                        Restore from trash has always worked just fine for me.

                        Restore from trash is what you quoted and said it didn't have.

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                          Mario Jakovina @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                          @Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                          We already had few serious issues with it (bugs with mainstream Intel GPU never solved etc.) but we switched to it due to pricing advantage.

                          How is NC interacting with the GPU at all? That's very strange. You have this in a VM, right?

                          Issue was with Windows client app. It was not in a VM.

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                            Mario Jakovina @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                            Who HAS this feature? The biggest player on the market doesn't have it.

                            Dropbox has it (we still use Dropbox partly).
                            For us it is common problem that users mistakenly move entire folder. It happens to us few times a year maybe.

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                              Mario Jakovina @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                              @JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                              Restore from trash has always worked just fine for me.

                              I was discussing the restore to point in time that was specifically asked about.

                              What was mentioned was "select all and recover" which is literally exactly what it has. I didn't see anything about a point in time and definitely didn't respond to one. Check the thing that I quoted.

                              NC has option of "select all" but that option has no value for us, after we use it about a year!!!
                              Who needs option to restore all deleted files in entire history of usage?

                              We needed to restore hundreds of files deleted on that day, not entire history of deleted files - that would be a mess

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                                Mario Jakovina
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                                Dropbox also shows large deletions as one "event" that you can undo which is also a nice feature.

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                                  Mario Jakovina
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                                  We also noticed that some users still have access to group folders, after we removed those users from those groups which is weird. We did not found time to analyze and check/report a bug about it. But now I don't feel cofident in NC after these few issues.

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                                    Mario Jakovina @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                    Sure does, just select or "select all" and choose "restore".

                                    Screen Shot 2021-03-18 at 4.09.01 PM.png

                                    Of course, in this example it works fine because you have "1 folder and 2 files"
                                    But after a year or so, we have this, so the option "select all" is pointless:
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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                      @JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                      Restore from trash has always worked just fine for me.

                                      Restore from trash is what you quoted and said it didn't have.

                                      Because @DustinB3403 changed from the posted needs of the topic and I missed that.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
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                                        @JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                        @JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                        Restore from trash has always worked just fine for me.

                                        Restore from trash is what you quoted and said it didn't have.

                                        Because @DustinB3403 changed from the posted needs of the topic and I missed that.

                                        I made no such change to the post. Look at my original reply.

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                                          Mario Jakovina @Mario Jakovina
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                                          @Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                          Question: Is there a way to simply restore many files at once in Nextcloud (but not entire history of deleted files)?

                                          Just for the record, here is my conclusion and experience with this topic, so far.
                                          The problem was:

                                          • 3 group folders (>2.000 files) were somehow deleted from our Nextcloud
                                          • we suspect it's user error, but we don't have proof of that

                                          Our conclusion is
                                          1. Nextcloud does not have an option to restore many accidentaly deleted files. You can select individual files/folders to restore, all "Select all" (meaning whole history) and restore it. For example, Dropbox have two options for this: a) "Rewind this folder" to get everything back as it was, and b) When you delete many fils at once, you can select does "events" with single click and restore many files at once
                                          2. We lost few subfolders (>700files) that we can't find in "Deleted files" which is terrible experience for us, and we will reconsider our usage of Nextcloud (I plan to open another topic for that). We recovered from backup.

                                          Thanks to everybody who contributed to this topic!

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                                            JasGot @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                            @JasGot said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                            @Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

                                            @DustinB3403 Thank you.
                                            I must say that I am a bit disappointed with Nextcloud. This should be normal feature.
                                            We already had few serious issues with it (bugs with mainstream Intel GPU never solved etc.) but we switched to it due to pricing advantage.
                                            However, I can't say it is as reliable as Dropbox, so far.

                                            What does Nextcloud cost?

                                            Totally free. We run it here, too.

                                            I know. That's my point. We manage about 40 NextCloud installations for our customers.

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