[Owncloud] Fwd: How I just lost 2/3 of my files to the sync-client

[Klaas Freitag]

On 06.02.2014 10:23, Klaas Freitag wrote:

Hi,

good news here.

As we are sitting together for a hackathon on the client this week, we 
were able to have a deeper look into this problem and our friend Olivier 
was actually able to nail the problem down and fix it.

It indeed was a problem with the renaming mechanism, and both the 
problem and the solution are hard to understand ;-)

But: The fix will arrive with the next client release (RC2 or final).

Thanks Olivier for fixing and thanks for the report!

regards,

Klaas

> On 05.02.2014 15:38, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
>> Am 2014-02-05 15:10, schrieb Klaas Freitag:
>>> On 05.02.2014 14:20, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
>>>> After a reinstallation of my laptop and re-configuration of the sync
>>>> client, the client now synced the / directory of my server instead of
>>>> the /clientsync directory.
>>> Did you have a previously configured client? Have you been asked if
>>> you want to start over with a clean sync or keep the local files?
>>
>> I had a previously configured client. For reasons I can't quite
>> reconstruct now, I removed the existing sync entry from the client and
>> added a new one. The new one didn't ask for a path and took the entire /
>> from the server.
>> Note that this sync worked like a charm!
>> After this initial sync I had the entire / from the server on my client
>> and everything where it bel
> Ok, but this means that we do not deal with an update problem from one
> client version to another, because it was a completely new set up client.
>
>>>> Well, that was fine with me, so I decided to move the directories from
>>>> /clientsync/* to / .
>>> Where? On the server or on the client?
>>
>> On the client.
> Ok, so the client propagated the move to the server which we see in the
>   log snippet as well.
>
>>>> At some point, the sync client encountered a 500 Internal server error
>>>> and stopped working.
>>> Why did that happen? Did you find something in the apache error log?