Ancestors

Written by Paul on 2025-01-27 at 18:08

Finally managed to fix an annoying problem whereby Nextcloud was sometimes running twice on one of my machines, and had double-downloaded every file (but not uploaded them, so my desktop had two copies of everything but the server didn't, and the duplication only happened on one account). This used up 8GB of space!

I will blog about it at some point, but the root cause was Nextcloud was listed to launch twice at startup, although it only did maybe 10% of the time. (1/2)

[#]Linux #Nextcloud

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Written by Paul on 2025-01-27 at 18:09

The command I ran to remove the duplicates was:

find . -name '..~' | xargs -d '\n' rm

The -d '\n' argument to xargs tells it to only use newlines to separate paths, otherwise it tries to use any whitespace and this breaks when you have paths with spaces in them. (2/2)

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Toot

Written by Jonathan Dowland on 2025-01-27 at 18:12

@pwaring you can also tell find to -delete

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Written by Paul on 2025-01-27 at 18:12

@jmtd Good point, I'd forgotten about that (some of my server backup scripts use -delete).

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