{"id":67973,"date":"2025-03-16T17:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/67973\/nextcloud-client-hangs-100-files-slow-transfer\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:37:03","slug":"nextcloud-client-hangs-100-files-slow-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/67973\/nextcloud-client-hangs-100-files-slow-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Nextcloud client hangs, 100 files, slow transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very slow transfer of files with Nextcloud client. What is behind this?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have set up a Nextcloud server, but I quickly encountered problems when importing files. Initially, the data ran quite smoothly over the line, but it quickly got stuck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nextcloud_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nextcloud_1.png 471w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nextcloud_1-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was noticeable that it hung exactly at a 100 file step. Something was still transferred, but very slowly. I first suspected the client on my computer, but another computer showed exactly the same behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the PHP settings and played around with the values. None of this helped. I even set up a new server in a virtual machine as a test. Same result.<\/p>\n<h2>Bulkupload is to blame<\/h2>\n<p>After a bit of searching on the internet, I came across a <a href=\"https:\/\/help.nextcloud.com\/t\/windows-desktop-client-uploads-100-files-at-a-time-and-freezes\/184446\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thread in the Nextcloud forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some people here had the same problem. The solution was to set the following setting in the &#8220;config.php&#8221; of the server:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n'bulkupload.enabled' => false\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nextcloud_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"151\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nextcloud_2.png 536w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nextcloud_2-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bulk upload should actually speed up the transfer. Instead of transferring each file individually, 100 files are sent to the server at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Then it went smoothly!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very slow transfer of files with Nextcloud client. What is behind this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}