Usage

To start ownCloud Client, click on the desktop icon or start it from the application menu. In the system tray, an ownCloud icon appears.

Overview

ownCloud is represented by an icon in the Desktop’s system tray, also known as notification area.

The clients menu is accessed with a right click (Windows, Linux) or left click (Mac OS).

The status of the current sync can be observed in the Status dialog, available trough the Open status... option. On Windows, a left click on the tray icon also opens the status dialog.

Note

Until the intial setup has finished, the Connection Wizard will be shown instead when left-clicking on Windows.

The dialog provides an overview on the configured sync folders and allows to add and remove more sync folder connections as well as pausing a sync connection.

Changing your password

Use the Configure option. It will open the Connection Wizard, which next to reconfiguring your connection to use a different user or server also will allow to change the password for the local account, or to switch from HTTP to HTTPS.

Setting up a proxy

By default, the configured system proxy will be picked up. This may not be working reliable on some Linux distributions, as only the http_proxy variable gets parsed. You can configure a proxy different from your system default by choosing Configure proxy... from the menu.

By default, ownCloud expects a HTTP proxy. If you want to specify a SOCKS5 proxy instead, tick the “Use as SOCKSv5 proxy” option.

Options

ownCloud Client supports the following command line switches:

--logwindow

open a window to show log output at startup.

--logfile <file>

write log output to a single file

--logdir <dir>

write log output to dir, one for each sync run.

--flushlog

flush the log file after every write.

--monoicons

Use black/white pictograms for systray.

Config File

ownCloud Client reads a configuration file.

On Linux it can be found in:

$HOME/.local/share/data/ownCloud/owncloud.cfg

On Windows it can be found in:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\ownCloud\owncloud.cfg

On Mac it can be found in:

$HOME/Library/Application Support/ownCloud

It contains settings in the ini file format known from Windows.

Note

Changes here should be done carefully as wrong settings can cause disfunctionality.

Note

Changes may be overwritten by using ownCloud’s configuration dialog.

These are config settings that may be changed:

remotePollinterval (default: 30000)

Poll time for the remote repository in milliseconds

maxLogLines (default: 20000)

Maximum count of log lines shown in the log window