To start ownCloud Client, click on the desktop icon or start it from the application menu. In the system tray, an ownCloud icon appears.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
ownCloud Client supports the following command line switches:
ownCloud Client reads a configuration file.
It contains settings in the ini file format known from Windows.
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Changes here should be done carefully as wrong settings can cause disfunctionality.
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Changes may be overwritten by using ownCloud’s configuration dialog.
These are config settings that may be changed: