owncloud(1)

SYNOPSIS

owncloud [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

ownCloud is a file synchronisation desktop utility based on mirall. It synchronizes files on your local machine with an ownCloud Server. If you make a change to the files on one computer, it will flow across the others using this desktop sync clients.

Normally you start the client by click on the desktop icon or start from the application menu. After starting an ownCloud icon appears in the system tray.

Options

ownCloud Client supports the following command line switches:

--logwindow
open a window to show log output.
--logfile <filename>
write log output to file <filename>.
--logdir <name>
write each sync log output in a new file in directory <name>
--logexpire <hours>
removes logs older than <hours> hours. (to be used with –logdir)
--logflush
flush the log file after every write.
--confdir <dirname>
Use the given configuration directory.

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

BUGS

Please report bugs at https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues.

SEE ALSO

csync(1)

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