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Nextcloud migration

In the coming weeks, Sciebo will gradually migrate all instances of ownCloud to Nextcloud. Nothing will change in the basic functionality, only a few features will be added.

In fact, everything should continue to work as before. If not, this document will hopefully help.

If you're having a more complicated case, feel free to email us as usual using our contact form.

Changes

  • Apps are now at the top of the page and no longer at the top left of the menu
  • Groups are now called Teams and can be found in the Contact app
  • .odt, .odp. and other Libreoffice formats are no longer opened in Onlyoffice, but opened in Collabora
  • there are now a few new apps: Calendar, Contacts, Deck (Kanban Board), Forms (surveys) and Polls (polls)
  • The eye-friendly dark mode is activated by default; the menu at the top right Light Mode as well as High Contrast and Dyslexia modes can also be set via the modes
  • Login only with Sciebo ID: Due to a bug, it was previously possible to log in with your e-mail address. Please only use your Sciebo ID to log in. If in doubt, you can find out what this is in MySciebo
  • Incoming shares can be automatically sorted into a separate folder. This can be selected under Settings/Share.

Help, my client is not working anymore

We recommend every user to uninstall the old sciebo client and install the new Nextcloud based after the migration. Nevertheless, the old client is still working for the moment. The settings of the old client will be kept. See: Nextcloud clients

Alternatively, the unbranded Nextcloud client can be used for each platform, especially for mobile devices. A Nextcloud client for mobile devices can be found in the respective app stores (Play, FDroid and App Store).

Known issues: For compatibility reasons, the Nextcloud client does not synchronize files containing characters reserved by Windows in their name (“?”, “*”, “<”, “>”, “|”, “/”, “\” and “:”).