On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Frédéric Fortier <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've been using owncloud (7) for a student group for the past year and
> the results have been mostly pleasing. However, due to some bug in an
> upgrade a while back (#12475, #13429 and the like), plus maybe some steps
> taken to try to fix them that more or less worked, our group shares are
> halfway broken, ie. they work as is, but "special things" happen if we try
> to modify them.
>
> Anyways, we're planning to upgrade (soon) to 8.1 and change our auth/group
> system (from owncloud to LDAP). So, while we're at it, I'd really like to
> get a clean slate for pretty much everything (including shares which I'd
> just redo) except the data.
>
> So, on a scale of it's a good idea to it's a really bad idea, how feasible
> would it be to just keep the data (ie. in owncloud/data), scrap the old
> database and start anew, knowing that:
> - Individual users don't own anything, everything is owned by a single
> account and then folders are shared to groups of users (so it's just a
> matter of redoing shares)
> - I can afford some downtime for this
> - I don't care if I loose complimentary db data such as app data, old
> versions, shared links, etc.
>
> I would expect it to be relatively simple, ie. just having the data there
> and finding a way to run the indexer on this data so that it can populate
> the db correctly, but if that's not possible (is there a script already
> present for that?) I could also "manually" reupload everything. Am I
> missing something?
>
> Finally, how would the desktop client react to such a thing? I would guess
> that it would find that the etags have changed and just redownload
> everything from the server? Is that correct?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Frédéric Fortier
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