Nextcloud using much too much storage

[Stardenver]

Hi all

Was playing around and doing some tests with external drives and I guess thats the reason for Nextcloud to take much more space than it should. All external drives/storages are not longer connected and the trashbin is empty. But still its using a lot of space.

I am just using files with one account and the other Nextcloud account is just for calendar and contacts sync. Nextcloud shows 14.2 GB and thats the same size the files have on my system at home (using the sync-client). But when I tried to start a backup, I stopped it after backup size reached almost 100 GB. I checked the Cloudron system information and it shows, that Nextcloud is using almost 172 GB.

So Nextcloud somehow created 150 GB of data I am not using and actually I cant even see. I would like to search these files and erase them but I don't know where to start.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much

[Stardenver]

Solved it. There is a files_version folder and it was full

[Kubernetes]

And how did you solve it? Did you just delete the files_version folder content? Is that a safe action?

[Stardenver]

@Kubernetes said in Nextcloud using much too much storage:

And how did you solve it? Did you just delete the files_version folder content? Is that a safe action?

Well.. nothing happened. I just erased those versions of files I didnt use anymore. In my case I attached an external storage box and removed it later. So I simply erased the folders from within the files_version folder that were on that storage.