Advanced Usage

Options

When invoking the client from the command line, the following options are supported:

-h, --help
shows all the below options (opens a window on Windows)
--logwindow
open a window to show log output.
--logfile <filename>
write log output to file <filename>. To write to stdout, specify - as 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