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