nextcloud-desktop/doc/conffile.rst

The Nextcloud Client reads a configuration file. You can locate this configuration file as follows:

On Linux distributions:

$HOME/.config/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg

On Microsoft Windows systems:

%APPDATA%\Nextcloud\nextcloud.cfg

On macOS systems:

$HOME/Library/Preferences/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg

The configuration file contains settings using the Microsoft Windows .ini file format. You can overwrite changes using the Nextcloud configuration dialog.

Note

Use caution when making changes to the Nextcloud Client configuration file. Incorrect settings can produce unintended results.

Some interesting values that can be set on the configuration file are:

[Nextcloud] section
Variable	Default	Meaning
remotePollInterval	30000	Specifies the poll time for the remote repository in milliseconds.
forceSyncInterval	7200000	The duration of no activity after which a synchronization run shall be triggered automatically.
fullLocalDiscoveryInterval	3600000	The interval after which the next synchronization will perform a full local discovery.
notificationRefreshInterval	300000	Specifies the default interval of checking for new server notifications in milliseconds.

[General] section
Variable	Default	Meaning
chunkSize	5242880	Specifies the chunk size of uploaded files in bytes.
promptDeleteAllFiles	true	If a UI prompt should ask for confirmation if it was detected that all files and folders were deleted.
maxLogLines	20000	Specifies the maximum number of log lines displayed in the log window.
timeout	300	The timeout for network connections in seconds.
moveToTrash	false	If non-locally deleted files should be moved to trash instead of deleting them completely. This option only works on linux

[Proxy] section
Variable	Default	Meaning
host	127.0.0.1	The address of the proxy server.
port	8080	The port were the proxy is listening.
type	2	0 for System Proxy.
		1 for SOCKS5 Proxy.
		2 for No Proxy.
		3 for HTTP(S) Proxy.