Unable to delete shares or reuse renamed share names about sharerenamer HOT 8 CLOSED

Thank you very much for your input! I'll set that up as soon as possible and will report back with the results, if any new issues arise.

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The link seems to be still part of the system.
To make sure that the link doesn't exist anymore, take a look at NC's database:
SELECT token FROM oc_share;

Is the link in question still listed here?

Edit: I could also be that another user of the cloud uses the same link. The shared links are not per user, but per instance.

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There's definitely no other user sharing links, for now it's just a single user test instance. The shares in question still appear in the database. There are some randomly named shares and some of which I renamed with the app.

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Make sure you deleted the shared files/folders from the trash bin. Double check: After the trash bin was emptied, call it again (sometimes it says that all was deleted, but on the next call of the trash bin,the files are still there).

Usually, the (deleted) shared links are removed by the cron job. So how did you set up your cron job (AJAX, Webcron, cron)?

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I double checked, there are no files/folders in the trash bin.

the (deleted) shared links are removed by the cron job

I do not recall setting up such a cron job. Sounds like there is a specific job that has to be configured explicitly. What task are you referring to? I guess this would be my problem then.

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Here you can find the instructions on how to set up a cron Job for NC: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_server/background_jobs_configuration.html

Important: Has to he as real cron Job (no AJAX, no web cron).

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So out of the box, NC never deletes any share name, which in combination with the add-in, leads to this issue. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, it sounds like my issue should be pretty common, right?

Thank you for the link to the cron job configuration! Any suggestions on how to define the job to only delete unused share names?

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That would be my guess that the old links don't get deleted due to no cron job running.

Anyway, you should set up a cron job for the backgroud tasks in NC.
So there's no way of defining a backgroud job just for deleting old share links. Simply set up a "default" NC cron job.

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