nextcloud / nextcloud/richdocuments
[Bug]: Office files are corrupted/emptied after some time
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- JavaScript
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Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
I use Collabora Online server on the same box as Nextcloud to edit libre calc ods files and it works great I can edit a file on web and then on mobile phone.
But some times I come back to the file and it is empty, I check versions and they exist but they are all also empty no matter what revision I open.
This happened twice with different versions of Nextcloud, I lost hours of work :( I will have to make a copy manually and not open it using Nextcloud Office.
Steps to reproduce
- Create Calc file (ods)
- Edit on desktop browser
- Edit on mobile phone
- After some time open on desktop web and it is empty
- Open on mobile phone it is empty
- Check revision history all versions are empty (you can see it from their sizes)
Expected behavior
If some device corrupts the file it should at least not corrupt all the versions
Installation method
Other Community project
Nextcloud Server version
27
Operating system
Debian/Ubuntu
PHP engine version
PHP 8.2
Web server
Nginx
Database engine version
PostgreSQL
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
None
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
{
"system": {
"datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"log_type": "syslog",
"logfile": "\/var\/snap\/nextcloud\/common\/log\/nextcloud.log",
"apps_paths": [
{
"path": "\/snap\/nextcloud\/current\/nextcloud\/apps",
"url": "\/apps",
"writable": false
},
{
"path": "\/var\/snap\/nextcloud\/current\/extra-apps",
"url": "\/extra-apps",
"writable": true
}
],
"passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"trusted_domains": [
"localhost",
"192.168.1.***",
"nextcloud.***.syncloud.it"
],
"dbtype": "pgsql",
"version": "27.1.3.2",
"overwrite.cli.url": "http:\/\/localhost",
"dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbport": "",
"dbtableprefix": "oc_",
"dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"installed": true,
"ldapIgnoreNamingRules": false,
"ldapProviderFactory": "OCA\\User_LDAP\\LDAPProviderFactory",
"memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
"loglevel": "2",
"mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
"mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"maintenance": false,
"trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"default_phone_region": "GB",
"mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
"mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpauth": false,
"check_data_directory_permissions": false
}
}
List of activated Apps
Enabled:
- activity: 2.19.0
- circles: 27.0.1
- cloud_federation_api: 1.10.0
- comments: 1.17.0
- contactsinteraction: 1.8.0
- dashboard: 7.7.0
- dav: 1.27.0
- federatedfilesharing: 1.17.0
- federation: 1.17.0
- files: 1.22.0
- files_pdfviewer: 2.8.0
- files_reminders: 1.0.0
- files_rightclick: 1.6.0
- files_sharing: 1.19.0
- files_trashbin: 1.17.0
- files_versions: 1.20.0
- firstrunwizard: 2.16.0
- logreader: 2.12.0
- lookup_server_connector: 1.15.0
- music: 1.9.1
- nextcloud_announcements: 1.16.0
- notifications: 2.15.0
- oauth2: 1.15.1
- password_policy: 1.17.0
- photos: 2.3.0
- privacy: 1.11.0
- provisioning_api: 1.17.0
- recommendations: 1.6.0
- related_resources: 1.2.0
- richdocuments: 8.2.2
- serverinfo: 1.17.0
- settings: 1.9.0
- sharebymail: 1.17.0
- spreed: 17.1.2
- support: 1.10.0
- survey_client: 1.15.0
- systemtags: 1.17.0
- text: 3.8.0
- theming: 2.2.0
- twofactor_backupcodes: 1.16.0
- user_ldap: 1.17.0
- user_status: 1.7.0
- viewer: 2.1.0
- weather_status: 1.7.0
- workflowengine: 2.9.0
Disabled:
- admin_audit: 1.17.0
- bruteforcesettings: 2.7.0
- encryption: 2.15.0
- files_external: 1.19.0
- maps: 1.1.0 (installed 1.1.0)
- suspicious_login: 5.0.0
- twofactor_totp: 9.0.0
Nextcloud Signing status
No errors have been found.
Nextcloud Logs
No response
Additional info
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is identified, and the report includes no logs. Start by reproducing the ODS workflow with Collabora Online across desktop and mobile, then inspect the richdocuments integration, file versions, and server logs when the file becomes empty. Done means identifying the corruption path and preventing the current file and all revisions from being emptied.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, nginx, php, postgresql
- Domain
- backend, databases
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 22/100