Shares moving back to default "landing" dir

[mihaig11]

Steps to reproduce

I want three users to share files with each other, so:

1. create three users, user1, user2, user3
2. log in with user1 and create a folder "files from user2" (where files shared by user2 will be kept) and another folder "files from user3" (where files shared by user3 will be kept)
3. log in with user2 and share files/folders with user1. These will land in the root of user1 (as it should be, by default).
4. log in again with user1 and move the files/folders shared by user2 from root into "files from user2"
5. wait until files/folders in "files from user2" move back by themselves into the default "landing" folder for shared files.

Expected behaviour

The files/folders shared by user2 and manually moved into "files from user2" (by user1) should always stay into "files from user2" folder

Actual behaviour

The files/folders shared by user2 and manually moved into "files from user2" (by user1) move back into the home folder of user1 (the default "landing" folder for all files/folders) (unfortunately there is no clue in the logs about it and I cannot reproduce it)

Server configuration

Operating system:
Centos 7

Web server:
Apache 2.4

Database:
mariaDB

PHP version:
5.4.16

ownCloud version: (see ownCloud admin page)
7.0.3 (I had the same problem in 7.0.2)

Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install:
from 7.0.2
List of activated apps:
activity
Deleted Files
Full Text Search
Mail Template Editor
Share Files
Text Editor
Versions

The content of config/config.php:

'xx', 'passwordsalt' => 'xx', 'trusted_domains' => array ( 0 => 'cloud.tpf.be', ), 'datadirectory' => '/LocalDir/data', 'dbtype' => 'mysql', 'version' => '7.0.3.4', 'dbname' => 'owncloud', 'dbhost' => 'localhost', 'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_', 'dbuser' => 'xx', 'dbpassword' => 'xx', 'installed' => true, 'forcessl' => true, 'logtimezone' => 'Europe/Brussels', 'theme' => 'tpf', 'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp', 'mail_smtphost' => 'smtp.tpf.be', 'mail_smtpport' => '25', 'loglevel' => '0', 'mail_from_address' => 'cloud', 'mail_domain' => 'tpf.be', 'maintenance' => false, ); **Are you using external storage, if yes which one:** no **Are you using encryption:** no ### Client configuration **Browser:** IE 10 **Operating system:** Windows 7 ### Logs #### Web server error log no errors in that log #### ownCloud log (data/owncloud.log) no errors in that log #### Browser log ``` Insert your browser log here, this could for example include: a) The javascript console log b) The network log c) ... ```

[LukasReschke]

@schiesbn @icewind1991 Sharing related - would be very cool if somebody of you could take a look at this at some point :-)

[schiessle]

1. wait until files/folders in "files from user2" move back by themselves into the default "landing" folder for shared files.

I don't understand this step. What do you do after you moved the folder "files from user2"? Do you just wait a few seconds/minutes and do nothing? Do you reload the page? Do you do anything else? Or does it just happen "randomly" at some point in time which can be seconds, minutes, hours or days after the file was moved to "files from user2"?

[mihaig11]

Hi, sorry for not being more clear. It happens "randomly", it happened twice so far (in about one month) for the same user. That is why I said I cannot reproduce it, I don't know how to trigger the bug myself.
I will try to find a way to reproduce it, I imagine there is not much you can do with the info already provided.

[schiessle]

I will try to find a way to reproduce it, I imagine there is not much you can do with the info already provided.

Yes, it would be great to have a way to reproduce it. I never saw this behavior by my own. Some ideas what you could try after step 4: share the same file again, reshare it, modify the share (e.g. change permissions), share it as public link, set password, set expire date, let it expire,.... This needs to happen somewhere when the share gets updated. Maybe you can find a way to reproduce it.

[mihaig11]

Thanks for the ideas, I will try, but the shares never get updated. The shares were created by me from the beginning for 5 users (one folder per user shared with the other four users), and they all get the same problem: All folders shared by each user move back to the default "landing" place (without an apparent cause), except for the only user that never modified it (his shared folder is still empty)...I will try to recreate that again with some test users.

[PVince81]

@mihaig11 are you still seeing this with 7.0.5 ?
AFAIK there were some sharing fixes that might help

[mihaig11]

@PVince81 I am not experiencing the issue anymore, so far, so good.
Thanks

[PVince81]

@mihaig11 thanks for the update. I'll close this ticket then.
If you see it happening again, feel free to reopen.
Thanks.

[mihaig11]

this is still a bug, I found a way to reproduce it with the owncloud virtual appliance downloaded from bitnami today (OC 8.2.2).
Create 4 users: user1-4 and two groups group1-2. Put user1and user2 into group1 and user3and4 into group2.
login with user1. create a folder "foldergroup1" and share it read ony with group2 and modify for group1
login with user3. create a folder "foldergroup2" and share it read ony with group1 and modify for group2. create a folder "testfolder" and put "foldergroup1" and "foldergroup2" in it.
login with all other users, create a folder "testfolder" and put "foldergroup1" and "foldergroup2" in it.So all users should have a folder "testfolder" with "foldergroup1" and "foldergroup2" in it.
log back with ocadmin and delete user4, for example.
log back with user1, for ex, and see that "foldergroup1" and/or "foldergroup2" moved back into the root (the default "landing" folder).

[PVince81]

@rullzer

[rullzer]

assigning to myself so I don't forget to look into it.

@mihaig11 thanks for the detailed steps!

[rullzer]

Ok I can confirm this on master as well.

For some weird reason all the user specific group shares are deleted in the last step.
Debug time!

[rullzer]

Ok I think I got it... patch is almost trivial. PR incomming... and will be backported!

[rullzer]

Fix in #22143

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