NcDavTray 1.x
The 1.x line is where NcDavTray started: one tray icon, one Nextcloud account, one drive letter. It still works, and it is still available.
Tip
TL;DR — v1.2.2 is the last release of the 1.x line. Download it from the releases page; its documentation is the README of that tag. New features go into 2.x only — see Differences between 1 and 2 for what you would gain by upgrading.
A single self-contained PowerShell 5.1 + WinForms script that maps one Nextcloud account to one drive letter and keeps it healthy: watchdog, auto-reconnect, maintenance-mode detection, Explorer label and favicon icon, WebClient tuning, WebDAV cache tab, six language packs plus built-in English.
To run more than one drive you started more than one copy — typically one installed instance plus any number of portable ones, each with its own account. That is the arrangement 2.x replaced with a mount list.
| Last release | v1.2.2, 21 April 2026 |
| Installer | installNcDavTray.cmd |
| Source layout | one file, src\NDT.ps1
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| Configuration |
HKCU\Software\NcDavTray (installed) · NcDavTray_portable.json + NDT_secret.dat (portable) |
| Status | stable, no further releases planned |
- Archive:
NcDavTray_v1.2.2.zip - Source and documentation: tag
v1.2.2
The tag is the documentation. Its README describes 1.x exactly as it shipped, and it is preserved byte for byte — this wiki describes 2.x.
Note
The main branch stood at 1.2.2 until 2.0.0 was released, so that anyone landing on the project while running 1.x saw the documentation for the version they actually had. It now stands at 2.x. The 1.x documentation did not move — it is the README of the tag, where it always was.
Most of what this wiki explains is about Windows, not about the version of NcDavTray, so it applies either way:
| Page | Applies to 1.x? |
|---|---|
| File locking | ✅ fully |
| WebClient service | ✅ fully |
| WebDAV cache | ✅ fully |
| Server identities | ✅ — the Windows limit is the same. 1.x simply has no built-in warning about it |
| Security and privacy | ✅ for the mechanisms; 1.x stores the one account flat under HKCU\Software\NcDavTray rather than in an Accounts sub-key, and it never contacts GitHub |
| Languages | ✅ — English is compiled in rather than shipped as a pack |
| Mounts, Share links, The tray | ❌ 2.x only |
| Updates | ❌ 2.x only — 1.x neither checks for a release nor installs one, so the move to 2.x is the last upgrade you fetch by hand |
| Installation, Build from source | ❌ 2.x only |
Issues about 1.x are welcome on the issue tracker — please say which version you are on.
Important
If the answer to a 1.x problem is a fix, that fix will land in 2.x. Upgrading is a normal update and takes your configuration with it, password included: see Upgrading. It is also the last one you fetch yourself — from 2.0.0 on, the About box installs a newer release.
