Existing folder "photos" (non-capitalized "p") prevents automatic upload of photos

[rolandu]

Expected behaviour

• Automatically upload photos videos
• iOS app should tell me that if there is a folder called "photos" (non-capitalized) it cannot upload photos as the default folder to upload to is called "Photos" (capitalized) and both folders cannot co-exist.

Actual behaviour

• Both iOS as well as Mac app show sync errors
• Apparently the photos were already stored on the server but the Apps were not able to download them.

Steps to reproduce

• Migrate to Nextcloud 13.0.2
• have a folder called "photos" (non-capitalized) in the nextcloud home-directory
• clean install iOS and Mac app of NextCloud
• Set iOS app to automatically upload photos/videos
• Take a photo/video
• Sync errors appear

Workaround

• rename "photos" to "Photos" (on Mac); photos immediately transfer

Futher comment

I admit that I did not really do a lot of research to find out whether the bug happened in iOS, on the server, or on the Mac client. Apparently there is a limitation that folders "photos" and "Photos" cannot co-exist within a directory and the default points to "Photos".

I would recommend the iOS (maybe also Android) app check whether a "photos" folder exists and display an error/warning.

iOS version

11.3.1

App version

2.20.8.00003

Server configuration

Operating system: Debian

Web server: Apache

Database: MySQL

PHP version: 7.0

Nextcloud version: 13.0.2