notes Notes fail to load after upgrade to Nextcloud 32.0.0

Notes fail to load after upgrading Nextcloud server to v32.0.0 with error Error from Nextcloud server: Reading notes from filesystem has failed. (Error)

Logs show this error from notes: Undefined constant OCP\Share::SHARE_TYPE_USER

I can still see the Notes .md files in the configured folder.

Steps to reproduce

Have a working instance of Nextcloud w/ Notes running on v31.0.0
Upgrade to v32.0.0

Expected behaviour

Notes should load as usual, as nothing about the way they are stored changed.

Actual behaviour

Notes fail to load.

Server

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Notes app version: 4.2.13
Nextcloud version: 32.0.0
OS: Docker (linuxserver/nextcloud)
Web server: nginx/1.28.0
PHP version: 8.4.13
Database: Postgres 14

Nextcloud configuration:

``` { "system": { "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu", "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis", "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis", "redis": { "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "port": 6379 }, "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "trusted_domains": [ "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***" ], "trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "default_phone_region": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "allow_local_remote_servers": true, "dbtype": "pgsql", "version": "32.0.0.13", "overwritehost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "skeletondirectory": "", "installed": true, "twofactor_enforced": "false", "twofactor_enforced_groups": [ "Users", "admin" ], "twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups": [], "maintenance": false, "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "theme": "", "loglevel": 2, "preview_max_x": 2048, "preview_max_y": 2048, "jpeg_quality": 60, "app_install_overwrite": [ "facerecognition", "bruteforcesettings", "drawio", "impersonate", "files_markdown", "metadata", "maps", "memories", "files_rightclick", "l10n_override", "tasks", "side_menu", "timemanager", "twofactor_webauthn" ], "overwrite.cli.url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "mail_smtpmode": "smtp", "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp", "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN", "mail_smtpauth": 1, "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "mail_smtpport": "25", "mail_smtpstreamoptions": { "ssl": { "allow_self_signed": true, "verify_peer": false, "verify_peer_name": false } }, "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "filelocking.enabled": "true", "memories.exiftool": "\/config\/www\/nextcloud\/apps\/memories\/bin-ext\/exiftool-amd64-musl", "memories.vod.path": "\/config\/www\/nextcloud\/apps\/memories\/bin-ext\/go-vod-amd64", "memories.vod.ffmpeg": "\/usr\/bin\/ffmpeg", "memories.vod.ffprobe": "\/usr\/bin\/ffprobe", "updater.secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "enabledPreviewProviders": [ "OC\\Preview\\Image", "OC\\Preview\\HEIC", "OC\\Preview\\TIFF", "OC\\Preview\\Movie" ], "memories.vod.nvenc.scale": "cuda", "upgrade.disable-web": true, "memories.vod.nvenc.temporal_aq": true, "memories.vod.connect": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***", "memories.vod.external": true, "memories.vod.disable": false, "memories.vod.nvenc": true, "memories.vod.qf": 25, "maintenance_window_start": 2, "memories.db.triggers.fcu": true, "files.chunked_upload.max_size": 0 } } ```

Client

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Browser (incl. version): Brave 1.79.126
OS: MacOS 15

Log files

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{"reqId":"***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***","level":3,"time":"2025-10-19T09:15:15+00:00","remoteAddr":"***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***","user":"***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***","app":"notes","method":"GET","url":"/apps/notes/notes","message":"Controller failed with Error","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","version":"32.0.0.13","exception":{"Exception":"Error","Message":"Undefined constant OCP\\Share::SHARE_TYPE_USER","Code":0,"Trace":[{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/legacy/OC_Hook.php","line":85,"function":"preUnShare","class":"OCA\\Maps\\Hooks\\FileHooks","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/Share20/LegacyHooks.php","line":47,"function":"emit","class":"OC_Hook","type":"::"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/Share20/LegacyHooks.php","line":27,"function":"preUnshare","class":"OC\\Share20\\LegacyHooks","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/3rdparty/symfony/event-dispatcher/EventDispatcher.php","line":220,"function":"{closure:OC\\Share20\\LegacyHooks::__construct():26}","class":"OC\\Share20\\LegacyHooks","type":"->","args":["*** sensitive parameters replaced ***"]},{"file":"/app/www/public/3rdparty/symfony/event-dispatcher/EventDispatcher.php","line":56,"function":"callListeners","class":"Symfony\\Component\\EventDispatcher\\EventDispatcher","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/EventDispatcher/EventDispatcher.php","line":67,"function":"dispatch","class":"Symfony\\Component\\EventDispatcher\\EventDispatcher","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/EventDispatcher/EventDispatcher.php","line":79,"function":"dispatch","class":"OC\\EventDispatcher\\EventDispatcher","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php","line":2069,"function":"dispatchTyped","class":"OC\\EventDispatcher\\EventDispatcher","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php","line":1135,"function":"dispatchEvent","class":"OC\\Share20\\Manager","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php","line":1487,"function":"deleteShare","class":"OC\\Share20\\Manager","type":"->"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php","line":1270,"function":"checkShare","class":"OC\\Share20\\Manager","type":"->"},{"file":"/config/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php","line":290,"function":"getSharesBy","class":"OC\\Share20\\Manager","type":"->"},{"file":"/config/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Service/Note.php","line":114,"function":"getShareTypes","class":"OCA\\Notes\\Service\\NoteUtil","type":"->"},{"file":"/config/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Controller/Helper.php","line":67,"function":"getData","class":"OCA\\Notes\\Service\\Note","type":"->"},{"file":"/config/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Controller/Helper.php","line":119,"function":"getNoteData","class":"OCA\\Notes\\Controller\\Helper","type":"->"},{"function":"{closure:OCA\\Notes\\Controller\\Helper::getNotesAndCategories():118}","class":"OCA\\Notes\\Controller\\Helper","type":"->","args":["*** sensitive parameters replaced ***"]},{"file":"/config/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Controller/Helper.php","line":118,"function":"array_map"},{"file":"/config/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Controller/NotesController.php","line":77,"function":"getNotesAndCategories","class":"OCA\\Notes\\Controller\\Helper","type":"->"},{"file":"/config/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Service/Util.php","line":31,"function":"{closure:OCA\\Notes\\Controller\\NotesController::index():63}","class":"OCA\\Notes\\Controller\\NotesController","type":"->","args":["*** sensitive parameters replaced 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failed with Error","exception":[],"CustomMessage":"Controller failed with Error"},"id":"68f4ad381ac34"}

Oct 19 '25 09:10 M0dEx

Same here. 4.2.13 with NC 32.0.1 Can't access the setting of the app as well to check with folder it wants to load. Only option is a redirect to the dashboard

OS Bazzite Browser Firefox 144.0

Oct 25 '25 10:10 naelfe

I discovered the cause in my case - a notes file with sharing enabled. Once I moved it away from the Notes folder, the app loaded just fine.

Oct 25 '25 11:10 M0dEx

I did check and none of my notes are shared. I don't know though if any other user has (for whatever reason) shared notes

Oct 25 '25 20:10 naelfe

Just ran into same issue after upgrade from 31.0.10 to 32.0.1 on a Ubuntu server with manual NC installation, not docker.

Removing the notes app and reinstalling with gui or through " occ app: install notes" shows success, but notes is still not working.

Client OS: Wintendo 11 Browser: Brave

Oct 30 '25 18:10 krymnon

I had the same issue and can confirm once I unshared the files it started to work.

Nov 01 '25 11:11 alistair-marshall

I have the same issue, Downloaded and installed notes on my NC32 installation and notes would not load. I have disabled the text app and this has solved the issue.

Nov 09 '25 22:11 gurnhack1

I have the same issue, Downloaded and installed notes on my NC32 installation and notes would not load. I have disabled the text app and this has solved the issue.

unfortunately that trick did not work for me :(

Nov 10 '25 08:11 naelfe

OP's stack trace suggests the issue was in Maps.

That's since been fixed it looks like: nextcloud/maps#1469

Since it's a sharing related bug, likely also explains why disabling sharing was a workaround.

Closing since this isn't a Notes matter and is also fixed.

Dec 16 '25 21:12 joshtrichards