Lacking documentation explaining what tool actually does

[tasmanskies]

Does it preserve the folder structure?
Does it copy the files or move them (i.e. are the files left behind for data safety)?
Is there a post-transfer verification process that is run, perhaps doing a hash of each file, providing confidence that the files have been transferred correctly without me having to do that for 127,947 different files manually?
Does it preserve the file version history for each file so previous versions can be recovered on Nextcloud, once Dropbox is retired?

Having something that describes what the tool does (and does not do) would lend confidence to those who want to entrust their data to it

[marcelklehr]

Hello @tasmanskies

Does it preserve the folder structure?

Yes

Does it copy the files or move them (i.e. are the files left behind for data safety)?

It copies them.

Is there a post-transfer verification process that is run, perhaps doing a hash of each file, providing confidence that the files have been transferred correctly without me having to do that for 127,947 different files manually?

No, there is not post-transfer verification.

Does it preserve the file version history for each file so previous versions can be recovered on Nextcloud, once Dropbox is retired?

No.

[tasmanskies]

okay... do you agree that this is useful information to put in a readily discoverable place?

Perhaps new issues proposing the transfer verification and the history preservation are appropriate, shall I raise those also?

[marcelklehr]

do you agree that this is useful information to put in a readily discoverable place?

Yes, let's put this in the README. If you could open a pull request that would be awesome :)

Perhaps new issues proposing the transfer verification and the history preservation are appropriate, shall I raise those also?

Yes, you can raise those as issues, Nextcloud GmbH is not currently committed to feature development on this app, though, our work is confined to maintenance, but we do always accept pull requests.

[maximederoeux]

Hello,

Is there a way to know in which order the files are copied ?

The transfer speed is so slow that it's going to take at least 20 days to transfer it all.
Of course, we can not just stop working in the meantime.

How can we be sure that the last created or edited files will be transferred as well ?

Thanks in advance,
Best regards,
Maxime

[marcelklehr]

How can we be sure that the last created or edited files will be transferred as well ?

The app fetches the list of files in chunks of 2k files, but indeed when you keep adding files you might have to run the import multiple times. It will not re-download anything that exists already, in this case.