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Keep Always Offline fails on macOS top-level folders

On macOS, Keep Always Offline fails with a helper application error on top-level Nextcloud folders while subfolders work, on two accounts.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

5 public reports · first reported 8 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

On macOS, a user with two self-hosted Nextcloud accounts can mark subfolders as always available offline, but the same action on a top-level folder shows a helper communication error.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

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