I'm currently using Dropbox as my sync target but I want to know how do I switch to next cloud without erasing all my data for syncing?
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Following this guide in the FAQ is probably the best place to start if you want to avoid re-syncing all the data and making sure everything is safe - FAQ | Joplin
On step 5 you would be changing your entire sync target rather than just a WebDAV URL
The reason you might want to avoid doing a full re-sync from the client data is because NextCloud is hilariously slow at syncing. Its OK for day to day use but its a real pain to migrate and upload/download all of it (I know because I did it)
But the best advice to be honest is just to take backups of both your sync target and your local config + a notes export (i.e. your profile with the database as well as a JEX export) - you can never be too safe!
So long as you have a copy of your Dropbox data and your local backups you can be pretty safe that nothing you can do will break anything permanently- the simple backup plugin can help with this too.
A more risky, put plausible approach, would be to change the sync target and press "Re-upload local data to sync target" before confirming the option change then restart Joplin and it should push everything to the new target. I'm not 100% sure if that works and its a bit of a janky hack to do it that way.
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