Not able to change the account username

[Akidxx]

Steps to reproduce

1.Connect to your owncloud account from IOS device (using basic authentication)
2,Click the account URL
3.Edit account

4,Try to edit the username
5,Notice that it´s not possible to edit the username

Expected behavior

According to the documentation the username should be editable

Actual behavior

The username is not editable

Client

iOS version:
14.3

ownCloud app version:
11.4.5 build 182

Device model:
iPhone 8s

Server configuration

ownCloud version:
10,6

[hosy]

Hi @Akidxx !
It make sense, that editing the username is not possible, because some metadata is appended to the user.
But you are right, the documentation should be changed here.

Please add a new user account inside the iOS app with the basic auth user login data you want to add. You can delete the other user account from the iOS app. This will only delete the account inside the iOS app.

[hosy]

Here is a workaround to copy non uploaded files to an other ownCloud account:

• Add a new account inside the iOS app
• Open the Files.app and enable both ownCloud accounts (if not visible tap on the More … button)
• Navigate inside the (outdated) account, which files are not uploaded to the server
• Select all files and tap on Copy
• Select the new account and the save folder
• Check if all files are imported correctly and uploaded to the server

Now all files are imported into the new account and the old account can be deleted inside the iOS app.

[michaelstingl]

@hosy New account is same as old account in this case (only credentials are different), but files are not cached/available offline. Copying all the files will result in massive duplicates/collisions. Needs testing before recommending this…

[hosy]

@michaelstingl it was not mentioned that the user is the same. This is a really special case, which maybe cannot handled by our app.

[michaelstingl]

@michaelstingl it was not mentioned that the user is the same. This is a really special case, which maybe cannot handled by our app.

Exactly, not a supported use case. @felix-schwarz clarified it in the docs.

[Akidxx]

Exactly, not a supported use case. @felix-schwarz clarified it

@michaelstingl You mean here https://doc.owncloud.com/ios-app/ios_accounts.html

[michaelstingl]

@michaelstingl You mean here https://doc.owncloud.com/ios-app/ios_accounts.html

Yes, but seems the change wasn't deployed yet:
https://github.com/owncloud/ios-app/pull/867/files

[Akidxx]

@michaelstingl You mean here https://doc.owncloud.com/ios-app/ios_accounts.html

Yes, but seems the change wasn't deployed yet:
https://github.com/owncloud/ios-app/pull/867/files

Yep not yet in the docu..still have the old