Free up downloaded Files in Linux VFS

[TimPrivat]

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Feature request

Which Nextcloud Version are you currently using: 30.0.1 run in a DockerContainer

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A nice addition to the Desktop Linux Client would be the functionality to remove downloaded Virtual Files.
Right now if a file is downloaded and the .nextcloud File is replaced with the actual one, there is no way to delete the file from my local machine without also deleting it from the Server.

This functionality is already a feature in the Windows version of the Desktop-Client

Describe the solution you'd like
When doing a right-click on a File that was downloaded via Nextcloud, a new option in the context-menu should appear that allows me to delete the file from my local machine and replace it with a .nextcloud file, but keeps the file on the server.

Example from the Windows Client Version:

Describe alternatives you've considered
I believe there are third-party tools that include this functionality, but it would be nice to have it in the official client

[nilsding]

This feature already exists if you also have the overlay icon extension installed for your file manager of choice.

How did you install the Nextcloud client and which client version are you using? what distro and desktop environment do you use?

e.g. on Dolphin the context menu looks like this with VFS enabled:

[TimPrivat]

I installed the Nautilus version from the launchpad repository: https://launchpad.net/~nextcloud-devs/+archive/ubuntu/client
And i'm using the latest version of this repository.
My OS is Ubuntu and im using the default file explorer nautilus

Is there extra software required I need to install to make it work?

[nilsding]

just having the nautilus-nextcloud package installed should be enough for this to work.

which version of Ubuntu are you running? 24.04?

[TimPrivat]

Okay so i just reinstalled Ubuntu 24.04 and nextcloud now everything is working perfectly. I don't know what the error before was. Thank you so much for your help, I thought it's just not an available feature.