#2340·floccus

Floccus creates additional lockfile on every sync and doesn't clean them up

Author: fanginoortCreated Aug 22, 2026Updated Aug 30, 2026
Labelsbugpriority: mediumfeature: webdav

Which version of floccus are you using?

v5.10.2

How many bookmarks do you have, roughly?

600

Are you using other means to sync bookmarks in parallel to floccus?

No

Sync method

WebDAV

Which browser are you using? In case you are using the phone App, specify the Android or iOS version and device please.

Firefox 154.0 and Android 17 on Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS

Which version of Nextcloud Bookmarks are you using? (if relevant)

No response

Which version of Nextcloud? (if relevant)

No response

What kind of WebDAV server are you using? (if relevant)

Drive functionality offered by mailbox.org (which is based on Open-Xchange I believe)

Describe the Bug

Floccus creates a new lock file on every sync and doesn't delete it after the sync completes successfully. Over the time these files accumulate. The naming scheme is bookmarks.xbel (n).lock where n increments on each sync.

This behavior exists for more than a year, I just happen to notice it now (I had thousands of lockfile remnants in my webdav storage). Also this issue exists in bot the android app and the firefox desktop browser extension

Expected Behavior

Only a single lockfile shall be created which is also supposed to disappear after the sync completed successfully

To Reproduce

  • Use mailbox webdav storage
  • sync

floccus-5.10.2-2026-08-22-redacted.log

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Debug log provided

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