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Nextcloud |version| User Manual Introduction
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**Welcome to Nextcloud: your self-hosted file sync and share solution.**

Nextcloud is open source file sync and share software for everyone from
individuals to large enterprises and service providers. Nextcloud provides 
a safe, secure, and compliant file synchronization and sharing solution 
on servers that you control.

You can share one or more files and folders on your computer, and synchronize 
them with your Nextcloud server. Place files in your local shared directories, 
and those files are immediately synchronized to the server and to other devices 
using the Nextcloud Desktop Sync Client, Android app. To learn more
about the Nextcloud desktop and mobile clients, please refer to their respective 
manuals:

* `ownCloud Desktop Client`_
* `Nextcloud Android App`_

.. _`ownCloud Desktop Client`: https://doc.owncloud.org/desktop/2.1/
.. _`Nextcloud Android App`: https://docs.nextcloud.org/android/
