Given a file id, is it possible to find the system path on the host system?

[tbrittoborges]

I would like to find the path to a given file on the host system:

from nc_py_api import NextcloudApp

nc = NextcloudApp(
    base_url="https://your-nextcloud-instance.com",
    user="your-username",
    password="your-password"
)

# 
file_id = 123456
file_path = nc.files.get_path(file_id)

I understand there are permissions issues, so assuming the users has admin privileges, would it be possible to find the host system path to a file stored?

We have a solution using the Nextcloud database, but we would prefer to replace that.

[bigcat88]

Do you need to find a file by fileid and you don't know to which Nextcloud user it belongs?

If this is the question, then the reply is no, using Nextcloud WebDAV this is unfortunately impossible.

[tbrittoborges]

Thanks for the prompt answer.
Assuming we are admins/root, know fileid and the file owner, would it be possible to find the path to that file on the Nextcloud server file system?

[bigcat88]

    file_info = nc.files.by_id(123)
    print(file_info.full_path)