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  1. Glossary
  2. ========
  3. .. glossary::
  4. :sorted:
  5. Nextcloud Sync Client
  6. Nextcloud Client
  7. Name of the official Nextcloud syncing client for desktop, which runs on
  8. Windows, macOS and Linux. It uses the CSync sync engine for
  9. synchronization with the Nextcloud server.
  10. Nextcloud Server
  11. The server counter part of Nextcloud Client as provided by the Nextcloud
  12. community.
  13. mtime
  14. modification time
  15. file modification time
  16. File property used to determine whether the servers' or the clients' file
  17. is more recent. Used only when no sync database exists and files already
  18. exist in the client directory.
  19. unique id
  20. ETag
  21. ID assigned to every file and submitted
  22. via the HTTP ``Etag``. Used to check if files on client and server have
  23. changed.