diff --git a/frontend/src/models/DirectoryModel.js b/frontend/src/models/DirectoryModel.js
index 9d37389ef..fbc1e1866 100644
--- a/frontend/src/models/DirectoryModel.js
+++ b/frontend/src/models/DirectoryModel.js
@@ -4,10 +4,27 @@ import { sanitize } from 'pankow/utils';
 
 const BASE_URL = import.meta.env.BASE_URL || '/';
 
-export function createDirectoryModel(origin, accessToken, api, ownersModel) {
+export function createDirectoryModel(origin, accessToken, api) {
+  const ownersModel = [{
+      uid: 0,
+      label: 'root'
+    }, {
+      uid: 33,
+      label: 'www-data'
+    }, {
+      uid: 808,
+      label: 'yellowtent'
+    }, {
+      uid: 1000,
+      label: 'cloudron'
+    }, {
+      uid: 1001,
+      label: 'git'
+  }];
 
   return {
     name: 'DirectoryModel',
+    ownersModel,
     buildFilePath(filePath, fileName) {
         // remove leading and trailing slashes
       while (filePath.startsWith('/')) filePath = filePath.slice(1);
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/Home.vue b/frontend/src/views/Home.vue
index 6e8428c85..d77971d72 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/Home.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/Home.vue
@@ -198,22 +198,7 @@ export default {
         busy: false,
         name: ''
       },
-      ownersModel: [{
-        uid: 0,
-        label: 'root'
-      }, {
-        uid: 33,
-        label: 'www-data'
-      }, {
-        uid: 808,
-        label: 'yellowtent'
-      }, {
-        uid: 1000,
-        label: 'cloudron'
-      }, {
-        uid: 1001,
-        label: 'git'
-      }],
+      ownersModel: [],
       // contextMenuModel will have activeItem attached if any command() is called
       createMenuModel: [{
         label: () => this.$t('filemanager.toolbar.newFile'),
@@ -553,7 +538,9 @@ export default {
     this.resourceType = type;
     this.resourceId = resourceId;
 
-    this.directoryModel = createDirectoryModel(this.apiOrigin, this.accessToken, type === 'volume' ? `volumes/${resourceId}` : `apps/${resourceId}`, this.ownersModel);
+    this.directoryModel = createDirectoryModel(this.apiOrigin, this.accessToken, type === 'volume' ? `volumes/${resourceId}` : `apps/${resourceId}`);
+    this.ownersModel = this.directoryModel.ownersModel;
+
     this.loadCwd();
 
     this.$watch(() => this.$route.params, (toParams, previousParams) => {