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Content of some subdirectories from Mac directories are not being synced #255

Closed amarendra closed 9 months ago

amarendra commented 9 months ago

I am syncing the entire ~/Pictures Mac folder to a Filen remote folder in "local backup" sync mode.

Inside it there is a folder Photos Library.photoslibrary that does show inside the remote folder but it has no other files folders synced inside it. It just shows No files or folders uploaded yet.

~/Pictures has other sub folders, including a very similar sub-folder Photo Booth Library folder, and these get synced as expected.

I have tried pausing and resuming the sync. Adding the ~/Pictures folder sync again after removing. Nothing works. I have not added any kind of exclusion config either.

Unsynced Photos Library.photoslibrary folder:

Screenshot 2023-12-02 at 11 19 02 AM

Correctly synced Photo Booth Library folder:

Screenshot 2023-12-02 at 11 19 22 AM
amarendra commented 9 months ago

I believe this issue is critical. Because I am not getting any error or warning or anything information that might suggest something is not getting synced. It shows completely synced. That means I am not sure we can trust the app to sync everything.

Dwynr commented 9 months ago

Files inside the proprietary macOS photo library folders are not directly exposed to other programs reading those libraries. Unless we find a hacky workaround there is no way to read it with normal system calls (.readdir).

amarendra commented 9 months ago

@Dwynr

They have faced similar issues here https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/5303

Or is it related to Filen desktop app permissions by any chance? Anyway, have you folks explored it? Mac users will have that as a very important use case because that is how iCloud photos are saved on Mac and that is the way to backup those files.