Granular Selective Sync

[niij]

It appears that selective sub sync is now available for the community version. But it behaves in a confusing manner where the selective folders are synced to the ROOT of the seafile directory, instead of the directory tree being built out to the selected folders. Basically what @seanmadsen was talking about in #239 . Dropbox and Onedrive build out the directory structure correctly, if a reference is helpful.

If you have the below directory structure and want to only sync the 2015 files you will have 2015Tax and 2015Audit in your seafile/ root directory.

• seafile/
  • Taxes/
  • 2014Tax/
  • 2015Tax/
  • Auditing/
  • 2014Audit/
  • 2015Audit/

Current behavior when syncing 2015Tax and 2015Audit is:

• seafile/
  • 2015Tax/
  • 2015Audit/

Expected behavior:

• seafile/
  • Taxes/
  • 2015Tax/
  • Auditing/
  • 2015Audit/

[shoeper]

Selective sync for folders is currently handled as for libraries. They can be synced with any folder on the computer.

As I understand you idea is to preserve the directory structure as default proposal.

[niij]

preserve the directory structure as default proposal

That's exactly what I'm proposing and you said it much clearer than I did. Now that I think about it, that should be really easy to implement. Perhaps I'll look into the code and open a PR, if you think that is a good idea to preserve directory structure?

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Selective sync for folders is currently handled as for libraries. They can be synced with any folder on the computer.

As I understand you idea is to preserve the directory structure as default proposal.

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Selective sync for folders is currently handled as for libraries. They can be synced with any folder on the computer.

As I understand you idea is to preserve the directory structure as default proposal.

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[shoeper]

From my point of view the idea is ok, but I don't decide anything and cannot merge PRs.

@freeplant can answer you whether he would merge it or not.

[eemil]

👍

This is a killer feature, I was disappointed to see it didn't work as OP is suggesting.