Sync folders + subfolders

iav commented 8 years ago

Currently option "make available offline" can be swiched only for files, not for folders. Need a way to do it ffor folder tree. And should be option to turn this off for some of subtrees.

OlivierS1 commented 7 years ago

I concur. "Set as available offline" should be extended to folders.

tobiasKaminsky commented 7 years ago

We have #285 where we describe how to improve the current system to a real 2way sync.

bkraul commented 6 years ago

Just migrated from owncloud to nextcloud and found the folder 'make available offline' feature is not available on Nextcloud for Android. Any plans on implementing? This issue seems to be almost 2 years old.

bkraul commented 6 years ago

@tobiasKaminsky I don't mean to come across as offensive, but help me understand something. Nextcloud broke away from owncloud in part because owncloud was not listening to the community in a way that furthered the product. But yet, here we have a an almost 2 year old issue still largely unaddressed (one that owncloud has supported for a good while). So my question is, is nextcloud really more community-aware than owncloud is? I understand a comment like this does not make me look very nice (and I apologize for that), but I am just curious.

TheLux83 commented 5 years ago

I want to throw my hat into this ring, too. I'm using Joplin and the direct synchronisation isn't very fast. So my idea was to make the whole Joplin folder offline available, but it seems, that this isn't possible. Please create a offline sync for folders!

Tonus1 commented 5 years ago

@TheLux83 Exact same use case here!

edmael commented 5 years ago

Hi, any news regarding this bug/feature request?

Having a whole folder available on the device is a major feature to have.

iottt commented 4 years ago

So I publish a doc and the phone does not open?? My God I installed it at school and now I find out that it doesn't have that much needed function!

iottt commented 4 years ago

I tried to open a doc and it is not possible, I looked for some resource and nothing causes the doc to open on android 9, the message says "Make the file available offline"!

tobiasKaminsky commented 4 years ago

@iottt can you open up a new issue please?

vincolus commented 3 years ago

I tried synching my selfmade ringtones / notification sounds via Google Drive to my Smartphone. It's about 150 files and clicking each file and manually downloading it would take longer than developing that feature, I guess...

Sadly though, this feature and topic seem to have been buried! I cannot really understand why, because it's nothing new and in my eyes nothing too difficult to implement. There is/was dozens of applications capable of doing so, for example dropbox, owncloud, etc. I even wrote my own, long time ago. One using wget and the later one using rsync.

So where is the big problem?

In linux you simply use rsync with the correct parameters, comparing modification date and creation date, ignoring permissions and that's about it! Heck, you could even embed rsync into an app that then does this for you I believe. If you still do not believe people need this, then check out these works. People did invest lots of time and trial-and-error to implement that

Google Drive direct download of big file(s) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25010369/wget-curl-large-file-from-google-drive https://github.com/circulosmeos/gdown.pl
Downloading files Using Drive API https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20665881/direct-download-from-google-drive-using-google-drive-api
Sync folder with Google Drive. Recursively downloads with wget and Google Drive public links https://gist.github.com/wernerb/7864141

So it seems google has had an API that was capable of doing that, but they removed those features. Still, people managed to code their way towards their goal. If that ain't dedication, then I dont know...

Passaita commented 2 years ago

Is there any change on the status or some workaround?

timkrief commented 1 week ago

This usually doesn't work for me, but I decided to try a minimal reproductible example and it did work:

Folder
|-- Subfolder 1
| |-- File.txt
|-- Subfloder 2
| |-- File.txt
|-- File.txt

I tapped sync for the main folder and everything synced. This was surprising to me because this did not work for other cases and I don't know what caused that, if that happen again, I'll try to investigate.

An issue is that there is no indication of the current sync status of a folder after the blue syncing one, even if everything is synced inside it doesn't show a green tick (I'm not sure but I think that was the case before).

Using version 3.30.2 Hope this helps.

nextcloud / android

Sync folders + subfolders #269