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Open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux
https://maestral.app
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Always allow editing excluded list, not just when idle #958

Closed Hubro closed 6 months ago

Hubro commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I wanted to install Maestral with selective sync, since i only wanted 2-3 folders out of my 30+.

However, during the initial setup, when selecting which folders to sync, I accidentally pressed "Enter" when I tried to check my folders, which proceeded with 0 folders selected.

Maestral now went into "Indexing..." status, during which I wasn't allowed to edit the excluded folders list.

$ maestral excluded remove /personal
! Cannot include item. Please try again when idle.

This is extremely frustrating, because I know indexing may take a long time, maybe hours?

I come back the next day, indexing is done. Ideally I would have all my folders synced by now, but I wasn't allowed to edit the excluded list.

I try to remove the folders I want from the excluded list:

$ maestral excluded remove /personal /images /dotfiles
Error: Got unexpected extra arguments (/images /dotfiles)

No way... Please don't tell me...

$ maestral excluded remove /personal
✓ Included '/personal'. Now downloading...
$ maestral excluded remove /images
! Cannot include item. Please try again when idle.

No... NOOO! I actually have to finish syncing 1 directory at a time, then come back and remove another one from the excluded list? This is going to take ages.

Describe the solution you'd like

The excluded list should always be editable, or at the very least multiple edits should be possible at the same time, so I don't have to spend hours or days slowly editing my config.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Don't fuck up the initial setup... Hopefully I won't next time.

Additional context

samschott commented 6 months ago

Passing multiple items to maestral excluded add | remove is now supported. Regarding modifying this list while indexing and syncing, this is a duplicate of ~#958~ #303.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 6 months ago

https://github.com/samschott/maestral/issues/958#issuecomment-2016792961

@samschott, you've linked https://github.com/samschott/maestral/issues/958#issue-1840988001, this issue, as a duplicate of itself. XD

samschott commented 6 months ago

Argg, I meant to link #303.