search

spacedriveapp / spacedrive

Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
https://spacedrive.com
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
32.16k stars 942 forks source link

Nested locations currently not suported #2772

Open Fusion opened 6 days ago

Fusion commented 6 days ago

Check for other issues

Issue description

When I click the path next to the top folder icon, I get this message.

image

Steps to reproduce

See above

Platform and versions

Development tool versions (optional)

Stack trace

No response

Additional context

No response

Code of Conduct

linear[bot] commented 6 days ago

ENG-1938 Nested locations currently not suported

fogodev commented 6 days ago

Already tracked, and we're still not sure how it will be supported (or if it will be supported to begin with). It will probably depend on user's demand for this feature. Especially because re-indexing a nested location with a ton of duplications, and a ton of duplicated sync messages doesn't make much sense, as these data would already be available in the parent location.

iLynxcat commented 6 days ago

Before we close this, I want to clarify and understand a bit more about this.

  1. Do you already add another folder within your user folder as an indexed location such as /Users/chris/Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc?
  2. If yes, were you trying to add both those subfolders and the parent user folder as locations, or did you expect them to merge?

We could definitely stand to improve the user experience in this situation, and I'd like to better understand what the existing state was and what your expectations were.

Fusion commented 4 days ago

Gotcha. I now understand what the issue was. Indeed I had added Documents (and another called Downloads) to my locations list. I thought there were acting as shortcuts, not realizing I would cause double indexing.

Fusion commented 4 days ago

Hmm I just realized: image