Questions/suggestions about folder sync UX #1723
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As I excitedly tried out the new features in prerelease.4, I accidentally deleted the contents of both a drive and another drive mounted to When this dialog came up, I clicked the
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Oof, sorry for the surprise behavior. I haven't exposed any UI for it, but you can also dig through the history of a drive to pull out deleted files. HMU if you ever need help recovering files. So, there's two tricks with foldersync. The first is whether it should be bidirectional or unidirectional. Currently it's the latter - the source folder syncs into the drive, but the drive doesn't sync to the folder. Bidrectional is a little harder to suss out, but if that's what people expect, I think I can make it happen. I'll need to think a little bit more about the UI and behaviors for that. The second trick is the mounts. Mounts add a bit of complexity... for instance, they can potentially go infinitely, so you can't just recursively sync all of them. If it's unidirectional sync, the answer is just to disable them from sync and they don't factor in. But if it's bidirectional sync, I figure I'll have to cook up a UI for configuring the behavior... ignore them? Sync one, but then what about the children? Etc. Either way, this is just one of those features! I knew there'd be rough edges and it looks like this is the first. I'll need to invest more time in it. For now, I think the solution is to first export the drive to your local folder. Then you can turn on autosync and (hopefully) it'll work as expected. |
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Oof, sorry for the surprise behavior. I haven't exposed any UI for it, but you can also dig through the history of a drive to pull out deleted files. HMU if you ever need help recovering files.
So, there's two tricks with foldersync. The first is whether it should be bidirectional or unidirectional. Currently it's the latter - the source folder syncs into the drive, but the drive doesn't sync to the folder. Bidrectional is a little harder to suss out, but if that's what people expect, I think I can make it happen. I'll need to think a little bit more about the UI and behaviors for that.
The second trick is the mounts. Mounts add a bit of complexity... for instance, they can potentially go…