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Be able to move whole sync folder
Owncloud creates the primary sync folder at
~/owncloud
If I move it to /opt the program does not finde it any more.
I would love to see a folder administration option in the client menu.
Thanks
Hello,
you can tell the programm to sync the folder /opt/owncloud rather than ~/owncloud.
I know that dropbox is offering this feature. But if you have the folder initially in the right place there is no reason to move it to an other place. If it is required anyway you can remove the old sync and set up a new one with the new local directory...it just needs some time to download all the files from the server.
Did I understand your request correct or is it something else you would like to do?
Best regards
Martin
See:
But if you have the folder initially in the right place there is no reason to move it to an other place. Especially on Windows, owncloud tries do estimate the place: %USERDIR%\owncloud
For reasons of privacy, I would prefer: %USERDIR%\files and folders\owncloud
So what do I have to do to achieve this?
- close client
- move folder in windows explorer
- delete older folder file from %APPDATA%%USER%\local\owncloud\folders
- set new folder up in GUI.
So in short: If the client GUI could handle:
- move folder to a new location
- remove folder sync
It would be great.
Riiight. Since we have the choice of which folder to sync to in the setup flow, it should also be in the general settings.
Currently we do not have a choice which folders are synced in the setup wizard. We sync the entire ownCloud to a local directory called ownCloud. We will have what we (and others) named "selective sync" later.
@dragotin as explained via chat, that's not what @timmie means. In the setup dialog we do have the choice of where to put the local folder (default to /home/user/owncloud). Hence in Settings it should be possible to change. Similarly as in the setup wizard, with the path on the button, opening a file picker.
This is a feature I'd like too. Was there ever any progress on implementing such a thing?
I also had someone ask me about this last week. You can: a) Stop syncing to /xyz/folder1 b) Move or rename the folder tree to be some new folder in a new place /abc/folder2 c) Setup the sync again, this time to /abc/folder2 It should find the existing files and work out that they are up-to-date without doing a full re-download. An automated place to do this would be handy for the "mere-mortal" user.
You might actually be able to help me with my problem. As I've moved more and more of my things over to ownCloud my ~/ has just become mostly symlinks to folder in ~/ownCloud. I figured for simplicities sake it would be nice to just have ~/ be my ownCloud folder directly.
I'd like this to be what I see in ~/ with the addition of ~/Downloads which I don't want to sync. I wouldn't want any of the hidden files or folders to sync either.
What would be the best way to set that up? I was thinking that it would involve the feature outlined in this issue but maybe there's something I've missed
Hello,
you can tell the programm to sync the folder /opt/owncloud rather than ~/owncloud.
I know that dropbox is offering this feature. But if you have the folder initially in the right place there is no reason to move it to an other place. If it is required anyway you can remove the old sync and set up a new one with the new local directory...it just needs some time to download all the files from the server.
Did I understand your request correct or is it something else you would like to do?
Best regards
Martin
trouble is when you first get it going you maybe unaware of the location it intends to use as default. Esp if there was an old ownCloud folder in there (I assumed it would read config from the old one) . It would be nice to have an easy way to move the sync folder.
Docs:
- https://doc.owncloud.com/desktop/5.0/faq.html#i-want-to-move-my-local-sync-folder
https://doc.owncloud.com/desktop/5.3/faq.html#i-want-to-move-my-local-sync-folder
