VGrive Exclude files/directories from sync

Exclude files/directories from sync

Open x80486 opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

I think it would be extremely useful to be able to filer/select which files/directories to exclude from syncing back to Drive.

Example of this are, for instance, those .~lock.file_name.ods# files that LibreOffice create when you edit a file that's in a location being synced. We don't really need those so it would be great if VGrive has a way to skip those.

Last but not least, thanks again for developing VGrive and make it open source :trophy:

Nov 30 '19 14:11 x80486

Forgive me if this is obvious. The way GDrive works now, there is local client called "Backup and Sync." In the cloud there are separate storage areas, one for each computer you connect, called "Computers" and a common "My Drive"

"Computers" is tied to a specific machines. You select which folders on your computer you want to keep synced. The folder names are typically identical across multiple machines, "Pictures" "Documents" and so on, but the folders in the cloud are unique to each machine.

Separately you might have a another local folder called "Google Drive" that is synced. Using the desktop client you can select which subfolders in Google Drive you sync. These go into the common area and will be shared across any number of devices similarly configured. Some, all or none of the folders may be common to another machine. If they have the same name they get shared across machines. The is the section that VGrive connects to.

The issue with VGrive is there is no option to select specific subfolders. As soon as I connected, it started to slurp up every file in the "My Drive" section of Google Drive to my wee tiny Linux box. Whoa! I just want to back up specific folders.

From a VGrive design perspective this could be either a sync to the "Computer" or the "My Drive" section, but the latter is a more general solution.

Thanks for your efforts!

Jan 19 '20 17:01 apsteinmetz

Also think that it would be extremely useful to be able to filer/select which files/directories to exclude from syncing back to Drive. Hoping that it gets implemented. Thank you.