Please, please, PLEASE add syncing between local datastore and files in import

Open Verity-Freedom opened this issue 3 months ago • 2 comments

I want to see all my files here, but I can't do it...

Oct 02 '25 08:10 Verity-Freedom

@Verity-Freedom thank you for filling this, mind elaborating what is the user experience you expect?

The number listed as "Local Datatstore" is all blocks locally cached (includes pins, mfs, but also any data that is just cached temporarily and would be garbage-collected if you run ipfs repo gc).

Do you know 55 MiB of data got there?

If you add data via command line (ipfs add) you can pass --to-files to ensure imported data in also placed in MFS (Files view).

Oct 02 '25 18:10 lidel

you can pass --to-files

Well I didn't know this. I thought about this number as all the files that I imported, but after I already uploaded the files and can't see them, I wanted the way to bring them back inside webUI.

Oct 02 '25 22:10 Verity-Freedom