nested sharing

[atte]

Hi

Is nested sharing possible/recommended/evil?

Example:

/home/atte/photos is synced through secret 1

/home/atte/photos/summer_2013 is synced through secret 2

Reasons for doing this:

1) selective syncing a subset of files (only secret 2) to a smaller laptop, while keeping everything (secret 1) in sync on a backup box

2) sharing a single folder(secret 2) within a larger structure (secret 1) to friends, possibly using a one-time secret

[atte]

/home/atte/photos is synced through secret 1

/home/atte/photos/summer_2013 is synced through secret 2

Or even better:

/mnt/usb/atte/all_my_data (secret 1)

/mnt/usb/atte/all_my_data/photos/latest (secret 2)

/mnt/usb/atte/all_my_data/mp3/currently_listening_to (secret 3)

Everything is on home server, backup at a friends house through secret 1. Laptop 1 is sharing a subset (secret 2 + 3), laptop 2 is sharing an even smaller subset (secret 3).

[GreatMarko]

"nested" sharing isn't current supported. There's been quite a few topics on this subject already, including this one

[atte]

But with .Syncignore something along those lines could be achieved. When a btsync binary is released that doesn't crash on my geode CPU, I'll investigate...

[GreatMarko]

But with .Syncignore something along those lines could be achieved.

Well, it's been tried before, and it doesn't work - .SyncIgnore files need to be identical at all ends - if they're not, you'll find files get deleted.

As I say, at present, "nested" shares are not supported - and .SyncIgnore doesn't provide a "workaround" to this.

If you wish to share some of a parent's sub-folders with certain devices, and other sub-folders with others - the only solution at present is to not Sync the parent folder, but create individual syncs for each sub-folder - that way you can individually share these sub-folders with your selected devices.

[Camaban]

in the meantime, could try using links. Might work.