sab34 Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Adding a new sync on device A creates a new folder in the default folder of device B. Request: ask user of device B where the new folder should be created, and allow sync to non-empty folder (as is possible in BTSync 1.x). The latter is probably the most common case for people migrating from btsync 1 or from other services... [i know this is on the radar, but I think this is important enough to deserve its own thread]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Adding a new sync on device A creates a new folder in the default folder of device B. Not if when you add a new device you set it's default behavior to "Available" instead of "Connected" - that way you can select a different location for each share you subsequently "connect" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moe Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Not if when you add a new device you set it's default behavior to "Available" instead of "Connected" - that way you can select a different location for each share you subsequently "connect"True. Although I feel like syncing to a non empty folder, basically merging them and not syncing doublicate files, is something that should be possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Although I feel like syncing to a non empty folder, basically merging them and not syncing doublicate files, is something that should be possible. Indeed it should! I believe it's a bug in the latest 2.0 alpha builds - if you have two linked devices set to "Available" (rather than "Connected") and you add a folder to one, if you then try to connect the corresponding folder that appears on the other device and specify a non-empty target folder for it, the folder doesn't "connect" (and doesn't tell you why either). The expected behavior is that Sync should instead warn you that you've selected an non-empty folder and ask if you wish to proceed or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadillacace Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 How would this be handled in the API, where no GUI is enabled? Our plan is to have this working in the background, with the end user to have no access to the GUI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 How would this be handled in the API, where no GUI is enabled? Our plan is to have this working in the background, with the end user to have no access to the GUI. You can specify "force=1" with the "add_folder" API call. Please see this article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadillacace Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 You can specify "force=1" with the "add_folder" API call. Please see this article. Yeah, I found that article this morning. Thanks for the response! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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