Haider of Sweden Posted December 8, 2016 Report Share Posted December 8, 2016 Hello, I am a rather new user and I am learning new things all the time. Recently, I linked an amount of my computers into My Devices. For the sake of learning, I set them to different types of syncing. The one that is set to Sync All will receive data without any manual input. If I want to share a folder to someone outside My Devices, how do I prevent it to be part of My Devices? In other words, the computer with the setting Sync All shall not take part of this share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moe Posted December 11, 2016 Report Share Posted December 11, 2016 If you have a share, lets call it "Vacation Photos" and want to have a friend of yours read only access to that share so that he can receive all photos but won't be able to delete or add new photos to that folder, what you would do is create a link for that share and set it to read only mode. You send that link to your friend and he adds this share and only this share to his Sync installation. You will get a notification that he added the link and his PC will show up as an additional peer for that share in your Sync instance. He won't be able to access all other folders this way. Did this clear things up for you? If not let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haider of Sweden Posted December 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 Thanks Moe, what you explain, I understand. However, if I do share the Vacation Photos which are meant to the friend, my other computers that are set up as "Sync All", they will also be shared. I want to have separate shares, ie the ones for my friends are only for my friends and should be excluded from My Devices. Is that possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 On 12/13/2016 at 11:48 AM, Haider of Sweden said: my other computers that are set up as "Sync All", they will also be shared. No they will not be shared. But yes, they will also add "Vacation Photos" to their Sync, and, being in "Sync All" mode, will download all the files there. On 12/13/2016 at 11:48 AM, Haider of Sweden said: Is that possible? I don't think so. All devices from "my devices" list share same folder - you add/remove a folder on one of them, it appears/disappears on all others. That's the core functionality of "My devices". If you don't want it, just don't link devices and manually share the folders thru link/key only with those who the folder is intended for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haider of Sweden Posted December 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 Thank you Helen, I posted a suggestion in the request-forum, regarding offering this ability in future versions of Sync. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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