Markezzzzzo Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 Hi. I just had a drastic accident while deleting large files from synced folder which was set on PAUSE one my end, however all files got deleted on other end too! 100% Recovery is not possible. Just no comments.... PAUSE is not really pausing sync, just pausing upload and download! This is horrible logic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexC Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 @Markezzzzzo Did you check archive folder on remote peer? https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754239-Using-Archive-for-file-versioning-and-restoring-deleted-files- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luomat Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 11 hours ago, Markezzzzzo said: PAUSE is not really pausing sync, just pausing upload and download! This is horrible logic. This really is a terrible design flaw. If syncing is paused, I expect that to mean that changes I make locally have no effect remotely until I resume syncing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexC Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 @luomat I agree with you. It's far away from being perfect. Currently the only option to pause syncing is to shutdown Sync completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy+ Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 I didn't know that either, so it also could have happened to me. Pause is Pause, nothing should move when indexing is running, that's enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexC Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 @Andy+ @Markezzo @luomat Quote Pause implies that only bits downloads/uploads are stopped. It means that - zero sized files will be synced either way; - paused peers won't download/upload anything;- file's deletion will be synced either way; - new files will be rescanned and indexed, i.e. share size will increase accordingly on a paused peers. https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/206217325-How-to-pause-syncing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy+ Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Thats call "Pause"??? Only downloading is stopped or paused. This is a good example for a strongly needed update to v2.6.4. For me "Pause" is to stop all activities around the main tasks of a peer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexC Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 @Andy+ If you want to stop all activities you should exit Sync. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy+ Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 That is clear now after open this thread. The point is, that up to now the users understand the term "Pause" in this way, that all stops, otherwise it must call "Pause Download" or any specific like that, so the understanding is, only the downloading stopps. That is something different. And as you can see, this can cause damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luomat Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 If I wanted to stop all activities, I would quit Sync. But if I want to stop activity in just one folder then PAUSE ought to do that, not some other definition of PAUSE that NO ONE WOULD EVER ASSUME because to everyone else in the world PAUSE means PAUSE not PAUSE SOME THINGS BUT NOT OTHERS. This is either a bug or a terrible idea by some engineer. As the feature now exists, it should not be called PAUSE under any reasonable definition of the word PAUSE which a normal person would take to mean “Nothing will happen to this folder until I tell it to resume." The ability to pause some folders (and leave others syncing) is one reason that I chose Sync instead of Dropbox. If I wanted to have to quit the app to stop all syncing, I can just use Dropbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexC Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 @luomat Pause is about stopping uploading/downloading files. It's not about stopping syncing. Its purpose is to save bandwidth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luomat Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 Go out and ask 100 people what “pause” means in the context of an app that syncs files, and let me know how many of them come back with your definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexC Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 21 hours ago, luomat said: Go out and ask 100 people what “pause” means in the context of an app that syncs files, and let me know how many of them come back with your definition. @luomat I know the results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luomat Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 Well, if you know the results, then the wording should be fixed. If you think that they’d come up with Sync’s definition, you’d be fooling yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexC Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 21 minutes ago, luomat said: If you think that they’d come up with Sync’s definition, you’d be fooling yourself. @luomat You are definitely right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markezzzzzo Posted December 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) On 12/16/2019 at 2:05 PM, Alex. said: @Markezzzzzo Did you check archive folder on remote peer? https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754239-Using-Archive-for-file-versioning-and-restoring-deleted-files- Unfortunately due to very large file sizes archiving was disabled on both ends. We recovered some data using ssd recovery tools but some got missing forever. I did not realise that Pause is there to save Bandwidth.. and I agree with most users that this function is misleading and is a great UX flaw. This logic means that to stop syncing 1 of 10 folders I either have to shut down the entire sync or remove the folder from the list... Hope this topic will get enough attention at dev's end.. edit: why is the status set as solved? There are no promised updates on this issues. The problem is NOT solved Edited December 23, 2019 by Markezzzzzo +misleading tag "solved" - it is not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desc Posted May 15, 2021 Report Share Posted May 15, 2021 I ran also into this drastic issue. WTF is it syncing modifications while being paused? It's absolutely worthless to call it "pause synchronization" if it does synchronize modifications to the other ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desc Posted May 15, 2021 Report Share Posted May 15, 2021 I ran also into this drastic issue. WTF is it syncing modifications while being paused? It's absolutely worthless to call it "pause synchronization" if it does synchronize modifications to the other ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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