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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-size: medium;">Hi, </font><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">I'll try to reply, because I also have a big issue here, too much problems for a single bug repport :P</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">The documentation says : "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">First it is important to recall what syncing is. Syncing tries to keep the files on both repositories the same. That means if a file is added to one repository it is going to be copied to the other repository. If a file is changed on one repository, the change is propagated to the other repository. And also, if a file is deleted on one side, it is deleted on the other. As a matter of fact, in ownCloud syncing we do not have a typical client/server system where the server is always master.</span>"</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">Thus in theory, it should works as you describe.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">In practice, it won't. I have tried same simple use case and most of them break (Note : I test mostly larges files, more than 200 Mb, but let far enough time to complete a download - or a removing...). For example :</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">- I put some files on the client, they sync on the server. But after multiple client reboot, I saw multiple "conflict" files (the files haven't changed at all)</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">- I put some files on the client, they sync on the server. If I remove them on the client, they stay on the server.</div><div>- I put some files on the client, they sync on the server. If I remove them on the server, they stay on the client.</div><div>- I put some files on the client, they sync on the server. On a second client, they don't appear anywhere.</div><div><br></div><div>This, and some design choices, make the client almost unusable. It's only ok to sync some file from a client to a server. But even for this task :</div><div>- the client sync the file given the file's date, and ignore the file hash. So it seems it will sync if just the date has changed</div><div>- the client sync/upload the file even if the file already exists elsewhere on the server (a simple hash database would avoid this, and use a copy instead of downloading/uploading a whole file)</div><div>- the client seems to scan the whole directory every x seconds, thus take a lot of CPU/disc ressource. It's unusable if you have, for example, 20'000 photos :D . Syncing only the changed files based of access history would avoid this</div><div><br></div><div>Etc. etc. :D</div><div><br></div><div>It seems to me there is a lot of (re)design work to do here, before having a Dropbox-like storage cloud. The OwnCloud client is NOT ready for any serious usage for now. Even for just sharing files with friends, the multiple "conflicts" files are quiet odd :p</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><off-topic, judgement> OwnCloud is a very great tool, and very promising. A lot of great job has been done. But it certainly need to focus on stabilising the key features before adding new funtionnalities. </offtopic></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Philippe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 13:43:59 +0100<br>> From: sat@dispromedia.com<br>> To: owncloud@kde.org<br>> Subject: [Owncloud] sync files with 2 sync clients<br>> <br>> Hi all,<br>> <br>> I'm testing the last Sync client for windows with the last release of <br>> owncloud 4.5.1a, and I've got one question:<br>> The case is that I've got 2 laptops, and I want to sync the same folders <br>> and files in the two laptops with the same owncloud account, it's possible?<br>> <br>> Testing this case, if I upload one file to my owncloud folder <br>> "synclient" account with Laptop 1 then Laptop 2 don't sync this file <br>> (Laptop 2 don't download files uploaded with Laptop 1)<br>> <br>> Thanks and sorry for my english<br>> Congratulations for all your work, Owncloud works great!! ;-)<br>> Xavier<br>> -- <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Owncloud mailing list<br>> Owncloud@kde.org<br>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud<br></div> </div></body>
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