Files-Folders-owncloud-PA5

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2013-10-29, 23:47:43, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 22:20:07 Wolfgang Romey wrote:
> > I think, PA4 is not in a state , where we can handle it that strict. There
> > is  at least one important app, that thinks in folders: owncloud. owncloud
> > wants to sync folders!  It makes no sense, to sync the complete mer folder
> > to owncloud. I sync the *folders* muisic, documents, pictures ... and all
> > the folders, i have on my laptop and want to sync to the tablet via
> > owncloud.
> > 
> > There is probably no easy  way to solve it . Maybe there could be a tag
> > "sync  to owncloud" which in combination with other tags syncs to folders
> > on owncloud without creating folders in PA4. As I wrote, no easy way to
> > get
> > rid of foldes in PA4. Obviously files looks into folders an presents the
> > conted in another way.
> 
> That struck me as well. I've tried to fix it some time ago, but it really is
> not that easy technically. The synching library and owncloud itself is
> folder- based, changing that would need very intrusive changes to the
> system. I'm not in a position to do that.

Couldn't it work with something like:
- creating a temp dir
- symlinking or hardlinking the respective files into it
- sync
- delete links
- copy remaining files (new in sync)
- remove empty temp dir

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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