[Owncloud] IMAP was: upgrade from 4.5 to 5.0 lost all files

[Mark Symonds]

On Mar 28, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Jakub Moscicki <Jakub.Moscicki at cern.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>> Syncing is not magic that guesses what you need. It has a policy of operation. Owncloud uses a very simple one, but it is clear: it is time based, so yes, it will wipe all your local data if the files on the server have recently disappeared.
>> 
> 
> I am looking for a complete and up-to-date reference which describes the *intended* synchronization model in ownCloud. Do you know if there is one (apart from the ocsync source code)? In particular, what happens if time in not up-to-date on all clients, or if the clock on a client is manually adjusted (in the future or into the past) or if a clock drifts in time. This is normal in heterogeneous distributed environments.

I know this might sound crazy, but what about using a derivative of IMAP (libkimap4)?  

People already have "folders" in their email, it's been working well since forever, and so on.  

-- 
Mark