[Owncloud] Renaming / moving folders

[Markus Goetz]

On 10.05.13 12:33, Robert Sander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is the correct way to rename or move a folder in ownCloud?
>
> Is it possible to rename / move a folder (possibly containing hundreds
> of files) on a client and the sync-client notices this and moves the
> folder on the server?
>
> Or is it necessary to do such an operation via the webinterface because
> the sync-client is not able to detect it?
>
> We have observed a behaviour where we think that the sync-client is only
> able to detect that a folder has been removed and a new folder is
> created causing it to upload the contents again. If that upload
> operation does not finish soon enough other sync-clients may run into an
> unclean state as they see both the old and the new folder.
>
>

There is a branch of csync [1] which supports that, but it is not 
integrated into the ownCloud csync/mirall yet (and it also needs a patch 
applied to the PHP part [2]).

bye,
Markus Goetz

[1] http://git.csync.org/users/ogoffart/csync.git/log/?h=rename_folders
[2] http://pastebin.com/mGyFz7fC