[Owncloud] ownCloud Client 1.4.0. setup not possible to complete on windows

[Michael]

Please submit to the bugtracker here:
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues
Thank you for the detailed information. You can get your issue triaged and
remediated there.



On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Bjorn Madsen <
bjorn.madsen at operationsresearchgroup.com> wrote:

> Hep
> OCclient 1.4.0. can no longer be setup on windows without "Your entire
> account will be synced to the local folder 'C:\....."
>
> So for all the users I have which have 1-5 Tb of data, they will have to
> download the whole thing to their devices (which the data doesn't fit on).
>
> I have just followed a user who tried to setup his account with:
> 1. download and install
> 2. launch the OC app.
> 3. press pause as soon as possible
> 4. Bang << memory corruption error csync thread terminated.
> 5. 2-3 seconds later, windows error message: "OC has stopped working
> windows is attempting to close the app".
>
> I have just seen a user recreate the error that he cannot complete the
> setup of OC without crashing the OC app, and he wouldn't have any problems,
> if the default option did not force him to (now) download 4.9 terabyte of
> data before pausing the OC app. And he doesn't have 5Tb on his desktop.
>
> So what was missed?
>
> His usage of OC:
> 1. put large files in a folder called "upload".
> 2. when sync completed, open OC web.
> 3. use the "move" app to move it to the storage location (which is not
> synced back to his workstation).
> 4. done.
> Now he can't do that anymore.
>
> Google drive has the sync option "Only sync some folders to this
> computer". Why doesn't OCclient?
>
>
> --
> Bjorn Madsen
>
>
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