Global Pause-Option

[stonerl]

Is was wondering if it would be possible to implement something like a Global Pause-Button. At the moment it is possible to pause syncing for single Folders. The motivation behind this request is, that I sometimes tether my notebook with my phone an I don't want owncloud to sync during this time.

I know that I also could quit owncloud and restart it when I'm back on a "normal" connection, but having such a pause option would be quite handy. Maybe this Global Pause-Option could be configurable, like:

Pause for: 10min, 15min, 30min ... "resume manually"

Edit (@danimo): The implementation should also contain a possiblity to pause/unpause from the command line as to hook it up to scripts, see #2760.

[eslngr]

I have to pause very often to prevent application (photoshop, after effects) crashes and/or file-corruptions and found entering the settings very annoying over the time. Also quitting or logging out is no option because i still like to be notified about changes to other files that are made.

[te-online]

+1 for this enhancement. Might not be too hard to implement, as there already is an option to pause every single account.
If you regularly work while being on mobile data plan, you don't want owncloud to sync big stuff. My solution for now is to quit owncloud for that time, but than I often forget to start it again afterwards.
An option to only sync files under 2 megabyte or so would be awesome, but maybe overkill.

[danimo]

Feel free to continue on the branch I pushed (some code that I had lying around half-baked and ported to master now). The following is missing:

• Blessing of the approach by @jancborchardt
• Some kind of reflection of a global pause state in the settings/status dialog
• Persistence of the pause state across restart
• When paused, replace "Up to date". That's not true when paused, because we do not know.

Who wants to pick this up? I'm glad to help. It should only require basic programming skills.

[danimo]

This is how it currently looks:

[te-online]

Looks great. I might try to look into it to see what I can do by end of next week.

[danimo]

@te-online Also, the local pause option should maybe be renamed to Enable/Disable again, so it's not too confusing.

[jancborchardt]

@danimo can you show a screenshot of both states – when it’s paused and when it’s running?

[danimo]

@jancborchardt No, I don't have a build of that branch at hand. if it's running it shows whatever state there is as an icon, and the checkmark in front of "Pause syncing" goes away.

[jancborchardt]

Ok, that seems to be the best solution. If we would change it to »Syncing paused« it would create confusion as how to unpause.

[jancborchardt]

(I’d still prefer the »Pause« button on the same line as the Syncing / Up to date, but I know that’s probably not possible cross-platform. ;)

[te-online]

Sorry, it seems I don't have any time to look into this at the moment. It might be a one-liner, but I'd have to set up the whole development environment, because I didn't work on the client so far. When there's more freetime, I will be happy to have a look at it.

In the meantime, everybody feel free to implement it. :-)

(I’d still prefer the »Pause« button on the same line as the Syncing / Up to date, but I know that’s probably not possible cross-platform. ;)

Even if it was possible, I don't see any space there. There are advantages of having it on a single line. It's always accessible, no matter what syncing state is being displayed.

[danimo]

Related: #2760

[guruz]

For the record, DropBox:

OneDrive:

(it even has the Sync now proposed in #2158)

[guruz]

@dragotin mentions in #3185 (comment)

In the light of multi account however, global probably means by account.

IMHO we can still do it globally and have it pause all accounts.

[danimo]

For reference: this is in the https://github.com/owncloud/client/tree/global_pause branch.

[guruz]

Even more relevant now given that we have multi-account support..

[martin-rueegg]

👍 for the global option

use cases:

• since ssl transport gets interpreted as real-time traffic, it blocks everything else. yes, i'm aware of the bwlimit, yet i want to set the upload bwlimit to let's say 80% of the line's capacity (otherwise i will never upload my 100GB!). this is usually enough for http GETs [and DNS requests in the first place] to go through and the download is not the problem. yet, getting an incoming VoIP-call requires me to reduce the load on the line, thus a global (not per-accound) pause.
• same when on the road with my notebook. yes, i can quit the owncloud client, but then i have to remember to restart it. seeing the "paused" icon in the tray helps me to remember.

(client: Version 2.1.0 (build 5683). Windows.)

[JKawohl]

Is this done and can be closed?

[dragotin]

Obviously....

[martin-rueegg]

Fantastic! Thanks.