You can't have two folder sync if one of them sync all the account

[luciamaestro]

Expected behavior

You can have two folder sync, one folder sync only one folder and the other all the account

Actual behavior

You can have two folder sync, one folder sync only one folder and the other all the account

Steps to reproduce

1. Open desktop client
2. Sync all the account in one folder
3. Try to add one folder to sync only one folder

Server configuration

{"installed":"true","version":"7.0.0.4","versionstring":"7.0 RC 1","edition":""}

Client configuration

Version 1.6.3 rc! (build 841)

[luciamaestro]

CC/ @ogoffart

[guruz]

I agree, this is an artificial limitation that we maybe even need to do away with when we have selective sync.

CC @jancborchardt @MTRichards

[jancborchardt]

I don’t really understand the use-case for this.

[guruz]

Folder /Documents:
Folder: $HOME/Documents
Sync it all, I want to work on my documents.

Folder / (= an all sync)
Local Folder: $HOME/IAmABeatlesFan
Use Seletive Sync to (de)select a lot of stuff, e.g. select ony /Music/Beatles /Movies/BeatlesMovie Pictures/MyBeatlesConcertPics

Folder / (= another all sync)
Local Folder: /mnt/MyBigUsBDisk
Sync everything.

No matter what, currently we're limiting the user for no good reason.

[jancborchardt]

Ok, well seems like something so advanced that it should just work.

[MTRichards]

I track with Jan, I am not sure I understand the use case since we now have selective sync. BUT, I guess someone might want most of their stuff synced to one folder, and a few other things synced to another folder.

How do we keep from syncing their content twice?

[guruz]

How do we keep from syncing their content twice?

I don't see that as a problem. In my example above I used an USB disk because I've seen those feature requests before:
#1122
#1610

If your question plays on avoiding network traffic: avoiding that could be an optimization for a later stage.

[luciamaestro]

So I close it, and tracked #1122