Am 19.02.2016 um 16:52 schrieb Chris Green: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:27:09PM +0100, Klaas Freitag wrote: >> Am 19.02.2016 um 14:07 schrieb Chris Green: >>> When I open my Owncloud Client (version 2.1.1) the 'Add Folder Sync >>> Connection' button is greyed out. If I hover the mouse over it then >>> the tooltip says:- >>> >>> Add folder is disabled because you are already syncing all your >>> files. If you want to sync multiple folders then please remove >>> the currently configured root folder. >>> >>> Well, I removed the "currently configured root folder" but as soon as >>> I add a folder back then *it* becomes the "currently configured root >>> folder" and I still have the same limitation that I had before. >> >> If you sync the _entire_ ownCloud to your desktop you can not pick a >> subfolder from that additionally to sync. >> > Er, what "_entire_ ownCloud"? I maybe understand you but I'm not sure. > > I'm starting from scratch and I haven't put *anything* into the file > storage. I want to simply select (say) two folders from my home > directory on my desktop (say /home/chris/bin and /home/chris/holidays) > and share them with my laptop. Can't I do that?
Yes, indeed you can! The easiest is to do it like that: - open the Web interface of your ownCloud - create two folders "bin" and "holidays" on the server - in the sync client folder config, pick a local folder on the first page - on the second page of the config dialog, you will see the two new directories on the server, pick the one you want to fill with the local content - ACK that - Do the same for the other one. The sync client will upload the contents of the local dirs to the storage. ownCloud by default 'thinks' the other way round, as in "you want to sync the data from the cloud to your client". The good news is that also the other way round is possible. regards, Klaas > > I don't really want to share any of the stuff that comes by default, I > want to share things on my desktop, laptop, etc. > > >> Imagine your ownCloud has the folders "Documents" and "Music" besides >> many others. You could pick "Documents" to sync to a local dir, and >> additionally "Music", that way you would have two sync dirs with that >> server. This way you would not pull huge amounts of data that you do not >> necessarily need to your client. >> > But it still doesn't allow me to select the folders that *I* want to > put there, it just allows me to select some of the ones that OwnCloud > has put there already! > > > I think this is where I got to last time. OwnCloud really doesn't > seem to do what I'd expect when it offers file sharing. I can't select > *existing* files on my system and share them, that's surely what one > should be able to do. > > > Sorry if I sound rather negative but I do think this is something that > OwnCloud has got wrong in its design. > -- ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff, Frank Karlitschek Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
