Desktop: [Feature Request] Do Not Sync New Server Folders

[Brailyn]

I use the client software to sync a very limited number of folders to machines. Most of the folders within the server connection are unchecked. Some of these machines have limited internet connections so I cannot have clients downloading huge files by default.

If I add new folders on my large-sync machines they will automatically be checked 'ON' to my limited-sync machines and downloaded.

I think it would be a useful feature to have a checkbox in the client software "do not sync newly created server-side folders"

This would save me the headache of these limited-sync machines from downloading +100GB or irrelevant folders... Hopefully others can agree with this.

[adam-ce]

duplicate of #10?

[michaelstingl]

@Brailyn Workaround: set max. folder size to 0

[seanbutnotheard]

What would be really nice is a server-side setting (perhaps via a plugin?) that could be set for each folder. For example, "Do not automatically sync this folder to desktop clients" or, even better, let a user or admin pick from the web UI which of their machines a folder gets synced to, with the default being "All clients." This would be a better solution in a corporate case like ours, where we have a lot of users and don't want to have to hit every user's machine to enable a particular setting in the client.

[julpec]

@michaelstingl This does not work. The client still adds a new directory created at the root to my synchronization

[eidermar]

I also tried the 0MB Setting but this doesn't work as expected at all. I'm on macOS client 2.5.0.

Scenario: A user creates a new folder which at this point is empty. The client immediately starts syncing the folder without asking for confirmation (probably because am empty folder reports a zero size?). The user then adds large files to the folder. The client (as it already established a sync connection) syncs the large file automatically to local machine. BTW even when the user drags a folder with content to the server I had automatic downloads happening, the client basically ignoring the size settings.

This is a really big problem, especially as there is no other way to prevent folders on the same hierarchy level (as already synced folders) from automatically syncing.

There should be a way to make selective sync possible. Otherwise TBs of data will downloaded from the server to my local machine. This must be a huge problem for other people as well. At this point this makes the client basically unusable.

Maybe if a new (empty) folder wouldn't be regarded as having no size the 0MB solution would at least be a rough solution to this problem?

[wolandtel]

What would be really nice is a server-side setting (perhaps via a plugin?) that could be set for each folder. For example, "Do not automatically sync this folder to desktop clients" or, even better, let a user or admin pick from the web UI which of their machines a folder gets synced to, with the default being "All clients." This would be a better solution in a corporate case like ours, where we have a lot of users and don't want to have to hit every user's machine to enable a particular setting in the client.

Also need this feature.

[szaimen]

Any update on this?

[julpec]

Yes, any update ?
This is a big problem for shared folders and large workgroups. Indeed, within a shared directory there may be a number of subdirectories that many collaborators would not want to synchronize.

[briankendall]

I regularly encounter this issues. Oftentimes when I create a new top-level folder I go into the web interface and log out every single desktop device so that I'm forced to log back in and manually tell it not to sync the new folder. It's quite a hassle and I haven't found a better way of dealing with it.

[gjbosbert]

How about being able to change a registry key? - if that is where the setting is stored. I would like to be able to set this on 150+ machines...