I already read some posts regerding FreeFileSync, but never an answer by IceDrive Team.
The IceDrive sync mechanism for sure is perfect, but I want to have full control on what I m mirroring in the cloud. That s because I want to use a complete (full featured) file sync tool and not the internal one.
The problem seems to be quite simple:
FreeFileSync (and I suppose other tools too) works creating temp files and as soon the transfer is completed, it renames them.
IceDrive starts to sync the temp file and locks it
At this point FreeFileSync rises an error
It should be enough to control by IceDrive setting a sort of include / exclude file patterns.
With this setting, for example, temp files can be excluded from the IceDrive sync process so the external tool can complete the activity. As soon as the file is renamed because ready, IceDrive will be able to sync it.
@IceDrive: could you tell us if you intrested to solve the problem?
I m evaluating your product, but if no solution to this problem, honestly I will start to evaluate others.
It’s difficult to comment on FreeFileSync as it is a third party program and so have no control over how our sync feature will interact with it. However, you can exclude files/folders from our sync via the following;
You can exclude a folder from syncing by creating an empty file named “.icedriveignore” inside this folder.
As a result, this folder will not be uploaded or downloaded.
You can create this file in both local and remote folders - the result will be the same.
You can exclude a file from syncing (which means no upload or download) if you create a file named “.icedriveignore.[filename]” in the same folder as the target file.
For instance, to exclude “textfile.txt” from syncing, create an empty file named “.icedriveignore.textfile.txt” in the same folder.
I’ve got the same problem on Android with FolderSync Pro. I didn’t even want to use a 3rd party app, as I don’t with Windows, because there is a functional sync capability within the Windows IceDrive app. However, I am forced to with Android as I do not see any folder sync capability with the Android app. I am very surprised that apps on different platforms have very different capabilities - there should be equal features on the various platforms.
My problem is that over Webdav, I can sync my files to Android when the cloud has the newer file, but cannot sync them back to the cloud when Android has the newer file. It fails. Is there a write restriction over webdav or how can I resolve this?
