Icedrive taking focus when launching or starting to sync

Icedrive Discussion Feedback & Suggestions
#1

I am enjoying what I can get out of the free plan Icedrive offers, so first of all thank you for developing and maintaining this service.

Here’s my concern before committing into subscribing to a paid plan.

Whenever I start the app or the sync interval timer is hit and there are new transfer to make, Icedrive burst opens and closes a small window several times in a short time, and the focus is taken into that window then lost.

Let’s say I am writing in a text editor. Suddenly a long narrow window blinks out several times, and my typing is not registered to the editor anymore. I have to manually give it back the focus so I can resume writing. It’s often an Alt+Tab, or a mouse movement and a click. Considering I have set my interval time to be 5 minutes, it means I have to do this every 5 minutes if I am constantly working on a file that is included in one of the sync pairs.

Could this be avoided in the future? For now I am only launching Icedrive when I am sure I want to save the file into the cloud, instead of keeping it running in the background.

Thanks for reading.

p.s. The OS I am using is Windows 10.

#2

We are actually in the process of redeveloping our sync feature from the ground up and will be coming to our new drive app soon for beta testing. It will be a live sync so will working the background similar to Onedrive rather than the current interval system we have.

#3

Chris, I hope you are retaining the scheduled features the existing client as well?

I do not want / need ‘live sync’ because I have long gaps between changes.

I also do not want anything that hooks into my OS and runs permanently when I only changes files once a day or few days.