Windows Client data Folder location

[Marc Fargas]

Hi,

I was looking at Seafile to replace Dropbox but saw the Seafile data folder must be kept on the root of the drive, that means that a) it could not be used on a multiuser computer and b) it cannot be used on Terminal Services.

Are there any plans to make the data folder path customizable? I'd love to place it in the user's roaming profiles just as I do now with Dropbox (ie: every user has one single Dropbox folder on all the network, Dropbox client is happy with it).

Seafile ignores network connected folders (ie: NET USE x: \\myserver\myshare) even.

thanks,

marc

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[Lingtao Pan]

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 5:39:48 PM UTC+8, Marc Fargas wrote:

Hi,

I was looking at Seafile to replace Dropbox but saw the Seafile data folder must be kept on the root of the drive, that means that a) it could not be used on a multiuser computer and b) it cannot be used on Terminal Services.

Are there any plans to make the data folder path customizable? I'd love to place it in the user's roaming profiles just as I do now with Dropbox (ie: every user has one single Dropbox folder on all the network, Dropbox client is happy with it).

Yes, we have the plan. Now you can change manually as in https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/82

[Marc Fargas Esteve]

Awesome, thanks for the tip!

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[Marc Fargas Esteve]

Before messing up my folders,

On a networked environment, if I put the user data folder on a network share and the user logs in on more than one terminal server then...

a) seafish will start on both servers and corrupt all data

b) seafish will complain about file-locks and keep running on only ONE server

I mean, will it work or must I place the user data folder on the local disk and never share it between servers? Or can I "safely" keep it on a network share?

Thanks!

marc

[Lingtao Pan]

There is a hidden directory(seafile-data) in this folder for storing internal data, such as database and caches, that meant to be used only in this machine. So you should not share this folder among several machines.

2013/6/4 Marc Fargas Esteve <ma...@marcfargas.com>

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[Marc Fargas Esteve]

Ok. I'll skip keeping files on a share for now then.

On the multiuser point: Will seafile run multiple instances on the same machine concurrently? (I see there are multiple processes run by the agent). Or will it mess up not knowin which process belongs to each user?

I can't see side effects with 1 user but don't know what will happen if 15 users run seafile concurrently on the same terminal server.

thank you VERY much :)

[Lingtao Pan]

No, seafile can't run multiple instances, since they use the same local port.

2013/6/5 Marc Fargas Esteve <ma...@marcfargas.com>

[Marc Fargas]

Just opened issue #262 as a feature request (multiple users on one computer is common today).

thanks!!!

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