Feature requests: not syncing temp/system files and other things

[Vittorio Bertola]

Hello,

I've been using Seafile for a few weeks, with a Debian 6 Linux server and Gentoo Linux, Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.7 clients - it works really well.
There are a few little improvements that I would like to suggest.

1) There are some files that should be (maybe as a server-side or client-side option) excluded from syncing. They include:
- system preview files: for example Mac OS X .DS_Store and "dot filename" files. These files are only useful locally, can be regenerated locally if they are lost, and clutter the directories for clients accessing the same library from other operating systems, which may show them as additional files in the directory, confusing the users. It is just a waste of resources to store them in the cloud.
- temporary files: Chrome's .crdownload files, wget's .part files, lock files of Office applications, etc - these should not be synced.
Maybe the user could even have a tweakable list of non-syncable file patterns/extensions on the server, and make a choice for himself.

2) When I installed the Mac OS X 10.7 client, it did not configure itself to start automatically when booting and logging in. This should be done by the installation procedure, after asking for confirmation.

3) It would be useful if there was a user-friendly way to see the complete chronology of library changes, at least from the server's Web interface and maybe from the clients as well. Currently you can only see the very last changes, from the Web interface.

4) It would be nice to be able to access some per-library statistics, at least from the server's Web interface: e.g. total size and number of files, total bandwidth used in the last day/week/month, etc.

Thanks

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:10:11AM -0800, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been using Seafile for a few weeks, with a Debian 6 Linux server
> and Gentoo Linux, Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.7 clients - it works really
> well.
> There are a few little improvements that I would like to suggest.
> 1) There are some files that should be (maybe as a server-side or
> client-side option) excluded from syncing. They include:
> - system preview files: for example Mac OS X .DS_Store and "dot
> filename" files. These files are only useful locally, can be
> regenerated locally if they are lost, and clutter the directories for
> clients accessing the same library from other operating systems, which
> may show them as additional files in the directory, confusing the
> users. It is just a waste of resources to store them in the cloud.
> - temporary files: Chrome's .crdownload files, wget's .part files, lock
> files of Office applications, etc - these should not be synced.
> Maybe the user could even have a tweakable list of non-syncable file
> patterns/extensions on the server, and make a choice for himself.

I'd rather let the users handle that with the ignore file.

> 2) When I installed the Mac OS X 10.7 client, it did not configure
> itself to start automatically when booting and logging in. This should
> be done by the installation procedure, after asking for confirmation.
> 3) It would be useful if there was a user-friendly way to see the
> complete chronology of library changes, at least from the server's Web
> interface and maybe from the clients as well. Currently you can only
> see the very last changes, from the Web interface.
> 4) It would be nice to be able to access some per-library statistics,
> at least from the server's Web interface: e.g. total size and number of
> files, total bandwidth used in the last day/week/month, etc.
> Thanks

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Nicolas Sebrecht