[feat] One-Way Sync Option (on a per-directory basis)

[kn0wmad]

I did my best to search the existing issues for this feature, but did not see it. The search filter on GH seems to be awfully liberal. Apologies if I missed a duplicate.

Feature description

Option to sync a directory in only one direction, i.e. from client to NC server.

[marcotrevisan]

Hi,
just curious: in case of the client-to-server-only direction, how would you deal with server-side changes? Your local folder structure would soon become incompatible with the server version and the client-to-server updates won't work reliably.
The only way to make it work (in my understanding of your requirement) is to ensure that a) you're the only user of a server folder and b) your computer's desktop client is the only source of changes for that folder. Seems quite a borderline use case...

On the other hand, having a "read-only" client copy of some folders would be useful for sure in some scenarios, and would perhaps allow for some performance optimizations.

[kn0wmad]

With a one-way sync, the client would obviously not be concerned with server-side changes. For this use-case, the user would presumably not be making edits server-side, or at least not expecting those changes to sync to the client. For example, I often want to send files to the server, and then not keep them locally. In fact, I want this at least as often as a full sync, as the server has far more storage than the clients do. Hopefully this makes sense.

[sunjam]

Duplicate of

• Add one way sync #1090

[joshtrichards]

Duplicate of #1090