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Ubuntu One - share a folder with all the subfolders recursively

Asked by cortexiphan

Hi,

I am about to migrate from Dropbox to Ubuntu One. Me and my fiancée both use Ubuntu. I am thinking about to share our photos just like the way Shotwell imports the files and organizes the files to folders and subfolders following the pattern: YYYY/MM/DD

You can see, that the maximum number of folders in one year is 1+12+365 ( or 366 in a leap-year). That is ~189 folders in avarage (assuming uniform distribution). That is way too many folders to righ-click and share. And there are also the same number of emails to click on, and accept the requests one-by-one.

It will be good to thing, to have a feature like Dropbox has. Sharing subfolders recursively makes more sense, than clicking myself through the folder-tree one-by-one. I googled for solution, but found none :( sorry for the rhyme :)

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Best Stuart Langridge (sil) said : 		#1

Ubuntu One will happily share subfolders. If you have a folder "Photos" and share that, all its subfolders will also be shared; you don't need to share all 189 folders separately.

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cortexiphan (84fernando) said : 		#2

I see, thx for the help. I think it would be nice to have this feature documented (tip in the U1 client, or faq in the U1 website). You know, we use Ubuntu in hungarian language. We havve no "Photos" folder. De default name for photos is "Képek" (i18n). This feature does not work on the "Képek" folder, but it works, if I create a folder named "Photos" as you wrote.

So, thx again, but to make it clear help people using languages other than english by documenting theese "hardcoded exceptional values".

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cortexiphan (84fernando) said : 		#3

Thanks Stuart Langridge, that solved my question.

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cortexiphan (84fernando) said : 		#4

After another 30 mins of trying I am very confused, and I thing your answer did not solved my problem at all.

To make it clear, I made a folder named "Photos" under ~/Ubuntu One (but the same thing happens if I create it under ~ and click on sync).

I created a subfolder sutructure under the Photos folder: aaa/bbb/ccc, so 3 levels. When I share the Photos folder, the folder aaa, and the content under it won't be shared. So it works only one level. My feature request is "unlimited level" subfolder structure sharing by one click.

I don't know what may I do wrong...

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cortexiphan (84fernando) said : 		#5

Sorry, after restarting my computer U1 got alive and started to sync.

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cortexiphan (84fernando) said : 		#6

Thanks Stuart Langridge, that solved my question.

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Cyr4x (marcinwlo) said : 		#7

Yes, Ubuntu sync a folder with subfolders after restart, but if you sync another folder, you have to restart again or run in terminal:

u1sdtool --quit
u1sdtool --start
while ! u1sdtool -c >&/dev/null; do sleep 30; done

That's not the way this service should work. I don't want to use terminal everytime i share something...