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Alrighty, good 10h work day again. Lots of new code, general bug hunting, random fixes and lots of UI tweaking. Pushes latest code to github http://github.com/jonnenauha/DropN90...efef56415fc2d8 if someone is interested.

Implemented synchronization today. Man this is one sweet feature. You can set your sync path anywhere to your dropbox! I have not decided yet on a few things, gimme some feedback here.

1. When you select a path /MyFolder/Photos to be synced. Should I only sync files in that folder only or recursively search all sub folders also for files. I understand that most would like the sub folders also. I think keeping it to that paths files only would make sense, and not roam deeper.

2. Do you want upload sync? How many of you think this would be necessary? There are few problems with upload sync.
The download folder where sync is done is the apps default data folder. This means when you manually download items from other places in dropbox to your default location, those files would now be pushed in the next sync as duplicates to your sync path to dropbox. The cleanest way would be to make a new non configurable sync folder to your device. You could not put manual downloads here to mix things up, I would suggest /home/user/MyDocs/DropN900-Sync or something similar. I can start making the upload sync once I have tought of it more, currently its only download sync and works beautifully.

3. Do we really need timer based sync? I already have this in the UI and config, but now that I think about it more. If you can just pop the menu down and hit "Sync" in 1 seconds do you really need automated sync with some time interval. You know best when you have changes in your sync location and can sync manually then.

I guess thats all. Hope you are not disappointed too much that its only download sync in the release. Uploading will be a bit more work and planning if we want it.

Jaykie: Added file size and duration of download counter to the transfers. Also sync downloads are clearly separated from manual downloads/uploads.

 

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