Folder Sync - Android

[soniraj]

Any chance of getting sync facility in android like in desktop version?

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately there isn't enough screen space on a typical phone for the sync user interface, sorry. Also unrooted Android doesn't support to copy the file timestamp, so the two sides would never actually be the same.

[soniraj]

So is there an option to delete the files on target if the name does not appear in source. Do not compare with time stamp, use only file names for syncing. (Shift+F2 option in the desktop version)

[ghisler(Author)]

No, unfortunately there isn't, sorry.

[soniraj]

Any plan of providing this feature in future.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I don't see how I could provide this on such a small display, sorry.

[drbensch]

I would like to have this feature as well. For me a one-way-sync (with deleting) would be great. What I do is:
I have a media-folder (music+movies) on my android-smartphone which i synchronize with a special "smartphone-media-folder" on my computer, but the main folder is the one on my computer. On my computer i sort everything and then synchronize it with my android-smartphone. So i don't want to delete everything and copy everything again, just because i deleted some files or re-sorted some subfolders. So for this the dates of the files are unimportant.
Now i use the copy-command, and when there are only slight changes, i have some doubles, when i have more changes then i delete the complete folder an copy everything again.
By the way: A great function would be to sync folderpairs automatically, f.e. when i'm at home (f.e. recognized by wifi-name); 1. copy all my pictures to my computer, 2. sync my media-folder...

[ghisler(Author)]

A great function would be to sync folderpairs automatically

I think a cloud backup function would be more useful here...

[drbensch]

You're right, something like nextcloud or seafile sounds better to do this job automatically (I don't like cloud-services that are not in my own hands).
But some folders I would like to sync manually on demand.
So if it's not a big thing, could you implement this function "one-way-sync (with deleting)"?
Or is there a plugin which does this?

[ghisler(Author)]

No there isn't. You could just copy in one direction and choose "Overwrite all older", but it wouldn't delete files no longer present in the source folder.