The old version I was able to setup specific folders to SYNCH automatically, the new version synchs everything that is shared with me. This is rediculous. I can’t believe that one of the best features has been removed from the tool set. Please restore the ability to choose what to synch.
@terpua@insyncher
This software was wonderful, before the most recent upgrade. Now it is no longer usable.
I am using the new 1.4.3 linux version (Ubuntu 16.04 - 64 bit) of insync, and I can confirm that selective sync is no longer available. There is no “google account”, “Manage”, or “Selective sync” anywhere to be found in this software.
This (oversight?) has now rendered this software useless for me. Please restore the ability to choose what to sync so I can continue using this software.
@terpua, thanks for trying to help. Unfortunately you must have a different version of the software on your computer. Here is what happens when I install insync v 1.4.3 on ubuntu 16.04 64 bit:
Install insync
it asks me to sign into my google drive
so I sign in
it asks me which folder I want to use for insync
so I tell it
it immediately starts syncing all 3 TB of google drive folders from my google drive.
so I pause the sync, I don’t want 3 TB of folders on this computer (thousands upon thousands of folders, I am letting it try to sync all of them (against my better judgement) 50k folders so far, this is ridiculous why is it forcing me to put 50 k folders on my computer). This is the reason I paid 30 something dollars for insync…
i start looking around for ways to stop it from syncing all the folders. nothing
you tell me I can go in and individually tell it to “unsync folders”
so i right click on a random folder as you say
the only option i have is to “sync entire folder”, “sync to a separate folder”, “share” “get link” “rename” “view on drive” or “create new”. No option to “unsync” as you are telling me. I have a feeling if I let this thing continue syncing all 3 TB of folders, THEN I would have an option to unsync. But as I mention before - I really do NOT want thousands of folders on this machine.
Can you please just tell me how to download the old version?
I have the same issue on Windows 10. By default it tries to download everything; the only way I was able to get it to stop was to go into the OS file explorer, use the Insync right-click context menu, and tell it “Selectively unsync”.
It’s odd that I’d have to actually leave the Insync file explorer in order to manage Insync’s selective sync options.
I agree with OP; this is not a good UI/UX decision. Those of us with large Google drives that install Insync on say, a laptop with limited space, should have a preliminary option to default to ‘files on demand’.
Sorry about this issue. In 1.4.3.37063 build, all the My Drive items get sync’d by default. We’ll push a fix to it soon so that they don’t sync unless you explicitly choose them to sync (or unless you’ve the “Sync new children of partial folders” checked).
“Shared with me” items and “Team Drives” don’t sync by in the current build and we will retain this behaviour.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience that this issue has caused.
If I want to unsync one these folders, I now first have to tell Insync that it is synced, to then tell it to unsync. Which is just not user-friendly. And to add to this: I get no feedback from the interface that my choice (‘unsync’) was accepted. The folder just return to its ‘unmarked’ state…
Checkmarks only appear after I went to the Insync client and individually marked all folders as being ‘synced’ and then unselecting the folders that I did not needed to have on my local drive.
So, just make clear what I had to do
Installed 1.4 on a newly installed laptop
Insync immediately started to sync all files and folders
After everything was synced, the client showed no checkmarks. Checkmarks did appear in Nautilus however.
I could not ‘unsync’ in Nautilus, but had to go the client to manually click on each folder to mark them as ‘synced’ and then reselect them to ‘unsync’.
I need urgent to have the option to select what I will synchronize before starting the synchronization.
mark sync and then uncheck 2TB of unsigned data is impossible.
We have released Insync version 1.4.4 that doesn’t sync any top level My Drive item unless you choose it to sync or unless you’ve the “Sync new children of partial folders” setting enabled under “Folder settings”
If Insync is still in the initial phase of syncing/processing the files+folders that you do not want it to sync, you can re-setup syncing and sync the desired items one by one: