Hi,
Been using insync for a few years and V happy with it. Installed it on a few different linux machines/ fresh installs and never come across this before. My files in the top level folder on GoogleDrive are showing up / synced successfully but none of the folders are even showing.
Tried to upload my log.db file but got an error msg saying it’s not an allowed filetype; my out.txt file is present but blank. Here’s a bit of system info:
** — info 1 — **
$ uname -a
Linux ThinkPad 4.13.0-36-generic #40~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 23:25:58 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
<< latest LTS of xubuntu, fresh install then insync was the first package on top of that >>
** — info 2 — **
$ insync --version
1.4.5.37069
<< I downloaded the insync version for 64bit ubuntu 16.04, which is what xubuntu lts is based on>> —end info —
Solution tried: From 2015 I found a forum post suggesting to ‘chmod o+x’ the folder :: did that but no better. ?next step?: My current idea is that I was thinking of uninstalling the insync version for my xubuntu 16.04 distro & re-installing with the latest 18.04 version of insync - but will that break things?
(1) In ans to your Q - when I installed insync IIRC I didn’t have to - or have the option of - right click to select the Google Drive folders. I simply had to select (left click) the top level cloud folder.
(2) When I go into the insync dialogue box / pop-up thing (from the toolbar icon) I can’t see any option to refresh the cloud folder or select sub-folders.
(3) I’ve tried things like get-status , force-sync and update-shares from the CLI :: but again can’t see what settings / config needs correcting for my subfolders.
(4) several reboots :: interestingly new shares keep appearing intermittently after reboot :: these are all files in the top level folder that weren’t downloaded before ===> so it almost looks like a small proportion of the files / folders are identified every time insync launches and then they are synced
Any more ideas please? I’m getting a bit desperate because I can’t really do any proper work on my new laptop (and I’m away from my desktop). Trying to use the gdrive web interface is just a nightmare at the best of times but especially with work spread across about 100 directory trees .
Found a fix - posting for anyone in future - quite easy in the end, just had to poke around the CLI till I found: insync set_selective_sync <GdriveEmail>. That brings up a self explanatory terminal where you can select folders from the cloud that you want to sync locally. for some reason all of my subfolders were “deselected”.
Just in case this helps you track down some code …
There’s one difference I can think of between my previous installs and the current one;
PREVIOUS: I’ve always created my target local folder before running the insync install / first use script. Eg /home/USER/PersGDrive and /home/USER/WorkGDrive.
CURRENT: I forgot to set up the folders in advance. So I was v pleased when I noticed the option to create the folders within insync first use dialogue … I clicked on the suggested local foldername /home/USER/VeryLongEmailAddress in the setup script and the xubuntu standard file selector dialogue box came up and I clicked the create new folder icon in that dialogue.
==> I wonder if there’s something weird happening when the localfolder is created by invoke-native-file-selector from within insync?