Symlink - Network Drives

Feature requests
#1

I can’t seem to make this work for Google Drive. It could be a limitation of Windows, but you should keep in mind that another product for Dropbox exists that allows easy individual folder syncing which is called Boxifier, and this is even with network drives. (Last I checked anyway.)

I was strongly considering moving from Dropbox to Google Drive because the latter is so much cheaper, but it seems so restrictive it’s insane. Why anybody would consider the 1TB+ options when the vanilla version doesn’t allow any freedom is beyond me. Alas, Dropbox Pro is also expensive, so I’m stuck here. If you have a workaround for network drives I’d appreciate that. You see, I have a NAS. The drives on my actual computer pale in comparison.

#3

Hi @Mantis, what is the issue you are experiencing while trying to use Insync?

#4

I want to be able to be able to sync data from my NAS—which has hard drives mapped as network drives in Windows—to Google Drive. Without this feature, unfortunately the software is useless. The NAS contains all the data.

#5

Will be tagging our engineer @dipesh to help you out with this :smile:

#6

Hello @Mantis,

Insync does support network drives to a fairly good extent. You can set up your main Insync folder on NAS or you could setup your main Insync folder locally and add the folders on NAS using symlinks or “Add to Insync” context menu feature. If your NAS goes down, Insync would pause syncing to that folder, while the rest of the syncing would continue.

There is one limitation while using Insync with NAS; Insync can miss some local file system events especially when changes to NAS are made from the other machine. However, Insync makes sure that these changes are not lost and these get uploaded upon “Force sync”/next restart/pause-resume or when the corresponding GD file changes remotely.

We are working on addressing this issue so that Insync does not have to rely on the above events to detect the missed changes.

EDIT: Warning, you must NOT share the folders on the NAS across 2 or more Insync app instances. Each Insync app instance should have its separate folders (not shared with any other syncing client instance including Insync’s).

Thanks