With the Raspberry Pi 4/400 getting more desktop support (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Raspberry Pi OS, etc.), having Insync available for ARM64 devices would be a definite plus!
I have a Raspberry Pi 400 running Ubuntu and would definitely appreciate easy syncing to my cloud accounts.
We’ve been getting a lot of requests for ARM64 support as of late and it’s definitely gotten our attention!
Who else wants ARM64 support?
What does “Sync on demand” mean here? Is this what other cloud providers cal “Smart Sync” eg where we would be able to access files on the cloud as if they were local files, but without needing to actually have them strored on our devices? That for me would be the most important feature, especially since there is currently no sync application/service that supports this cross-platform.
As for cloud services, I think Dropbox would be cool to add, but I don’t see much use in S3/Glacier since they would be much more expensive than the likes of Google Drive and Dropbox and not nearly as useful for the average user. What I would be very interested in is if InSync could be used as a sync client for NextCloud! Being able to have Google Drive and NextCloud syncing in a single client would be a killer combo for me, especially in combination with some sort of “Smart Sync”-like functionality.
Yup, that’s exactly right.
NextCloud is an interesting choice! I’m curious though, what’s your use-case for Google Drive and NextCloud? Why the combination of Google Drive and NextCloud? What does your workflow look like?
I store my documents on Google Drive, because I like Google Docs/Sheets/Slides/… and it means I can mix-and-match regular files with Google Docs documents.
The reason I specifically like NextCloud is because there are several providers out there that cloud-host it, as well as I can self-host it. NextCloud, and even its external hosting providers, tend to be fairly privacy-focused, so I can keep in control of where my data that I would sync with NextCloud ends up.
I use synced cloud storage for 3 main purposes;
So for me, my ideal setup would look like this;
I voted ‘Others’. Honestly, I just would like to be able to use the same local filesystem destination for sync under any OS. That is, sync reliably to ‘d:\Google Drive’ under Windows, or ‘/mnt/D/Google Drive’ under Linux, which are the same file system entity on both.
It would be so helpful when dealing with dual or triple boot situations. It seemed like this was being considered, but it’s gone quiet since then : New Insync version 3.3.4
While I’m not the direct recipient of the question, Nextcloud makes sense for me too.
My reason is much simpler: Our office allows personal files to be present in our systems and we have an internal Nextcloud instance for document management.
In my case InSync (in theory) allows me to use a single client for all my cloud needs:
I’d love to install and use a single client for all of my cloud accounts. Also, if you can deliver smart sync for Dropbox on Linux, it’d be a serious motivator for them (not that I’d switch back to official client). Dropbox is treating Linux as a third class citizen for some time.
Also, if you can deliver smart sync for Dropbox on Linux, it’d be a serious motivator for them (not that I’d switch back to official client). Dropbox is treating Linux as a third class citizen for some time.
Agreed. I used Dropbox for Linux for many many years and I ended up switching to GDrive + InSync. I was very reluctant to pay Google for a cloud service that they do not provide a cross-platform sync client for (under the motto of “vote with your wallet”), but I figured GDrive + InSync was a better option than Dropbox where the only updates they’ve done to their Linux client over the past 10 years have been to remove features, while bugs that were present 10 years ago still exist to this day. I prefer giving my money to smaller developers like InSync that actually have a vested interest in making a good product, instead. “Smart Sync” in a cross-platform cross-cloud sync client would be a killer feature.
This is just a thought I’ve ben having for some time and I don’t know how practical this is (it depends on how the abstractions in InSync’s codebase work), but for me it’d be really cool if InSync could work on a “plugin”-based model, where InSync provides the sync client itself and the basic integrations (GDrive, OneDrive, Dropbox, …) but third-party developers (like myself) could write integrations for different cloud services and make them available to other users. This is probably a huge stretch, but it would allow InSync to gain true compatibility with pretty much every cloud storage provider out there.
Failing that, take my vote for NextCloud + pCloud integrations 
The more cloud storage services the better (so long as the core product doesn’t suffer from it.)
Nextcloud and Google Photos for me. I currently use rclone for this and while it works, the user experience is slightly less than satisfactory. Nextcloud support would have me switch back to inSync in a heartbeat.
I would greatly appreciate ARM64 support for ARM-based windows devices! Running the app in emulation works well enough, but it does sip up battery quite a lot during so.
Also, I’d Insync to pause updates when in battery saving mode like what OneDrive does.
Delta Sync/Differential Sync.
I work with large files. Having to re-upload a 100M-1G file every time I make a small edit really prevents me from using Insync as a “single sync client”
Pleaseeee allow to disable adding an extension to extensionless files based on their MIME type on Google Drive!
insync --disable_adding_extensions_to_extensionlessfiles=true
would be fine by me!
It would be good in my opinion if you fixed the UI/UX
Please work on the flatpak option for Linux. A previous user in the forums has already given you a small list of changes that need to be made. Flatpaks are portable (runs on nearly every distro) and secure (sandboxed). I’m running an immutable system so I can’t use the rpm for installation.
Yes - M1 native code (ARM64).
Also - more insight into the sync status. I’ve shared this in another thread and Mia has captured it. Basically, be able to see how many MBs, or even better how much time, is left in the sync queue. The current sync pullup is “interesting” but because the scroll bar refreshes constantly, the screen jumps all over the place and you can’t actually see what’s happening.
Honestly, InSync as an amazing application, and I love it more everyday, but it can be much better with some quality of life enhancements.
etc.
i’m happy to say that the flatpak option is something we are working on…
Thank you so much! Really missing it in Fedora Silverblue.