Syncing multiple folders

Troubleshooting
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Hello,

Can you please advise how can I sync multiple sub folders from within a folder. Say a folder has 20 subfolders, and I would like to sync a few of them. As of now the only way I can do this is by right clicking on each one and choosing to sync and then repeat the process with every other folder (one by one).

Is there a way I could select all the folders I want to sync and then sync them all in one go.

This seems like a very basic feature. Am I missing something here?

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Hi @subhashishkar,
Multi-select + right-click-> is a limitation in odrive. If you attempt to do it it will only sync one of the selected items.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Has this been fixed? on Mac.

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I have a folder with 700 folders and each of the 700 folders has about 5 files each. So I am trying to select like 10 at a time and right click sync with subfolders, it only does the first one of 10 I’ve selected.

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@nicholas,
This is still outstanding. Are you wanting to sync down all 700, or is your use case that you need to sync 10 specific folders, every so often?

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No, I can’t just sync the main folder because if I download all 700 files it will be over 2TB and my hard drive is not that big. So I need to do 50 at a time then unsync.

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Hi @nicholas,
I see. Since this is on a Mac we could probably script up something really quick. Are the folders named in a predictable pattern that could be used to segment to groups of 50?

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Is this problem solved yet. I have to transfer Data between to oneDrive Accounts and there are a lot of subfolders…

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Hi @randolf.hoffmann,
If you are trying to sync a whole drive, you can select a top-level folder and choose a recursive sync: https://docs.odrive.com/docs/sync-your-odrive#section--sync-all-files-and-subfolders-

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Perfekt! That’s what I was looking for. THANK YOU so much :slight_smile:

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Hi guys,

Thought I’d highjack this thread instead of making a new one.

I was wondering if this funtionality has been added yet? I was just trying to sync certain folders within many and oDrive seems to only want to download single folders at a time.

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Hi @swilkie1983,
This is still a limitation.

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Is this something that will be resolved in odrive2?