readycloud windows app - PC sync destination folder

You should be aware that once the readycloud does start syncing it takes a really long time to set up its profiles before it starts transferring files, ok if it is just a few files but 600gb of music took forever, and it looks like nothing is happening so you are tempted to click things like the refresh button, which rstarts the whole process (dooh!). Try it on a linked folder which is relatively empty, then once you find it works you can add other files folders into your linked folder.

Hi swiv3d

yes I noticed that it was taking a long time for the process to complete on my media ( music and videos ) folder, but all the while the "lights" were flashing was happy to leave it ( it is still going after nearly 12 hours but is now synching not indexing ).

my camera upload folder completed in about 15 minutes.

OK  -  here is a question...   is there anyway of synching sub folders  -  that is folders under entries in the list which appears in readycloud app.  I dont want to sync the complete folder list, but just one or two. ( for instance - under "documents" I may have 10 folders. but I only want to sync 5   -  but dont want to have to put those 5 as main folders to sync them )  probably asking for the impossible.

cheers

Rod

You just need to meke individual symlinks to the individual folders, eg

mklink /D "C:\Users\Jimmy\ReadyCLOUD\Documents\Folder1" "C:\Users\Jimmy\Documents\Folderx"

Folder1 can be any name you like.

I use symlinks to sync a flac file folder, a MP3 file folder and a wma file folder which appear to be sitting in a music folder in the ReadyCLOUD folder.

Hi wiv3d

ok  - yes  -  I get that bit,  but how do you actually start the sync?   the sub folder is not shown in the PC app list of folders. So cannot get to the drop down to start the sync.  or am I missing something?

As you may have guessed I am rather new to all this   -  so some aspects of the overall system are taking a little while to sink into my old ( 73 ) brain.

thanks for you continued help

Rod.

You will have for example a documents folder in the ReadyCLOUD folder under your username, within this document folder there will be a number of symlinks to individual folders you want to sync with. You don't need to sync individual sub folders, syncing the main document folder will automatically sync the sub folders within it. So if any of the sub folder contents change a sync will occur to bring all of the folders into an up to date condition.

Do be careful about deleting stuff at either end of the symlinks, deleting something from the nas will delete it from the main computer too, and vice versa.

Ok old fella, so you got 6 years on me.

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Yes  -  I think I got that  -  my media folder contains umpteen subs  -  and they are all being synced ok.

but I dont want to sync all the folders in for instance my documents folder  -  just 5 out of the 10 sub folders.  I can create symlinks to the sub folders under my users\rod\readycloud,   but if I then sync the main document folder, it creates that link and syncs the whole structure  -  doesnt it ?   havent tried it yet cos dont want to waste time.

Ahhh   but did you have 40 years as a communications software engineer?    I did - and I still get lost in some of todays technical stuff :-(

Only the folders specified in the symlinks will be synced. So I set up a series of symlinks to folders on my E: drive which show up as symbolic folders in my ready cloud folder. So I have in my ReadyCLOUD folder apparent folders called Music with sub folders flac, MP3, wma, these link to only some of the folders in the music folder on my E: drive so only these folders are checked and kept in sync. Remember as well that you must link to actual folders on the computer you cannot link to Windows libraries as these are already symlinks themselves. So my pictures sync folder links to E:\Photography, not E:\ Pictures which is Windows own symlinks to my photography folder. Symlinks to symlinks are not allowed, in fact they would be a disaster waiting to happen!

Good luck and I hope everything works for you.

Found this in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ReadyNASRemote\cloud.config

<ReadyDropFolderPath z:Id="4">C:\new_path</ReadyDropFolderPath>

Changed the path from deafult to whatever and it seems to work.

Hey  - thats great.   will give it a try.

makes we wonder why the experts didnt know about this and tell me......

cheers

This solution is fine as long as everything you want to back up is in the new location, if you want selected folders to be backed up you will have to use symlinks.

I have the latest relase on both my ReadyNAS 6.4.1 and on my Remote applicaiotn but I never managed to sync anything. The application seems to run syncing or indexing forever and I meen several months now.

I finaly found the application from Microsoft SyncToy that does exactly what I want. You can setup a folder on your local pc ot sync against a folder on ReadyNAS.

For my androoid devices I use FolderSync.

Finally a year after I bought my ReadyNAS I managed to sync my devices.

Happy New Year

Nikolas