I'm wondering about "Receive Only" folders

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I’m not really good at matrix’ing, but I guess, instead of every user tells a story with a lot of words, you mean something like this?

(Maybe it is possible in this forum to build a table, but I couldn’t get it to work, so I just made a screenshot and a numbers form (numbers is excel for mac osx))

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On the left side (column B), we can name all the cases we can think of, which will break or destroy data on all syncthink-folders.

Column C+D is the syncthink-behaviour right now.

Column E is for us, the screaming users, which want to get the “receive only” thing implemented. So lets try hard, because life is short. :slight_smile:

I guess, if this is something we can build on, find a somehow equally terminology, we could come to a better and sophisticated conclusion.

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Sisa,

This table is what I defined 8 days ago in this same thread. I just coalesced the table into 3 bullets. I did not include conditions where the outcome is self-evident. I combined behavior that is the same.

For example, the behavior of “folder not on-line” is sort of self-evident (nothing synchronizes).

Also, any mod can be seen as an add and a delete.

Any add/deleting a folder is the same as adding/deleting files.

An empty folder is the same as a new folder.

Etc…

After combining all these into a simplified rule set, it comes down to the 3 bullets I named. But, of course, I might have forgotten something, so check the 3 bullets and challenge me with any situation you can imagine, and I’ll try to explain how it fits one of the 3 situations I named.

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Why don’t you guys weigh in on A proposal for a receive-only folder type