Download all files in a folder

[laryllian]

Heyho,
imagine I have an audiobook with 30 files in my owncloud and I will go on a (looong) train ride soon, where I would like to listen to it. How do I download them? Currently this involves 30 click+return-to-folder moves, which is crazy.

Solution: Add another menu item "Download entire folder", which downloads all files that are either missing locally or are not up to date locally.

Thx for your time
Laryllian

PS. Related: #116

[davivel]

Our real target is #3 , but this is a necessary previous step to get there, so let's keep it open.

We ** need ** to add this. We didn't close #116 because we don't want it, but because it's too old now and difficult to merge. And we didn't merge it at first because we need to be able of cancelling the operation ** as a whole ** , in a way consistent with the current download for files.

[jancborchardt]

Closing as duplicate of #3

Only downloading without keeping them in sync would quickly result in you having a lot of unsynced outdated files on your device. Not desirable.

[laryllian]

I would really like to decide that by myself. Audiobooks, Photos or Music will definitely not change and that is what we talk about. If the overhead is really small I would not mind always syncing my music folder (some gigs), but if there is an impact, I'd rather choose not to.

[davivel]

I see the point of @laryllian here. There are files (heavy files !) that probably won't change in a lot of time. There is no need to enforce they are automatically kept in sync by the app, but it's not acceptable that the user needs to download them one by one.

Even if some of those files change in the future, the app could test this when the user tries to open them (this feature is already requested somewhere), without need of motiroize the full folder.

Give the users the option to choose seems a good point to me.

Besides, as a developer, the implementation is clearly separated. Let's keep this open to implement as a first step of #3, because it adds its own value for the users.

[MorrisJobke]

I would also like to see that in the client. 👍 Thanks guys :)

[jancborchardt]

But I think we agreed that we’ll rather do this right directly with »Favorites«, right? We have too few resources to do the stop-gap first.

[jochenwezel]

Hey guys, I assume you might consider this feature being worthy to be supported :-)
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1333011-download-all-files-in-a-folder

[jochenwezel]

An alternative might be an option in settings to Auto-Select all new folders/files as "favorites" to force them being downloaded immediately (and the user can un-select specific folders if he doesn't need them).
Otherwise, the download-all-button should be there...

[dajusc]

👍 for this feature request!

[Ixtalo]

+1

[masensio]

This feature will be available in the next version of the app, 1.7.0.
At the moment is in the develop branch.

[MorrisJobke]

\o/

Is there a rough ETA?

[davivel]

@MorrisJobke, in the current week. Cross your fingers ;)