Improve Synchronization of big and shared folders

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Hello, I’m new to NextCloud and I’m using it to access my personal NAS and the connection to that is thru a WebDAV connection.

My WebDAV share has about 150k files in lot’s of folders and of course, the desktop client tries to sync every time I turn on the computer.

Is there a way, or could be implemeted, to sync the content of individual folders on request or when we navigate to that folder in explorer?

To avoid this long time and resources consuming sync, I can add the WebDAV location to the ignored file list but then there’s no point on using NextCloud…

Thank you!

Flavio

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Yes. Use the Virtual Files feature[1].

[1] Appendix B: History and Architecture — Nextcloud Client Manual 3.11.0 documentation

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After the initial sync, the successing syncs should be significantly faster (For me in the range of mere seconds).

Depending on your use case, there might be things to consider:

  1. Do you need all files? If not, you could disable these in the sync folder settings and save bandwidth and storage on the client.
  2. If you are on windows, I think (cannot test due to linux user) that you can create virtual folders that are synced on demand.