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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 127831
Owner: ----
Closed: Jun 2018
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EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Toggle a folder to be available offline for all containing files.

Reported by ghost.zb...@gmail.com, Jun 25 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Currently, I need to manually select non-google formatted files (my use-case is syncing .txt files) for them to be available offline on my chromebook.

What is the expected behavior?
It would be extremely valuable if I can flag a folder to sync all contents to the hard drive, thus allowing me to store all of my text files and allow for offline editing and then syncing when there is a network connection available.

What went wrong?
Manually syncing each file is not viable, as it is too easy to fall out of sync.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version:   Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

I know this is a feature, not a bug, but it is the only thing that is short-handing my chrome os experience and seriously hurting my workflow.
 
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Owner: ew...@chromium.org
Could you please take a look? I think this is a feature request outside of sync

Comment 3 by ew...@chromium.org, Jun 29 2016

Cc: ew...@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Owner: ----
Can you help elaborate a bit?

- What do you mean by "manually select"? Select in what UI?
- When you say "flag a folder," what exactly do you mean by that?

It's not clear to me that this is related to Chrome Sync.
I will compare the chromeOS sync functions to the google drive windows desktop application.

In my use-case, I have the google drive windows application installed on 2 different computers.
I take notes on one machine and save them as text documents into my 'notes' folder.
I have the 'notes' folder set to auto-sync to google drive.
This uploads them to my drive cloud account, as well as saving a copy to the hard drive on my second computer.

In the case of chromeOS, the text files do not automatically save to my hard drive for offline editing.
I can use the default file explorer application, right click a file and set to 'available offline', but I would much rather right click an entire folder and set it to 'available offline', rather than selecting specific files.

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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 30 2016

Labels: -Needs-Feedback Needs-Review
Owner: ew...@chromium.org
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "ewald@chromium.org" for another review and adding "Needs-Review" label for tracking.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 6 by ew...@chromium.org, Jun 30 2016

Components: -Services>Sync
Owner: omrilio@chromium.org
Are these files that you're saving to your Drive folder? I'm not familiar with CrOS UI, but this doesn't sound like a Sync request, I think it's either a CrOS or Drive request.

Removing the Sync component, and adding omrilio@ for triaging (maybe you can help find the right home in CrOS)?
Cc: abodenha@chromium.org
Owner: mitsuji@chromium.org
+mitsuji, for files.

Comment 8 by dchan@google.com, Sep 3 2016

Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 9 by cda...@chromium.org, Mar 13 2017

Labels: -Needs-Review
Cleaning up "Needs-Review" label as we are not using this label for triage anymore. Ref bug for this cleanup 684919
Components: Platform>Apps>FileManager
Owner: ----
Labels: CrOSFilesFeature-DriveSync CrOSFilesCategory-Offline
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Mergedinto: 127831
Status: Duplicate (was: Available)

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