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Bug 473329 - Default folder path in sync services should be better controlled
Default folder path in sync services should be better controlled
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
: 546627 553038 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-03 21:36 UTC by Gabor Kelemen
Modified: 2010-10-19 23:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Gabor Kelemen 2007-09-03 21:36:20 UTC 
If I select Local folder syncronization type and click Browse, the default folder in the file selector is /. Accepting this default results an endless wait for acquiring sync lock, because normal users can't write /. Using ~ as default would make a lot more sense.
Comment 1 Sandy Armstrong 2007-09-03 21:47:24 UTC 
Well, neither / nor ~ are good locations, really.  The user should sync to a dedicated directory.  Perhaps we should enforce this somehow.

The endless wait definitely needs to be fixed.  What Tomboy version are you using?

Thanks for the report!  :-)
Comment 2 Gabor Kelemen 2007-09-03 21:53:29 UTC 
I'm using 0.7.5 from Ubuntu Gutsy. 

How about creating a dedicated directory by default, like ~/Notes or something like this?
Comment 3 Sandy Armstrong 2007-09-10 13:22:36 UTC 
I never saw an endless wait as described above, but that may have been due to some interim fix.

In r1515, ability to create/modify/delete files is tested when saving sync configuration, so the user sees an error earlier in the process.

Still haven't picked a new default path.
Comment 4 Sandy Armstrong 2007-10-15 07:08:47 UTC 
There is no good default location.  Syncing to ~ would be even worse than failing to sync to /.  Forcing sync to happen in a dedicated directory should be something to look at for 0.9.x.  Pushing target back, since I'm not fixing this for 0.8.1.
Comment 5 Boyd Timothy 2008-02-26 19:15:19 UTC 
Setting the default assignee and QA Contact to "tomboy-maint@gnome.bugs".
Comment 6 Sandy Armstrong 2008-08-06 17:28:57 UTC 
*** Bug 546627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Sandy Armstrong 2008-08-06 17:29:19 UTC 
From bug #546627:

"That being said, there is no good default folder because for a new setup you'll want a new empty folder.  Perhaps we should pick something like ~/tomboy-sync and offer to create it?"
Comment 8 Sandy Armstrong 2008-09-20 21:41:00 UTC 
*** Bug 553038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Sandy Armstrong 2008-09-20 21:42:23 UTC 
This is just as much of an issue for webdav/ssh sync when the user pics a non-empty directory, for example (see writeup of bug #553038).

Updating summary a bit.
Comment 10 Sandy Armstrong 2010-10-19 23:44:12 UTC 
Closing, this has become basically a duplicate of bug #558274.