Let’s give the users a choice for a folder to be one way sync’able if so they desire. It doesn’t sound like a tall order to enhance the client with the one way sync option, irrespective of there being some alternatives that are unwieldy to set up such as rsync or rclone. Missing one way sync contributes to unnecessary disk space usage remotely by files already moved or deleted locally that isn’t reflected in the local file system.Enabling a way to delete data that shouldn’t be stored anymore remotely, without the extra hassle of manual deletion.That way, the nextcloud client doesn’t parallel commercial services in terms of having a mirrored copy of whatever is available locally. Without a one way sync, the nextcloud side will contain multiple copies of a photo or movie as soon as users move those around, the end result being a mess of files on the remote end that should have got deleted when the user removed them or moved them elsewhere.from the camera folder to a more specific one, deleted altogether or just moved around as the user wishes. Taking account of the fact most users enable sync in the android nextcloud client for photos/movies sync chiefly.Google photos or other services having one way sync built in and thus there being a reasonable expectation from users for nextcloud client to work in a similar way.Nextcloud client being touted as a replacement for sync services from google/m$/samsung/etc.There are a couple of reasons a one way sync with remote delete if a file got deleted locally makes sense: I’ve just opened an account to ask whether the android client can be improved by adding a one way sync, including a remote delete feature as soon as files are removed locally.
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