Mountain Duck integrated mode no automatic sync

[svenniemann]

Mountain Duck 5.0.2, Mac OS 15.7, using SMB in integrated mode, indexing activated.

Files only seem to be synced/updated when manually selecting reload on the folder or when the folder is opened in Finder (it takes a little while then, but it happens)

I would expect this to happen automatically for anything. Having to do this manually doesn't make any sense to me. Am I missing something?

[dkocher]

For folder contents to refresh for changes from the server it should take no longer than

• 1 minute for currently open folders in Finder.app
• 10 minutes with Preferences → Sync → Index Files enabled for any folder previously opened

[svenniemann]

Index files is enabled and I for sure waited much longer than 10 minutes, but nothing was synced :(

[svenniemann]

also: having stuff only synced if the folder is or was opened makes the whole tool completely useless.
It needs to properly sync everything. Otherwise what is the point of it? Having to manually open everything that was changed? no way

[mrhaoxx]

It's clear that for most protocols Mountain Duck support, there's not a file changed "notify" interface from the server side. So it may be difficult to implement a always sync function without scanning the whole remote, which could be too expensive for the network and battery.

But I suggest adding a feature that, let the users decide which "folder" to always update on the background. The users then may have their needed folders synced without manually openning the folder in finder. Also, it's possible to let the users to decide the refresh interval, which could make the sync more flexible and usable.