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gabriel
Asked: 2012-04-23 01:53:59 +0800 CST

Ubuntu one syncing only folders and no content!

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I know that anyone could say that this question already exists but my problem still exists. So what do you suggest?

I have a folder in my laptop and i want it to be accessible from my desktop and my other devices.BUT only sub folders are syncing and no content of them.

Thanks, any help would be great!

sync ubuntu-one files

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  1. Best Answer

    For copying files Ubuntu One needs read access. You've to check if Ubuntu One has that access.

    First determine which user and usergroupt runs Ubuntu One by using

    # ps -C ubuntuone-syncd -o uid,gid

    On my machine it gave me this result

      UID   GID
  1000  1000

    Get the corresponding name of the GID

    # id -G
# id -G -n

    Results will be like this:

    1000 4 20 24 46 116 118 124 
orangetux adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

    You can see that usergroup orangetux has group id 1000

    Now check the folder you want to sync

    # cd /path/to/folder

    Now get a view of the folder

    # ls -l

    Output is something like this:

    -rw-r--r--  1 orangetux orangetux   179 2012-03-19 20:04 examples.desktop

    The line tells me this

    -rw-r--r--

    Root has read and write permissions. Group has read permissions. Owner has read permissions.

    orangetux orangetux

    This line tells me that the owner of the file is 'orangetux' and the group is 'orangetux'

    Now you know if Ubuntu One has permissions to upload the file.

    When group/user is oke, but the group/user has no permission you can change it with this command

    # sudo chmod 444 .

    Which gives read access to root, group and user in this directory.

    When group/user of Ubuntu One aren't the same as the files, you can add the Ubuntu One user to the usergroup of the file with this command:

    # useradd -G {group} user
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