Synchronizing E Cloud on PC and Smartphone

[Musashi]

Hello dear Friends of Privacy,

Does the synchronization work for you, when you upload something from the PC, and you try to access it on the phone or vice versa? Because in my case, it doesnt directly do that. It synchronizes after some time. Maybe a week or a month.

I already tried different things but still doesnt do what I want. Any suggestions?

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[PierreT]

Hello,

I’ve also noticed some strange synchronisation behaviour between my phone (with /e/OS v1.19) and 2 PCs that use Murena cloud (one PC from a browser, the other under Linux with a Nextcloud account that lets you use the native file manager).
Synchronisation between the 2 PCs works fine. It’s with the phone that strange things happen. This is similar to some examples listed in several Topics. Files or photos created on the phone are uploaded to the cloud but:

• Files or photos deleted from the phone are not deleted from the cloud
• If I rename a file on the phone, it is duplicated on the cloud. A file with the old name, a file with the new name

I understand that synchronisation is being overhauled. Is this really the case? Or is it a configuration problem on my end?

Kind regards,

[PierreT]

Hi,

I’d like to come back to the synchronisation problems mentioned in this post.

Uploading works correctly. If I add a file or folder from my phone or a browser on a PC, the synchronisation works fine. The items added are found on all devices. Synchronisation can take time, sometimes up to 30 minutes, but it works.

However, if I delete a file or folder from a source, the deletion is not reflected in the other.

• If I delete from the phone, the deleted item remains accessible in the cloud (via a browser).
• If I delete from the cloud (via a browser), the deleted item remains accessible on the phone.

I’ve tried resynchronising eDrive as indicated in the following post but it doesn’t change anything:

Photos Stopped Synching - What is the best way to troubleshoot

I solved this a couple of times by: go to Settings/Apps (show system) stop eDrive, clear cache & data reboot phone, wait for at least 1/2h This way eDrive reset itself, rebuilds database from both phone storage and Murena Cloud.

I’ve read in several posts that eDrive doesn’t manage file deletion? Is this really the case? Do you have to install the Nextcloud application to do this and disable native /e/OS synchronisation?

The documentation mentioned by @Manoj here does not mention this behavior:

Murena cloud syncing in one or two directions?

By default, all files on the cloud would get synced on to any phone that is linked for the first time. Files and photos taken on the phone also get synced to the cloud folder. Will share your questions with the infra team who maintains the guide and have the guide detailed further.