Questions tagged [sync]
Questions about syncing with various protocols and services, as well as between devices: Examples include Ubuntu One, Contacts/Calendar/Mail syncing, and Dropbox for software, and between devices, syncing between Android and iOS are prime examples.
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How do I make rsync delete files that have been deleted from the source folder?
I recently set up a machine with Ubuntu Server to host game servers. I installed a backup plugin for each game server that creates frequent backups of game world files in a particular folder on the ...
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How to Sync OneDrive Business /Office 365 on Linux?
Microsoft OneDrive Business/Office 365 Pro offers 1 TB of cloud storage but unfortunately there has never been a method to sync it on Linux.
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Sync Chromium with a Google account does not work any more … solutions?
Since around today, March 10, 2021 and recent update to 89.0.4389.82 Chromium stopped syncing to Google accounts. As is turns out, this is due to some changes made by Google.
What can we as users do?
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Ubuntu 14.04 and Android, can't see phone on my computer
I have installed gMTP and tried to follow this tutorial to solve this problem:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/upgrade-to-gvfs-with-mtp-support-in.html
But neither worked.
I tried to connect both my ...
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How to sync gnome-calendar with an online calendar?
I thought it was awesome that Ubuntu 16.04 shipped with gnome-calendar, but I noticed that holidays were not included. I also noticed that there is an option to sync the calendar with an online one, ...
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Automatically do a two-way sync of two directories
I would like to do a two-way automatic sync between folders Directory A andDirectory B. This means that whenever a file in Directory A or one of its sub-directories is changed, that change is ...
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How to automatically sync the contents of a local folder with the contents of a ftp folder?
After searching everywhere I have not managed to find a specific answer for my question.
On Windows there is an application called FTPbox that will automatically sync a local folder with an ftp one ...
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What is happening? I/O error, dev sda, sector 545868115
Since a few days ago, my computer freezes whenever I sync my HDD with an external USB3 drive. When the keyboard gets temporarily a bit responsive I am able to switch to another terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2) ...
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grive sync error, possibly google API shift
I am having trouble syncing with my google drive account from grive running on Ubuntu 14.04. I have never had problems previously. I tried purging drive from my system and deleting all local folders, ...
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How can I keep a folder synchronized to an external USB hard drive?
I have a growing music collection which I manually keep in sync with an external USB drive. Sometimes I edit their ID3 tags, add or delete a file in either the hard drive or the USB drive, and I would ...
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Google Chrome does not sync passwords
I have a problem with syncing passwords with Google Chrome.
Whenever I save a password in Chrome, it just saves it locally. If I have previously saved the password on Google password manager in the ...
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How to keep your photos in sync with Flickr?
I have a ~/photos directory where I keep all my photos. I'd like it to be automatically sync'd to flickr (with their recent generous expansion...) -- all pictures in this directory automatically ...
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How can I use box.com to sync my home directory across machines?
Box.com does not support Linux, although there is a feature request with enthusiastic support.
The comments to the feature request provide a number of ways to use Box with Linux, by mounting a WebDav ...
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How to sync onedrive for business? [duplicate]
At my school we are starting to implement Office 365 for our students. We are working on basis of a bring-your-own-device strategy and will meet all kinds of devices and OS's. Office 365 comes with a ...
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Best way to sync music to Galaxy Nexus (MTP)?
The Galaxy Nexus uses MTP which makes general use a bit of a pain. Luckily, Ubuntu comes with some drivers preinstalled so I can access my phones memory easily through nautilus, however Rhythmbox and ...
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Syncing apt-get installations between multiple computers
Is there a way to synchronize my installations (and removals) between multiple PCs?
Preferably with dropbox - since I'm already using that to keep my files in sync.
I thought of an alias for the apt-...
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Keeping multiple workstations in sync
I work with multiple computers for various reasons. I want to keep those computers in sync configuration wise. I already have a VCS based setup that allows me to manually update configurations on ...
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How do I integrate Dropbox in Sync Menu Indicator?
Is there anyway to integrate Dropbox in the Sync (cloud) Menu Indicator?
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Are there any ways to access iCloud-based files with Ubuntu?
I have various Apple products which sync with iCloud.
Are there any ways to access iCloud documents with Ubuntu (for clarity, I'm not asking about email, calendaring, etc.) apart from the web-based ...
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How to sync files/data between two PCs on a home network?
I have a desktop and a laptop with almost the same files within their home directory. Sometimes I make changes in ~/Music, ~/Documents, etc. But these changes of course don't affect the other machine....
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Sync notes between Android phone and Ubuntu?
I want a note taking app on my Ubuntu running laptop and an app on my Android phone which can sync with each other, through online means or manually syncing. So far the only thing I've seen is the ...
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Sync specific folder between two Ubuntu machines when connected to the same LAN
I have two Ubuntu machines, a laptop and a desktop.
What I wish to do is, to create a folder in both machines at paths 'path1' and 'path2'.
I want to set up sync between the two folders whenever they ...
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Can I install Unison for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
I have two machines running Ubuntu. One runs Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and the other one runs Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I want to use unison to sync files between them. I've installed unison on both of them the ...
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How to sync my Dropbox files with a preferred local folder?
I installed Dropbox using following commands
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" | tar xzf -
Then I ran the demon with this command:
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
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How do I sync contacts on Ubuntu Touch?
How do I sync (upload to/download from) my contacts, with my Ubuntu Touch OS?
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Managing Kindle Fire with on 12.04 via Micro-USB
To begin, I have read both Is there a way to get a Kindle Fire to work with 12.04? and How can I transfer files to a Kindle Fire with a Micro-USB cable?
My problem is that I am unable to mount my ...
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rsync: Sync folders, but keep extra files in target
I'm getting started with rsync and tried to use it to keep two folders on local system synced. I have a source folder, whose content changes over time (some files get added, some changes and some ...
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Syncing iPhone with iTunes on a windows virtual machine
Is it at all possible for a virtual machine running Windows 7/8.1/10 on VMWare or VirtualBox on a Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 host, to detect an iPhone 4S running iOS 9.2.1 as an iPhone and for iTunes on the ...
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Is syncing private keys a good idea?
Ubuntu One's Security FAQ indicates that Canonical encrypts connections and restricts access to user data. This all well and fine, and I do trust SSL for online banking and other things more valuable ...
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Automatically sync a folder to a USB when USB is plugged in?
Is there a way to sync a folder to an USB drive when the drive is plugged in? I'd like it to sync, or copy over changes, both ways. I've seen the Back In Time and Unison-GTK applications, but I'd like ...
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How can I add a CalDAV calendar in Bionic / Gnome 3
My work calendar is available at https://username:[email protected]/caldav.php/username/calendar (example, but results are same with valid creds).
The new Calendar in Bionic looks great, and syncs ...
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How to avoid files being replaced with older versions in Ubuntu One?
UbuntuOne for windows has replaced an OpenOffice document with an older version of the file. I am syncing between 2 windows machines and one ubuntu machine.
Fortunately I was able to recover my work ...
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Ubuntu One on Lubuntu?
Is it possible to sync a Ubuntu computer with a Lubuntu computer with Ubuntu One? Can you install Ubuntu One on Lubuntu with no problems?
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How do I completely remove mega sync client
I'm using mega service (http://mega.co.nz).
I installed the sync client on my Ubuntu 14.10 and it works well.
But now I'm trying to configure a new account.
I did a purge to the mega sync pakckage :
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Dropbox instead of the documents folder?
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I was wondering if it's possible to make Dropbox sync my ~/Documents folder? I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix (Not that NBR should matter that much). I've read how to do this on Windows, and I ...
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I downloaded an EPUB file, how can I get it from Ubuntu to my IPad?
I am travelling tomorrow and I have some PDF's and e-books I want to read on my IPad.
I have downloaded an EPUB file to my Ubuntu computer. I want to know how to sync files in Ubuntu with an IPad or ...
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Make Folder a symbolic link to two folders?
I would like to have Ubuntu's default music folder /home/$USER/Music to act pretty much as a library would in Windows. Essentially it would be a virtual folder containing the contents of other folders....
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How to sync contacts and the calendar on Ubuntu Touch with OwnCloud
How do I synchronize contacts and calendars from OwnCloud with the Ubuntu phone?
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How to sync Google Docs with a folder in my filesystem?
I'd like to be able to edit my files offline and it would automatically send the changes to Google Docs and vice versa. Is that even possible? If so, how to do it?
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how to sync ftp folder with local folder?
I have a local folder, and I would like to sync it a folder on a web server via FTP . what is the best way to accomplish this? I would prefer to be able to do this via terminal, so that I can just ...
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Evolution Calendar sometimes has error 403 with my Google Calendar?
So this problem never appeared before this started happening like 1 week ago.
Sometimes I get an Error 403 when syncing to the Google Calendar and Google tasks, but this only happens with the Ubuntu ...
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What functionality of an iPad can I use with Ubuntu?
What functionality of an iPad can I use with Ubuntu? I'm thinking about buying an iPad, but I only have Ubuntu PCs these days (no Windows, no Mac), and I'm nervous that it may be too reliant on the ...
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How can I sync my home folder over network and internet?
I use my laptop with Ubuntu-desktop to do all my work, but I also have a low-end desktop over at my office just sitting there. I've decided I'm going to install Ubuntu-server on it and use it to ...
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Thunderbird 78.7 - How to sync Google contacts and calendar
I have seen countless messages about this question (though none specifically for Ubuntu) and lots of references to TBsync and Caldav (which I don't know what is), and I have tried adding TBsync and ...
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Is it possible to enable Google Bookmarks Sync in Chromium?
I'm considering changing from Google Chrome to Chromium in order to get as open sourced as possible. However, I've always liked Google Chrome's ability to synchronize my bookmarks to my Google Account ...
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Will Ubuntu One support OS Settings sync?
Being new to Linux and to Ubuntu, I've taken quite some time to tune it to my needs on my netbook. As I'm now convinced by the OS, I plan to install it on my desktop in the next few days. I was hoping ...
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Can I sync bookmarks between Firefox and Chromium?
So, Firefox has turned so resource intensive that my netbook can't run it without making me want to pull my hair out. Thus, I have been trying Chromium with quite some success (I have managed to find ...
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20.04 LTS OneDrive Issues Linking account
I was able to get my OneDrive working about two weeks ago on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS OS. I was messing around and messed my OS up. So I decided to wipe and start fresh. When I was trying to set my laptop up ...
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How to upload a file to google drive?
I would like to just upload files to google drive from the command line. I don't care about synchronisation. I just want to upload things to google drive and if they exist they get replaced if not ...
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