Using Groove syncing a folder with LARGE amount of LARGE files

[Peter]

Hello,

I am playing around with Groove and have a folder the has about 3GB if
files. I do not need to sync all files in this folder but would only want to
sync files from the past month. How can I do this?

Thank you,
Peter>>

 

[GWON]

There is not an override for the file limits nor is there a file
specification mask (cool idea though). You will have to use a sub folder to
handle you needs. While it could get ugly later, you could always create a
new folder and move the contents into the folder a little at a time. It will
eventually take the whole 3+ GB. The risk is severe performance problems at
start up and inability to invite any new users into the space once it goes
over the file limits.

 

[Peter]

Thanks for replying...
oh well, this does make it kind of hard to use this. these would be nice
features, probably the first things I would have thought of if I was
developing this.

Thanks again,
Peter.

 

[Eric Frost - MVP]

Thanks for replying...

oh well, this does make it kind of hard to use this.

There were some new file sync/sharing restrictions with Groove 2007, I used to use Groove 3.1 for sync'ing LARGE folders although it
was not ideal.

The new restrictions in Groove 2007 forced me to research some other tools and I landed on FolderShare, another company Microsoft
bought. Thankfully they haven't ruined this one yet, probably because they haven't tried to do any development on it ;-)

https://www.foldershare.com/

While it still has limits, I am syncing two folders without any problems
13.4 GB and almost 10,000 files (doh! I think the limit is 10k files so I have to watch this one)
3.7 GB and 4,250 files

I went back to using Groove for another projust where I know we want to keep everything small and because it involves two laptops
that are never together and have slow connections in between, I thought Groove might handle it better. The jury is still out IMHO.

Eric

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