The ownCloud Client remains in the background and is visible as an icon in the system tray (Windows, KDE), status bar (MAC OS X), or notification area (Ubuntu).
The Account Settings tab provides an executive summary about the synced folders in the account and gives the ability to modify them.
Where:
Adding a new sync is initiated by clicking Add Folder... in the Account settings.
The Directory and alias name must be unique.
Select the folder on the server to sync with. It is important to note that, a server folder can only sync to the client one time. So, in the above example, the sync is to the server root directory and thus it is not possible to select another folder under the root to sync.
The Activity window, which can be invoked either from the main menu (Recent Changes -> Details…) or the Activity tab on the left side of the settings window, provides an in-depth account of the recent sync activity. It will show files that have not been synced because they are on the ignored files list, or because they cannot be synced in a cross-platform manner due to containing special characters that cannot be stored on certain file systems.
The tab provides several useful options:
This tab consollidates Proxy Settings and Bandwith Limiting:
The Download Bandwidth can be either unlimited (default) or limited to a custom value. This is the bandwidth available for data flowing from the ownCloud Server to the client.
The Upload Bandwidth, the bandwidth available or data flowing from the ownCloud client to the server, has an additional option to limit automatically.
When this option is checked, the ownCloud client will surrender available bandwidth to other applications. Use this option if there are issues with real time communication in conjunction with the ownCloud Client.
ownCloud Client has the ability to exclude files from the sync process. The ignored files editor allows editing of custom patterns for files or directories that should be excluded from the sync process.
There is a system wide list of default ignore patterns. These global defaults cannot be directly modified within the editor. Hovering with the mouse will reveal the location of the global exclude definition file.
Each line contains an ignore pattern string. Next to normal characters, wildcards can be used to match an arbitrary number of characters, designated by an asterisk (*) or a single character, designated by a question mark (?). If a pattern ends with a slash character (/) the pattern is only applied to directory components of the path to check.
If the checkbox is checked for a pattern in the editor it means that files which are matched by this pattern are fleeting metadata which the client will remove.
Note
Modifying the global exclude definition file might render the client unusable or cause undesired behavior.
Note
Custom entries are currently not validated for syntactical correctness by the editor, but might fail to load correctly.
In addition to this list, ownCloud Client always excludes files with characters that cannot be synced to other file systems.
With version 1.5.0 it also ignores files that caused individual errors while syncing for a three times. These are listed in the activity view. There also is a button to retry the sync for another three times.
For more detailed information see Ignored Files.