Our mission here at Insync is to build the most powerful Google Drive client. We aim to provide a Google Drive experience so unparalleled that we will become the obvious choice even over the official client. In line with our quest for world domination, we released one of our most requested features two months ago: nested selective sync. This allows clients to choose which files and folders to sync even within subfolders. This conserves crucial hard disk space (especially SSDs) and allows for better file management, showing only the files the user needs when she needs them.
However, a part of our user base was unable to take advantage of this new feature. While our desktop users were enjoying this fine-grained control, our headless users were stuck with the old selective sync. This was due in part to the code; the old interface was hard to extend, which required a complete rewrite. We believe this is time well spent though, and today we’re proud to announce the availability of nested selective sync for headless clients.
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The improvements to the interface are readily seen. Color support is built in, if the terminal provides it. The layout has also been cleaned with sections separated into frames. Entries are highlighted to indicate the item being worked on. Lastly, a menu (available through Ctrl+x) provides additional functionality that is not available from the main screen.
With the release of nested selective sync for our headless client, we reiterate our goal to provide the best Google Drive experience for our users. Get the latest version from these links:
Let us know in our support forums of your experiences and feedback.