#191 Small feature requests

[Michael Merbach]

Hi there :)

As a longtime user, there a quite a few little tweaks I found missing on my daily work with CryptSync. As I hope the development isn't dead, I would like to see at least a few of them implemented in the future:

1. selectable compression strenght... sometimes, size matters but at other times I need to get the job done as fast as I can. I would suggest to at least include the 7-Zip presets "save only", "ultra" and "normal" as an option for every sync job. It would be even greater to be able to configure all 7-zip compression settings by hand, but it's not really nessessary

2. backup. It's nice to have a sync function all the time which keeps source and destination directories clean and deletes files which don't exist on the opposite or redownload them according to your sync settings. However, sometimes a simple backup function would be a nice thing. If I "sync" my pictures folder I should be able to delete some of the files I have no use for right now from the source without them also being deleted on the destination folder or getting downloaded again. If the space of my onedrive gets low, I should be able to delete some encrypted files without them being deleted locally or reuploaded again every time.

3. a "include files" list for every job profile. We have an exclude list and we have a global exclude list. I would like to have a profile specific "white list" for included files which overrides the global exclude list. While I don't want to have thumbnails synced in 48 of my 50 jobs and therfor the global exclusion makes perfect sense, I may have use for them in 2 other profiles.

4. import and export settings. For now, I export the CrypSync registry keys to backup my settings. However, this isn't that ideal and has a small issue: the re-import of these settings for some reason only works if there are already the same number of jobs created than my registry backup contains. So if I need to reconfigure CryptSync, I have to create a lot of dummy profiles and only then I'm able to re-import my reg file. I really hope for a proper import and export function within the program - or even better to use the tool completely portable (store setting in an ini file, maybe?)

5. a way to trim the log file. On some of my jobs that thing gets big. Like 15 MB big. An option to only store the last x entries would be much appreciated

6. a progress indicator. I don't necessarily need a full status bar (even if it would be nice to have) but some indication that CryptSync is working right now would be useful. Maybe a animated tray icon? Maybe an animated icon which shows not only if the program is working right now, but also change if there is an error in one of the jobs?

The way I see it, these are quite minor but worthy changes, but of course also minor changes need some time and effort so I don't expect anything from you. However, I would be happy to see some of this stuff in the future.

Thanks for your work and for such a great and useful tool.

Michael