This one is for artists who don’t want code, or for developers who aren’t artistically inclined.

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What is Selective Sync?

Selective Sync is a feature that allows you to choose which folders you want to sync locally. This will allow you to only have the files you need to work on, saving space on your computer.

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How to use Selective Sync

Go to the workspace setting for your repo.
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Open your repo

From your local folder, run dv view, or click the View Repo button in the UI.Open repo
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Go to workspace settings

Click on the gear icon next to your workspace’s name.Open settings
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Welcome to Selective Sync.

Selective Sync page

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Unsyncing a folder

Let’s take a look at folder 1. In the UI: Selective Sync ui full And locally: Selective Sync local full Let’s unsync folder 1.2. Unselect the folder in the UI and hit Save. Selective Sync removing folder 1.2 Locally, the folder disappears automatically. Selective Sync removed folder 1.2 local It’s also missing in the UI. Selective Sync removed folder 1.2 ui

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What about my uncommitted changes?

Have no fear! If you have any uncommitted changes, you won’t be able to change your selective sync settings. Let’s see what that looks like. Inside folder 1.1, let’s make changes to text document 1.1.1.txt and save. Selective Sync editing 1.1.1.txt Back in the workspace settings, let’s try to unsync folder 1.1. Selective Sync fail to unsync 1.1 We got an error message! We’ll have to commit or discard our changes before unsyncing the folder. Selective Sync fail to unsync 1.1 error

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Loose files

Right now, we can only selectively sync folders. This means that files are handled differently, if they’re not in a folder. Let’s take a look at folder 2. Selective Sync folder with loose file Notice that it has a file directly under it - text document 2.1.txt. In this situation, unsyncing folder 2.1 will also unsync text document 2.1.txt! That’s despite the file being a sibling of the folder and not a child of it. This is because folder 2 will be marked as partially synced, so only explicitly synced folders (in this case, folder 2.2) will be kept. This still supports the main use-case of this feature:
  1. Artists who don’t want to sync code locally can ignore the root Source folder, or equivalent.
  2. Developers who don’t want to sync heavy assets can ignore the root Content folder, or equivalent.

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Per workspace

The selective sync feature works on a per-workspace basis. This means that you can have different selective sync settings for different workspaces. This is useful if you have multiple projects in the same repo, or if you’re working on different parts of the same project.