Thanks for your “Syncthing” explanation, A Thompson (particularly the point about the .stignore file!). If I can get this to work, it will be an ideal solution for my wife and I to be able to share POI’s with each other. Alas, it’s not working for me.
Since I don’t have enough storage capacity on Internal Memory, I have no choice but to store all of OSMAnd’s data on my devices’ external SD cards. Unfortunately, Syncthing only has readonly access to this location. As a result, changes can’t be synchronised. With the above in mind, can somebody perhaps suggest a viable workaround? In an ideal world, we’d be able to stipulate where the favourites file can be saved to and accessed from. In my case, that would be anywhere on my devices where I have readwrite capability. ------------------------------------------------------------------- > On 12 Jan 2020, at 20:19, A Thompson <thompson...@gmail.com> wrote: > > using Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ <https://syncthing.net/> (free, open > source) successfully. > > If you use a file manager to open a .gpx POI file with OsmAnd, and choose to > import as favourites then OsmAnd adds the contents intelligently to your > existing favourites, preserving categories and avoiding duplicates. It seems > that on startup it now imports favourites.gpx in the same way. Thus, by > syncing favourites.gpx between devices you can sync additions to your > favourites, but you still need to make any deletions manually on each device. > > Syncthing works between folders, but these can be in different locations. > I've been syncing favourites.gpx between an Android 4.4 OsmAnd installation > on a phone's SD card, and the built-in storage of an Android 9 tablet. To > sync only favourites.gpx, not the whole folder, then Syncthing's ignore > pattern for the folder should be: > > !favourites.gpx > * > > (This resides in a text file called .stignore that you can create in an > editor or during setup of the synced folders in Syncthing.) See "Ignoring > files" in the Syncthing documentation. > > Other than choosing to start Syncthing automatically on device boot, I've > been using all default settings. This means only syncing while on WiFi. If > you add to favourites on multiple devices while they're unconnected, there > will be a conflict that Syncthing handles. But if you do it while they're > connected there's no problem: on the next full restart of OsmAnd each device > will see all of the newly added favourites. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/269B78DE-75D3-410B-A8FB-BD11FE87475C%40gmail.com.
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