knolly42/onedrive-d

Microsoft OneDrive daemon on Ubuntu

onedrive-d

A Microsoft OneDrive client on Linux desktop environment, written in Py3k.

NOTE: VERSION 0.85 IS DEPRECATED

NOTE: VERSION 1.0 IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

The branch 1.0-dev is totally rewritten in Py3k, thereby finishing the features that are unable or itchy to implement in previous, experimental versions.

TODO Lists

• A simple and light-weight Live Connect API written in Py3k
• Support both GUI and command-line interfaces
  • Command-line preference dialog
  • Gtk preference Dialog
  • Command-line observer (no-observer mode)
  • Gtk observer
• Easily customizable ignore list
• Installation scripts

Installation

Run command ./setup.sh inst (planned)

Uninstallation

Run command ./setup.sh remove (planned)

Approaches

The program consists of two parts, main and prefs. Both parts can run with and without GUI The program can run with and without GUI.

The GUI library planned to use is PyGI.

Architecture

There are two entry points in the program: onedrive-d and onedrive-pref:

• onedrive-d deals with synchronization.
• onedrive-pref updates the preferences.

Both commands support two arguments: --no-gui (use command-line interface) and --help (list all supported arguments).

Besides, onedrive-pref --log-out will log out the current user.

onedrive-d

For onedrive-d, there are three major threads:

• The MainThread initializes the process and communicates with OS.
• The daemon thread syncs the local repository with the OneDrive server and issues events to its observers;
• The observer thread observes and handles events from the daemon.
  • The observer may be hooked with either default or gtk event handlers, depending on the existence of --no-gui.

onedrive-pref

ChangeLog

1.0.0-dev

• Rewrite the program in Python 3.
• Built-in UTF-8 support.
• Detachable UI components.
• Better ignore list feature.
• And much more...

FAQ

Why are my files / dirs renamed to add *_conflict?

For case conflicts, since NTFS is case-INsensitive, the local repository cannot have two files whose names only differ in cases, say, hello.c and Hello.c. In this case one of them will be renamed hello (case_conflict_1).c and then get synced.

For type conflicts, if the remote entry and local entry have the same name but different types, say, the local path ~/OneDrive/doc is a file while in OneDrive server /doc is a folder, the local one will get renamed.

What is the reference environment?

The program is tested on latest Xubuntu 64-bit and should work on other Debian/Ubuntu variants.

Contact

Xiangyu Bu