Remove ignored files / files not synced entries from the Activity tab

[jochenwezel]

Reviewing my sync errors protocol, I would like to cleanup these warnings easily.

In most cases, the file just needed to be removed to solve the warning. But there hasn't been a "copy file path to clipboard" feature available, yet.

To make it even more simple, I'd like to add a button at this location called "Delete selected file"

So, you might want to add one or all of these buttons for the users:

• new button "Copy path to clipboard"
• new button "Delete selected file/directory"

[SamuAlfageme]

@ckamm might be interesting together with the "Not Synced" tab rework in 2.4. I can imagine setups with lots of ignored files via pattern that shadow other syncing issues in the list recurrently as they're always present.

[jochenwezel]

Optionally, another button could open an explorer window and select that file.

At windows platform, you could do this by simply open a new explorer.exe window with following command line:

explorer.exe /select,"C:\Folder\subfolder\file.txt"

Other platforms (Linux & Co. - which are supported by the sync client) might have similar functionality, otherwise this button could be visible on windows platforms only.

[jochenwezel]

1. A more general note in this context on MS Windows behaviour: MS Office usually creates temporary files with hidden flag and starting with tilde (~) char. Even if windows explorer options are configured to show hidden files, all hidden files starting with ~ char still don't appear and keep hidden. => So, it's not enough to just point the user to the directory location.

2. Current client version is already able to open the folder in windows explorer where a file is located. For this, you have to double-right(!)-click at an item. This is an undocumented feature in UI. => Maybe it makes sense to introduce a context menu and provide the available options for a file entry there (additionally to the additional buttons in very first screenshot of this issue thread)?

[ckamm]

@jochenwezel Adding a context menu for these kinds of actions seems good to me.