Why does SeaDrive permanently download some random files ? I don’t get it, the only reason I can imagine is the “download entire library on background” which is unwanted. In my case the library size is greater then my local disk size, so it keeps downloading forever, when I’m out of disk space it will delete some “old” files which are again downloaded after some time, never ending story. This eat my network brandwidth and lower my SSD disk lifetime. Is this behavior intentional or ? Next thing is freeing space using the context menu option, instead of freeing that trigger download of all file withing that folder or the single file. That is the exact opposite then what suppose to happen. Again is this intentional ? Like comparing the content of local file with the remote to check for inconsistencies ? Seems like bug to me.
It sounds to me like you have some other process trying to access files from your seadrive. Maybe you have a file search or indexing program trying to read through your files, or an anti-virus program searching through your files. If anything tries to open a file, it will cause the SeaDrive to need to download the file.
You are right ! Thank you. (I feel so dumb) Turns out that the Nod32 Antivirus were monitoring the SeaDrive process and accessing every file which the process touched, both issues were caused by this. So just excluding the process is solution.
Glad I could help. Don’t feel dumb, I only recognize the pattern because the same happened to me. I tracked down a lot of network activity from an idle system to SeaDrive, and I was confused. Eventually I figured out it was the file search daemon updating its index of files causing everything to be downloaded again.