I’m a 9-user Seafile Pro customer, mostly on macOS. SeaDrive does what we need except for one thing: there’s no way to pin a file or folder so it stays local.
On Windows you can right-click and “Always keep on this device”. On macOS, the only options are “Download Now” (one-shot, evictable) and “Remove Download.” Whatever I cache right now can be just disappear later whenever the cleaner runs. This makes SeaDrive unsuitable for offline use.
The workarounds are: oversize the cache and hope, or run the regular Seafile sync client alongside SeaDrive. Both defeat the point of even using SeaDrive.
This has been requested multiple times on this forum since 2020 with no real response:
- Make available offline (Jan 2020)
- SeaDrive Mac: Keep Offline (Dec 2022)
- Pin folders on macOS (May 2024)
On the exact same version (3.0.21), Windows users get pinning while Mac users don’t. Every comparable client has it: iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box. The macOS File Provider API supports it natively.
Six years of silence on a feature parity gap isn’t acceptable. Can someone from the team actually engage with whether this is on the roadmap, and if not, why not?