Introduction
Managing files and folders
- Managing files with libraries
- Restoring deleted files
- Finding old file versions
- Library history and snapshots
- Setting history retention period
- Deleting a library
- Viewing files within Web App
- Full text file search
Sharing and collaboration
Wiki and knowledge management
Desktop client and syncing
- Install and sync files
- Syncing existing folders
- Selectively sync sub-folders
- Read-only syncing
- Unsync and resync libraries
- Setting sync interval
- Proxy settings
- File conflicts
- Excluding files
Drive client
Security and encryption
Read-only syncing
For ready-only libraries or folders, Seafile will show a forbidden icon (
) to indicate they are read-only. However, users can still modify the synced local copies. When a local copy is modified, Seafile will ignore the modified one. When the copy at the server is also modified, the client will popup a notification, saying that the local modified copy conflicts with the copy at the server side. To prevent data loss, the local copy is renamed to a conflict file.
If you want the be-shared users not be able to modify local copies, you can consider using the Seafile Drive client.