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Usage
usage, client sync usage
To start ownCloud Client, click on the desktop icon or start it from the application menu. In the system tray, an ownCloud icon appears.
start application
Overview
ownCloud is represented by an icon in the Desktop's system tray, also known as notification area.
The clients menu is accessed with a right click (Windows, Linux) or left click (Mac OS).
The status of the current sync can be observed in the Status dialog,
available trough the Open status... option. On Windows, a
left click on the tray icon also opens the status dialog.
Note
Until the intial setup has finished, the Connection Wizard will be shown instead when left-clicking on Windows.
The dialog provides an overview on the configured sync folders and allows to add and remove more sync folder connections as well as pausing a sync connection.
Changing Your Password and Account Settings
In the Settings Dialog, choose Account
-> Modify Account. It will open Setup Wizard, which next
to reconfiguring your connection to use a different user or server also
will allow to change the password for the local account, or to switch
from HTTP to HTTPS.
Setting up a Proxy
By default, the configured system proxy will be picked up. This may
not be working reliably on some Linux distributions, as only the
http_proxy variable gets picked up. You can configure a
proxy different from your system default in the Network
section of the Settings dialog.
The default settings assume an HTTP proxy, which is the typical use
case. If you require SOCKS 5 proxy, pick SOCKS5 proxy
instead of HTTP(S) proxy from the drop down menu. SOCKS 5
proxies are typically provided by some SSH implementations, for instance
OpenSSH's -D parameter. This is useful for scenarios where
SSH is employed to securely tunnel a client to the network running the
ownCloud server.
Limiting Bandwidth
Starting with Version 1.4, the Client provides bandwidth limiter.
This option can be found in the Network section of the
Settings Dialog.
You will find two settings for Download Bandwidth and
Upload Bandwidth.
Upload Bandwidth
The default is to automatically limit the upload. The rationale for this default is that typically, Computers and laptops are not directly connected to the server, but via a Cable Modems or DSL lines, which provide significantly more downstream than upstream bandwith. Sataurating the upstream bandwidth would interfere with other applications, especially Voice-Over-IP or Games.
The automatic limiter will throttle the speed to about 75% of the
available upstream bandwidth. If you are communicating with the server
via a fast, symetric connection, you can set the Limiter to
No Limit instead. If want a stronger limitation, choose
Limit to and specify a limit manually.
Download Bandwidth
Because the download bandwidth is usually no concern, it is not automatically limited. Should you find that the Client is taking up too much bandwidth, you can manually specify a limit (in KB).
Options
command line switches, command line, options, parameters
Config File
config file