Comment 8 for bug 571548

I bought the album Crazy Love by Michael Bublé around the first of May 2010. This was my first and possible last purchase from U1 music store.

The payment went ok and the files appeared in the cloud (visible from the U1 web interface) but never synced to any of my local computers. The folder "~/.ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One/" stayed empty no matter what I tried (e.g. reinstalling U1 and my account). Other files in the normal Ubuntu One folder synced fine. My computer is on several hours every day so it wasn't a matter of waiting long enough. Command u1sdtool -s showed idle all the time.

Finally today I got help from verterok and alecu on the #ubuntuone IRC channel. Running mkdir "Michael Bublé" in the folder "~/.ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One/" first destroyed the files in the cloud. Luckily there was an option to download the files again from the store, so clicking "download it again" in the U1 music store interface in Rhythmbox fixed it (except for one song, see below). Now the songs are in the cloud and they synced to one of my local computers.

I went to check the situation on another computer where I have the same U1 account: the folder "~/.ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One/" on that computer was still empty but running "touch test" in that folder somehow poked the U1 daemon and the sync started.

There is just one problem left: when I click to download the song "Baby [You've Got What It Takes] [with Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings]" (by Michael Bublé on album Crazy Love) in the Rhythmbox U1 music store interface, the page just reloads but no transfer is started.. I have to complain about that in another bug report.

But I guess the workaround to a local folder not syncing is to run "touch newfile" in it to wake up the sync calculation.