choosing to ubuntuone- sync a folder in nautilus does nothing

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

I'm right-clicking on a folder in nautilus, after supposedly ubuntone is all set up and has been syncing for a while.
I choose to sync the folder, but it makes no difference. No checkmark, no addition to the list of folders available in ubuntu one, etc

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubuntuone-client-gnome 1.6.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-12.51-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 18 12:51:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

Maybe like everything else about Ubuntu One, it was doing something, but VEEERRYY slowly.
I tried again on a different folder, and while clicking/choosing to sync gave no visible effect (ie, it ought to immediately change the folder icon to the in-progress version), it did so after several minutes.

There are numerous other performance problems, maybe related.

Syncing a new folder takes over one hundred times as long as it does for Dropbox (!!!).

During this time, I get repeated (several) identical popup messages telling me the syncing is happening.

Changing a file has no short term effect on synced computers (while Dropbox has the sync propagated within 10 seconds)

Available folders are not updated in the U1 control panel when they're changed online (ie not within minutes)

I got numerous files inappropriately marked with .u1conflict during my first update in a while. Worse, for tens of minutes, those files were the only version left. They were the correct one, but eventually the very out of date versions reappeared as well, without the .u1conflict. So I had a lot of clean up to do

and other problems. I don't know how many of these are separate bugs.