GreatMarko

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  1. You didn't provide any details as to the total number/size of files & folders you've added to sync... but are you running Sync as a windows service, and therefore you're seeing the "stop running script?" prompt in your browser, or are you running sync as a regular application (i.e. and access the UI via the Sync taskbar icon)

    If the former, what browser are you running? Have you tried accessing the WebUI via a different browser?

    If the latter, what version of Internet Explorer is installed on your system? ...and is it up-to-date?

     

  2. You don't say what OS you're running, but have you tried increasing the folder_rescan_interval setting (i.e. so that Sync re-scans folders less frequently)

    You could also try adjusting other settings such as setting "disk_low_priority" to "true" in order to concede resources to other applications, etc

    Also, are you using encrypted folders? If so, these will consume more CPU, so you could consider removing and re-adding these are regular folders instead.

  3. Check the system clocks on your devices and the modification time on the files themselves. Sync has determine that these files have invalid modification times (i.e. they appear to have been modified in the future - which isn't possible).

    Correcting your device's system clocks (if that's the case) should resolve the issue, otherwise, you'll need to "touch" (modify) the files in question on a device with a correct system clock so that the files then have a "valid" modification time, and can sync.

  4. 11 hours ago, makapav said:

    I strongly suggest, that you leave Archiving and perform a manual cleanup of the folder for a few weeks of continuous syncing so that you have enough test cases for any quirks that may set in.

    You don't need to "perform a manual cleanup" of the archive folder - there's a setting in Sync (sync_trash_ttl) that automates this. By default, files will persist in the archive for 30 days, but you can increase/decrease this to suit your particular needs

  5. On 25/12/2016 at 8:25 PM, Haider of Sweden said:

    .. anything I share to my friends (and that is meant for them) will also end up on the device that syncs anything you feed it with.

    Not if you set all your devices to "Disconnected" mode - that way, when you add a new folder on one device, it won't automatically sync with all your other devices.

    You can then copy the sharing link to share the folder with your "friends"

  6. On 14/12/2016 at 9:30 AM, Helen said:

    moved to feature requests. 

    ..and merged into existing feature request thread on this topic(!)

    @Illuvatar Feature Requests should be posted here in the Feature Request forum, and before posting a new suggestion, please take a few seconds to search to see if your suggestion has already been made and if so go ahead and add to that thread, rather than creating a duplicate thread.

  7. 9 hours ago, ironsoup said:

    Anyways, happy to share any other diagnostics or logs if needed, though I can't remember how to exactly so if someone could point me in the right direction...

    Collecting Debug Logs

    However, it would first be worth opening your Windows Task Manager and seeing what your CPU utilization is - mouse "lags" usually happen when the CPU is running maxed out. The Task Manager will allow you to identify which process is hogging the CPU... be worth checking that it is actually Sync that's the culprit.

  8. Sync is designed so as to bring your devices into sync as quickly as possible. It is essentially a "mesh" type network - i.e. all peers can send/receive data from all other peers.

    Sync will determine the connection speed with other connected peers and use this to determine how much data to send/receive from each peer. For example, if you have 5 peers in your mesh all in sync, all with exactly the same upload/download bandwidth, and you add a 6th peer, the 6th peer will likely receive 20% of its data from each of the 5 peers - this won't be "duplicate" data, this would be different "pieces" of data, the sum of which would make up the complete file/folder.

    Of course, in reality, not all 5 peers may have identical upload/download bandwidth capacity, or settings, and so some peers may be "faster" than others in your "mesh", and in these instances, Sync may prioritize more data from faster peers than from slower peers.

    For more on the general background principles behind "Mesh networking", please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking

  9. If you add both to Sync as "read/write" folders, then sync shouldn't delete anything that is on one device but not the other.

    However, from what I gleam from your question, you wish to sync an ENTIRE drive between PC's? If this is the case, are these drives Windows system drives (i.e. your C: drive), or partitioned/separate drives with no system files on?

    If it's the former then please be aware that:

    1) Sync can't sync files whilst they are open/locked/in use by Windows or another application

    2) Some system files & the Windows registry, etc are unique to a particular installation of Windows - attempting to "copy"/sync these to another Windows instance may break Windows!

    If however, the entire drive you wish to sync only includes non-system files that are not part of your OS, you should be able to sync the entire drive without issue.