[2.0 Post-Upgrade Issues]

I don't work for BitTorrent, so I guess the "you" you're referring to is someone else.

yes.

 

but feel free to send me a link to a useless faq that doesn't address my problem with a version of a product that you have no experience with.

[[Solved] How Do I Downgrade To 1.4?]

i'm done with 2.0, thanks. where can i find the installer for 1.4 ?

 

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answering my own question, just in case anyone else wants out of this 2.0 debacle.

 

you need to uninstall (including removing settings), and download/install 1.4 from here: http://syncapp.bittorrent.com/1.4.110/

[Read/write Sharing Broken]

something's wrong with the read/write permissions in the share dialog.
 
here's me hovering over the bin folder:

 

note that it says 'Read & Write'
 

and here's the share dialog for that same folder:

 

why does it say "You don't have Read & Write access to this folder" ?

[2.0 Post-Upgrade Issues]

this isn't so much a request for help. it's more a statement that the upgrade experience is attrociously broken, the messaging is ambiguous at best. really, this isn't a great way to advertise a product you want us to pay for.

[2.0 Post-Upgrade Issues]

so, i just got prompted to upgrade to 2.0 (from 1.x), and now it's asking me to "link devices".

 

what am i supposed to do here? I don't want to link any devices - i just want it to do exactly what it was doing before i upgraded.

 

my choices are these:

1) link a device already running sync 2.0. i don't have any other devices running sync 2.0, so this is out.

2) this is my first sync 2.0 device. this is asking me to create an identity. but i already have an identity, whatever i was using to sync my pre-2.0 devices. why is it asking me this?

3) uninstall

 

what the actual f? why can't it just cleanly upgrade from 1.x?

[Awful Menu Location]

 

 

1) why do i have to scroll the window horizontally in order to be able to access the '...' menu?

2) why isn't that available as a right-click menu? am i the only non-mac user here?

3) why can't i make that window smaller?

[Some Ui Suggestions]

- make the list act like a regular list box:

  - keyboard navigation (up/down/tab, etc...)

  - single-click to select row (currently click does nothing but both the mouse cursor and hover highlight suggest otherwise)

  - right-click menu

  - column sorting

 

- why the huge minimum size?

 

[Slow Startup Time?]

the "setup" tab windows 8.1 task manager shows that BitTorrent Sync has a "High Startup Impact" with 34,000ms CPU and 129.1MB I/O.

 

is this normal? it seems a little high to me. all the other startup items have a CPU usage of a few hunded milliseconds.

[20 invites]

if there's a queue of pending invites, then why the need for a 'PM me' message?