MerceanCoconut
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I have Bittorrent Sync 1.4.93 on Windows 7. This is the first time I've tried adding a sync folder by email. I get has far as my browser trying to open a btsync:// link and not knowing what to do with it. I have checked the default programs and there is no btsync:// protocol available. I'm guessing that somewhere during the upgrade process this was missed.
Anyone else with this problem? I assume I need to add the protocol and link it to the btsync client. I'm not sure how to do that.
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I didn't even know there was a wishlist!
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Unfortunately I know no way to achieve that. BitTorrent Sync allows only to bind the internal web server for the UI to a specific network interface, but not the engine itself. I would consider this a very useful change request.
Agreed. I have been waiting for this feature. I find it very strange that the UI can be bound to a specific NIC, but not the engine. From the sync.log file it seems to me that the engine binds to a single NIC, but I don't know how it decides.
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Thanks everyone for your feedback, some of which are quite humorous. You've provided a number of feasible options depending on the situation.
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In person, with a thumb drive is what I have been doing. With the group of people I want to share the secret with, I'm on the only one that would use PGP and the only one without a mobile phone, so solutions involving either of those would be difficult.
I came across a website this morning for sharing things once: https://1ty.me/
Frankly, it seems to be the perfect solution. Any thoughts?
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What's the recommended method of giving someone your sync secret?
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Okay, thanks for your reply. Debug logging won't help with something that's already happened, but I am able to copy the history line by line. Not ideal, but it works.
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Using the Windows client, how can I save the information on the history tab?
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Thanks for all your work, tuxpoldo.
Would it be difficult to add uid/gid/umask settings to be managed by debconf? The last time I checked these needed to be configured manually.
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wizlon,
Something that I've noticed with running two separate instances is that the webui doesn't work properly for both if accessing from the same browser. I would recommend running a different browser for each webui that you want to access. This doesn't address your syncing issue, but once you get things running you will likely run into this problem.
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These options give the user a lot of power, but must be used wisely...
The umask was not what I wanted...after changing to 0007 things are working as I'd expected. I had a momentary lapse of thinking and forgot that the umask erases bits. The webUI works now. I suspect that putting a '7' in the user umask caused problems.
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I'm getting strange behaviour using the UMASK setting. Any time I enable it, the web UI stops working.
The first lines of my config file are:
//!/usr/lib/btsync/btsync-daemon --config
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// DAEMON_UID=chris
// DAEMON_GID=executives
// DAEMON_UMASK=0770
//I am managing the file myself, not using dpkg. I have the same behaviour for 1.1.33 and now 1.1.40.
As an aside, the dpkg options allow for setting umask, but not UID or GID.
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Is there a way for me to check the version installed from terminal? I am going based on what the web GUI says. is the proper way to do an upgrade sudo apt-get upgrade ?
You can also check which version you have installed and what is the latest available version by typing
apt-cache policy btsyncPerhaps you've installed both btsync and btsync-user? You can check by running
dpkg -l | grep btsync -
Great to hear that umask/permissions is being looked into. Thanks for all of your contributions, tuxpoldo!
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Are there any issues with having two network adapters on a client? I have noticed on other clients the IP address switching back and forth while it's trying to negotiate. Is it possible to to set the listen adapter? I know I can set the IP for the webUI.
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From what I've read, if I add a filename to .SyncIgnore that has already been synced and restart Sync, that file should be removed from other clients.
However, when I do this, the file is not removed. New files are kept from syncing, but already existing files are not cleaned out.
For example, client 1 has a lot of '.directory' files created by the file manager. If i add '.directory' to .SyncIgnore I expect that those files should be deleted from client 2. This does not happen. If I start deleting .directory files from client 2, they are now deleted from client 1.
I'm using 1.1.15 on linux.
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I see the same behaviour if the sync folder is explicitly set in the config file. This is on 1.1.15.
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Syncing between two machines has stalled. I see the following in the log:
[20130517 22:03:15.873] 192.168.21.2:45001: did not pick any blocks. blocking peer temporarily
What does it mean?
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That was my thinking as well. Thanks.
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Is it a good idea to add typical lock files to the ignore list? Are there any downsides?
As far as I can tell if someone else is editing a file and the lock file gets synced to my machine. It looks like I created the lock file, so in the case of Word it wouldn't stop me from opening and editing that file anyway.
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Sync appears to be working now...I don't have an explanation. It seems to me that the crashes stopped after upgrading to 1.0.134.2-1~wheezy. From the changelog it looks like it was compiled against different libraries than previous versions.
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I feel pretty stupid. For some reason I thought only the webui port could be changed in the conf file, but there it was. Thanks for your reply.
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Is it possible to set a static listening port? On linux, every time sync is restarted it chooses a new listening port.
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The machine I'm running it on has 1.5 GB of RAM, so I think it should be enough. On another machine running wheezy, it has 1 GB of RAM and runs with no problems.
On the machine that crashes frequently, I have tried all btsync versions since 1.0.132 on squeeze and after upgrading to wheezy. It has consistently crashed in all scenarios.
[Solved] Btsync:// Protocol Not Available
in Sync Troubleshooting
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Sync was installed in Program Files (x86), so I decided to reinstall and grab the 64 bit version while I was at it. That did indeed register the protocol. I was pleased to see that uninstalling didn't remove existing sync directories.
Thanks!