Raccoon
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I've got exfat formatted 64gb sdcard and trying to sync to it a 30+ GB file. It just hangs there at downloading without actually downloading anything. And I've waited days!
- All versions of sync (android, PC) are latest
- android is latest 4.4 official samsung update and is saving to the com.bittorrent.sync folder thats' the only writeble on the sdcard.
- i'm managing to sync mp3s using the same setup just fine
- since it's exfat 30GB shouldn't be a problem.
- there is plenty of free space on the card
So what might be stopping it from even starting the download process? It looks like the file can't be created for some reason. Does the android software has problems with files that big?
I sync the same file to other PC just fine.
So it's clearly something related to Android and the size of the file.
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Actually yes! I can just base64 it.
Is there any advantage to hashing it before that that i'm missing?
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Well, which hash function will have 40+ chars output? Other than that I don't think it matters much?
Basically, I just hash a sentence, then base64 it and can use it as custom secret, right?
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isn't that idea too cool to be ignored?
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I want to have a secret that can be derrived by a sentence that i'll just remember.
I would then be able to sit at any computer, derive the secret (by using online hash generator) and download my files.
So few questions
1. can the secret by any string of chars, or there is some "format" requirments?
2. what hashing algorithm is best to use to hash the sentence (or something different than hashing algo?)
3. any potential draw backs of this method (except the obvious that if usnig online hash generator, the site will know the secret)
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ok which folder we have to use for BitTorrent (not sync) so it can save to the sd card?
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not sure what you are talking about
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sdcard/Android/com.bittorrent.sync
or something like that is the dir you need to use.
Yes, that's the dir that worked for BIttorrent SYnc, but here i was asking about Bittorrent app (I believe i startes this thread in the bittorrent sub-forum)
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Don't want to root it just for that.
Bittorrent should have a dir on the SD card where it can write. The question is what should be the name of that dir, since it doesn't create one for itself and com.bittorrent doesn't work
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yeah just reinstalled it
it doesn't created it's own folder in Android/data on the sdcard
so where to save the torrents so it actually allows it to write?
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I fixed the similar problem with btsync by pointing to it's dir on Sdcard/Android/btcyncblabla
but there is no such dir for bittorrent
so how do we save to the sdcard directly?
p.s.
this 4.4 update is really annoying
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works perfect, thanks!
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ah that's so bad
update of bt sync or android? Do we know when to expect it?
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I upgraded to Android 4.4.2 and tried to setup a new folder to be synced and got the error in the title.
I'm trying to save it on the memory card.
Infact the folder selector of btsync can't even create new folders, so it doesn't have permissions for the whole card.
It works for the internal memory though. Quite odd?
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well can the device have internet at all if there is no gateway?
my devices are set to discover the settings on auto
yes it works with predefined hosts, but they sometimes change, or one wants to add devices without extra configuration and would be nice to have a way to do that auto as well
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well i have 2 networks the local one which is on the same gateway as the other devices and the vpn one
the trick is to make sure it uses the local network
i test that by giving it large file to transfer and watch the network utilization of each network, sometimes te usage goes over just the local one, sometimes it utilizes both
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the problem with me is that one of the PC is always on VPN
and i'm trying to make it use not the VPN network but the local one, it seems like sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn.t (will have to test more when have time)
the gateway is always the same for all the devices
also seems like i have problems syncing to the android device as well, but that might be unreated
anyway, more tests are due when time is available
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hm i guess it also depends on the lan setup
but it's good to know it works for some
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yeah the relay server is always disabled with me, it's too slow anyway
so far seems we have to leave it to use the tracker to find each other, and i would prefer to eliminate that touch point to the outside as well
to do that, you have to use predefined hosts and they don't work with android for the reasons you mention
so pretty much i confirm everything you said
i guess it needs some more time to iron those things out
still the best tool out there though
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I don't have "Enable Debug Logging" option in the app on android?
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Great, how do I do that?
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hm that seems to be different problems, once the change is noted i have no problems with syncing big files. CHeck if the destination has enough free space. If it doesn't it wont start without outputting error until there is free space.
Now lets return to the original problem.
If on byte in a file in a encrypted container is changed how much does that change the container and does it re-transfer the whole container file or just the 4mb chunk that has the changed bytes in it?
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ok it seems that it goes locally, just for some reason windows reports traffic on both the local network and the vpn network (under networking in windows task manager)
is that expected behavior?
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Anyone Managed To Sync 30+ Gb File To Android? Seems Impossible To Me.
in Sync Troubleshooting
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Ah yes that might be it, since I personally formatted in exfat, so it's not the fat32 limit.
How we could check that for sure?