tman5005

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  1. The ability to sync folders that contain other sync folders. The goal is to be able to do a backup of my entire home folder to another machine, but my home folder contains other synced folders. For instance, I have two machines, a laptop and a desktop. On the desktop I have two hard drives, one dedicated to regular computer operations and the other as a drive to be a receiver for backup copies. On the laptop, I have this regular sync folder that I use to keep some regular work documents in sync between all machines: C:\Users\abcuser\BTSync But, I also want to set this folder C:\Users\abcuser as a folder that is synced to the desktop as a backup copy. The desktop gets the read-only key for C:\Users\abcuser and so it is a one-way sync. But, when I try to do this, I get an error saying that C:\Users\abcuser contains other folders that are already being synced. I have found a way to work around this by creating a windows softlink, called C:\Users\abcuser_ln that points back to C:\Users\abcuser. But, because the path is different, this way Bittorrent Sync doesn't match it against the other folders and now I can put a read-only key to C:\Users\abcuser_ln on the desktop and now I can get my laptop backing up to my desktop. However, it would be nice if this was a native feature of the Windows client. It already is a feature in the Android app.