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You can change device name by accessing its WebUI page. or you can write your own config file and run rslsync with --config. Start from ./rslsync --dump-sample-config

I posted 2 similar posts 2 years ago, 1 question: and 1 feature request: No replies from Resilio Sync. I have rated Resilio Sync's support team 0-star ever since.

Resilio Sync for Linux is definitely portable, you don't need root/sudo to run rsl, normal user can use crontab -e (as normal user) to start it with custom config. Not sure if it works in Windows 10's WSL, you might want to give it a try.

The computer's spec is more than enough if you run headless Linux (i.e., don't install/run X server/Desktop environment). I would recommend using popular distros such as Debian (choose tiny/small CD) or Ubuntu (server), because the bigger user base, the more chance you'll get support in case you have any issues.

Just run 2 instances using different users user1: rslsync --config user1_config_file user2: rslsync --config user2_config_file make sure the 2 config files using different port/storage_path/pid, etc. you can start with rslsync --dump-sample-config > user_config_file then modify user_config_file

Not being able to totally turn OFF logs also bugs me. There's also a HUGE sync.log besides ShellExtIO.log. The user normally does not read these log files. I managed to stop these log files from recreating: On Windows 10 system, exit Resilio Sync, go to "AppData/Roaming/BitTorrent Sync" folder, delete ShellExtIO.log and sync.log, create 2 folders with the exact same names (ShellExtIO.log and sync.log), right click on them and go to Properties/Security, enable all "Deny" permissions for all user/group. On Linux system, go to the main .sync folder: rm sync.log; ln -sf /dev/null sync.log

I have 2 sync clients on RPI2b and RPI3b+, they are both running armhf binaries on Raspbian 9 (stretch).

If you have Pro license, change the server's folder type to "Selective Sync", then you can use "remove from this device" on the server. If you use Sync Free edition, on your PC, create a new folder outside of Sync folder, move whatever files you want to delete on your server to the new folder, these files will be deleted on the server side and saved in the new folder on the PC side.

I had a similar issue with Sync 2.6.0 on Android 7.0, see this post: @darpas: it seems working fine for me with the disconnect-then-reconnect solution.

No, they were in SD://myrsl/, not in Android/data folder.

Changed the topic to [resolved] with a workaround: disconnect/reconnect with "Simple mode" disabled. The cause of this problem is still a mystery to me. I hope I won't see it in the future with new versions of Sync.

Hello, I did what you suggest. If "Simple mode" is enabled, reconnecting the share created a new share folder with "(1)" appended (because the old share folder already existed and I couldn't rename the share name), and Sync had to re-download files under the new folder... which is not very good. I had to disable "Simple mode" before reconnect to get a chance to use old share name/folder, this also resulted in a long time "indexing"... well, at least it didn't re-download 30GB files.

Thanks for the reply. However, I am wondering why the same paths worked before with Sync 2.5.3(?) (the version before 2.6.0) but don't with 2.6.0... And can you be more specific about "remove the share from Sync and add it back"? These folders are shared with my Home Pro Sync desktops, the phone is a linked device and it got these folders automatically (not from shared links), I don't know how to remove these folders and am afraid of doing something wrong to disturb the desktops. Thanks.

Hello, My Android 7.0 phone got update today from Google Play Store and now it's running Sync 2.6.0 (7871) I have 2 connected folders and now they both show "Can't open the destination folder". The destination folders are on my phone's external SD card and I am pretty sure Sync 2.5.x didn't have this problem (I granted SD card access). The SD card is mounted correctly and I can see all synced files from a FileManager app. I did: 1. reboot the phone 2. check System Settings / App permissions, and Sync 2.6.0 does have "Storage" permission. I suspect that Sync 2.6.0 somehow lost SD card access permission ... is there any way for Sync 2.6.0 to check/ask for SD card access again? or any ideas to fix this issue? Thanks.

This is the "Desktop" version. Android and iOS apps were not part of "Desktop" release (and they don't require licenses as far as I know).

Just installed the beta, I like it!

If you are a Pro user, look at "Selective Sync" https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/205458095-Selective-Sync

Sync 2.5.7(1061) on Windows 10 (Version 1703 , OS Build 15063.540, US English) sometimes goes to a weird state in which double-click on trayicon does not bring up Sync window (trayicon tip still shows up though). I have to restart Sync to get it back to normal state. I saw this issue on both Windows 10 Pro and Home editions.

this? https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/206178884-Running-Sync-in-configuration-mode

Hello, I am running Resilio Sync client on a respberry pi, with a usb drive. I notice that in the storage folder (i.e., main .sync folder), Sync is constantly writing sync.log. This may not be good for usb/flash devices. Can you split the storage folder into 2 parts: 1. persistent: Sync needs these files saved persistently, they should survive between system/Sync shutdown/reboot; 2. impersistent: such as sync.log, Sync does not need them saved, they will be re-created if necessary. impersistent files can be moved to a tmpfs parition, so the constant writings won't wear out usb/flash devices. I have the 1GB RAM raspberry pi, it has 500+MB tmpfs paritions for log.

think twice before you put your "pro" client at "non secure" place... people may be able to get your license file.

Hello, I have posted a question in "General Discussion" forum: Unfortunately, the question never got any answer/support from Resilio Sync officials. It seems to me that current version (2.5.2) only allows a linked device to unlink itself. I would like to suggest a linked-device management feature, which allows any pro desktop clients to unlink any linked device. Sometimes it's impossible to use the linked device to unlink itself, e.g., the device got stolen, got factory reset, or it simply died. I have 2 linked devices that obsolete, one is dead, the other one was factory reset by me (it's getting too slow and erroneous so I had to reset it to fix, but I forgot to unlink it first).

I am sure this would work, but if this is the only answer to my question I would be very disappointed since all devices need to uninstall/reinstall.

Well like I said before in post #1, the device was dead so I could not unlink on it.

@Moe Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I tried to change peer_expiration_days, either by editing it in power user preferences or by modifying my rslsync.config file, after I restarted sync several times, the obsolete device is still there in the linked device list. However, I did notice that my shared folders have reduced peers. I guess this option is working for "peers", not "linked devices".