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Hello, I have an offline device (an android tablet that died recently and won't boot). The device was linked before to my account and now it stays offline and probably will never come back online. Since I can never access Sync app on this device, how can I unlink it from other devices (linked to my account)? Thanks

I am willing to pay $100, or even more (up to $200) only if 1. I can run my own tracker 2. btsync for windows can be running as system service. At this time, I don't want to pay for 2.0. Frankly btsync's "sorry no system service for you" attitude does not earn my money.

Yes, I have several .db files in .sync folder, and they all have -rw-rw-rw permission for btsync process (running as nobody:nogroup); the .sync folder itself, has drwxrwxrwx permission. PS, since I recreated .sync folder on one of my raspberryPi, I haven't seen the issues, thank you, RomanZ!

Thanks for the reply. 1. The Sync's storage is on an external USB drive plugged in RaspberryPi's USB port, as well as the btsync data folders. I have a script to check if the USB drive has been mounted before starting btsymc 2. The FS is ext4, from mount cmd: /dev/sdb1 on /media/usbdrive type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)3. I can live with the "incoming connection" entries in sync.log. I will try to recreate .sync folder.

I recently upgraded to 1.4.103, and still see this issue. Nobody has this problem except me?

from my btsync 1.3.109 (running on 2 raspberry pi systems), I see many lines of "SyncDb: failed to prepare statement to query metadata - 11" "SyncDb: failed to prepare query to save file info - 11" and "SyncDb: failed to prepare query to save metadata - 11" in sync.log files. The "SyncDb: failed to prepare query to save metadata - 11" line appears every 10 minutes, effectively wakes up usb drives and increases size of sync,log files. What do these line mean? are they serious? Is there any way I can fix that? Also, is it possible to disable logging such as "Incoming connection from 10.10.20.20:52967"? Thanks.

a little bit confusing here... you mean the bug was fixed in 1.4?

If you want a cheap one, most low-end NAS devices are not faster than Raspberry Pi. I am currently using 2 Raspberry Pis to sync ~40GB files and pretty happy. I may get a Zotac pico (P1320) later this year, it has 2GB RAM with an intel atom1.33GHz processor, and I heard that you can add replace its 32GB SSD with a bigger one.

I still don't see the update notification at my Raspberry Pi's webgui. The browsers I tried are Chrome 39 / Firefox 33 / Opera 25 and IE 11, on Windows 7. The place I checked is "Preferences" / Settings dialog, it says "Version 1.3.109 Up to date". What else do I need to force btsync to check new version?

Really, your "Remote Delete" solution does NOT work. If the thief steals for your data, he would take out the harddisk, make a copy, then try to mount it on his system to read it. If he steals for your hardware, he would wipe out everything and install his system. He would NOT try to use your system, figure out your passwords, run your applications, and be stupid at most, connect to the internet to allow you to trace him or remotely delete your data before he reads it. You need to find a better way to protect your data, it could be use some encryption so even the thief gets your data they will have trouble to read it. Meanwhile, probably don't ask for a feature that does not work,

Did you read "README" in the package (which you should have done for every new release)?

I noticed that my Windows (7 and 8.1) btsync client (1.3.109) popped up "new version available" message box for 1.4.92 and 1.4.93. However, my Linux (arm) clients (1.3.109) still think themselves up to date. The Linux clients are started with --config, my configure files have the line "check_for_updates" : true, So my question is, is this new version notice only turned on for Windows clients?

Linux i386 btsync 1.4.92 crashes on an i586 Linux system. The system is debian testing running on an i586 laptop, Linux system is updated with latest patches. $ uname -aLinux btlinux 3.16-2-486 #1 Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) i586 GNU/Linuxbtsync crashes with "Illegal instruction". From strace, it crashes around a brk() call. I have attached strace log. btsync.zip

Please clearly state your system. If it's for any systems other than iOS then I strongly object... thumbnail is the feature for file manager, not for btsync.

@RomanZ Thanks for the reply. I think I found the reason of the issue: I manually moved btsync folders to a different partition and modified "storage_path" in config file (which I guess not enough, some files under .sync folder may still had old paths). I ended up removed all btsync shares and re-added them and now I don't see these messages.

Recently I have seen this lines in sync.log: Blocked downloading file foo1.bar due Connection closed Blocked downloading file foo2.bar due Connection closed Blocked downloading file foo3.bar due Connection closed Blocked downloading file foo4.bar due Connection closed Blocked downloading file foo4.bar due Connection closed This happens every 30 seconds. I checked these files and they are synchronized on peers apparently, What could be the reason that cause this? btsync(ARM) 1.3.109 is running on a raspberry Pi / raspbian,

This is really great! thanks.

Thanks for recommending Syncthing, no only it's open source, it's also 1 executable running as a simple web server for management (just like BTSync for headless Linux), oh how I hope BTSync for Windows could be that simple and clean.

How to turn off debug log for Linux?

I use a script, started by cron every 10 minutes. The script checks if btsync is running, if not, it tries to start btsync. Here's the script, named start_btsync.sh, be sure to run it by user 'apache', also make sure all your btsync folders are owned by user 'apache' (because GoFlex Home mount harddisk with 'apache' as the owner). Change "myuser" to your username, and modify /home/myuser/harddisk if necessary. #!/bin/sh# this script starts btsync, it can be invoked by cron# make sure execute this script by user apache, like this in /etc/crontab:# */10 * * * * apache /home/myuser/harddisk/bin/start_btsync.sh # note:# /home/myuser/harddisk is on your harddisk, not on GoFlex Home's rootfs! # could be softlink like this:# cd ~; sudo ln -sf "GoFlex Home Personal" harddisk# flag files# create $READYFF after harddisk gets mounted: touch $READYFFREADYFF=/home/myuser/harddisk/flagfile/I.am.ready# if you have $DISABLEBTSYNCFF, btsync will be killedDISABLEBTSYNCFF=/home/myuser/harddisk/flagfile/disable_btsync# btsync# btsync's executableBTSYNC=/home/myuser/harddisk/btsync/btsync # btsync's configuration fileBTSYNC_CONF=/home/myuser/harddisk/btsync/btsync.myuser.configBTSYNC0=$(basename $BTSYNC)if [ ! -f ${READYFF} ] ; then exit 0fiif [ ! -x ${BTSYNC} ] ; then exit 0fipid=$(pgrep -u apache -x ${BTSYNC0})if [ -n "${pid}" ] ; then # already running if [ -f ${DISABLEBTSYNCFF} ] ; then killall -9 ${BTSYNC0} fi exit 0fiif [ ! -f ${DISABLEBTSYNCFF} ] ; then if [ -n "$BTSYNC_CONF" ] ; then $BTSYNC --config $BTSYNC_CONF else $BTSYNC fifiexit 0

Thank you for the kindly reply and removing it for the new release.

Although not mentioned in your forum posts, I notice this "This sync space will self-destruct in 10 days." Can you tell us more about it, like, what happens when the sync space self-destructs?

If you ldd btsync from a linux system, you can see that btsync petty much DOES NOT depend on any 3rd party packages. Using XML requires some XML parser, such as libxml, many embedded systems don't include it because it's quite big. This is just a config file, please don't make it so complicated, or even suggest doing that, thanks.

do you configure pam_mount so some directories only available/mounted after 'user' successfully logged in?

I just saw CPU 100% problem on my ARM box running Version 1.1.70. The sync.log shows that one of a sync folder does not have write permission (it was manually created by a user different from btsync process). chmod the folder fixed the problem. However, should btsync sleep for awhile before it re-tries to sync? If there's a permission denied issue, simply keeping retry won't solve it. I also hope that in the newer versions the btsync client is able to notify admin there's problems synchronizing files, like, an alarm icon on webgui.