Has anyone had any luck running this on Windows 8? Seems like no combination of settings is going to get this API to start. I've followed all the advice above.... Sync.conf is in C:\Users\steve_000\AppData\Roaming\BitTorrent Sync - I've tried setting storage path to that location as well as just a folder in the root directory... I'm thinking I need to run a VM locally running Win 7 or something to get this to work... I echo the previous sentiment - a little logging would take all the guess work out of this... { // path to folder where Sync will store its internal data, // folder must exist on disk "storage_path" : "C:\TestVersion\", // run Sync in GUI-less mode "use_gui" : false, "webui" : { // IP address and port to access HTTP API "listen" : "127.0.0.1:8888", // login and password for HTTP basic authentication // authentication is optional, but it's recommended to use some // secret values unique for each Sync installation "login" : "api", "password" : "secret", // replace xxx with API key received from BitTorrent "api_key" : "My key" } }