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  1. Debian And Ubuntu Legacy Desktop Unofficial Packages For Bittorrent Sync

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    Hi,

     

     

    The main problem, is that I am absolutely not able to reproduce the described effects on any of my systems... What the hell may be the difference between them?!?!

     

    (Communication error 401) => HTTP 401 is "Unauthorized"

     

    This is really strange. Do you have set any credentials on your btsync? There is a way to break it: If you have set any credentials, either by putting them directly in the config file or by entering them in the Web UI, there is no way back to remove them. If you removed the credentials from the config file, they are still in effect since btsync stores them in an internal database. The only way to solve the problem, is to set credentiuals in the config file AND LEAVE THEM THERE. The credentials in the config file will alsoway overwrite former credentials set in the internal database and btsyncindicator will then use them in order to connect to the system.

     

    ok, yes, I have credentials, and setting the credentials in the config -as you proposed- is a workaround that solves this issue.

     

    Two things:

    1) The setup with the credentials somewhere else had been working for months without any problems. The problems have started after the last update.

    2) I guess most of the users don't like passwords stored in the clear somewhere in their filesystem.

     

    Is it likely that we will get an update for this soon?

     

    Thanks and regards,

    tomsam

  2. Debian And Ubuntu Legacy Desktop Unofficial Packages For Bittorrent Sync

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    l, it was paused. But btsync indicator didn´t show up on my ubuntu 12.04.

    After starting manually with btsync start. nothing changed in the log. 

    But the following showed up in the terminal:

    WARNING:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Retrying (0 attempts remain) after connection broken by 'error(111, 'Connection refused')': /gui/token.html?t=1392717328.94WARNING:root:Connection Error caught, displaying error message

    Then exit btsync again and restarted. Then works fine after the restart.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Grz Eric

     

    actually, after the last update on my Xubuntu 12.04 system, I get

    - an exclamation mark in the indicator symbol

    - an error message in the indicator (Communication error 401),

    - the option to open the web interface is disabled (but is running),

    - and if I try to restart, I keep getting the Error caught message:

     

    $ BitTorrent Sync forked to background. pid = 23114
    WARNING:root:Communication Error caught, displaying error message
    WARNING:root:Communication Error caught, displaying error message
    WARNING:root:Communication Error caught, displaying error message
    WARNING:root:Communication Error caught, displaying error message
    WARNING:root:Communication Error caught, displaying error message
    WARNING:root:Communication Error caught, displaying error message
    WARNING:root:Communication Error caught, displaying error message
    ...
     
     
    Has anything gone wrong with the last update?

  4. Special Characters In Filenames

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    Posted · Edited by tomsam

     

    Hi all,

     

    recently, I tried to sync a file with a name similar to the following 

     

    Screenshot - 02022014 - 10:32:03 AM.png

     

    from a Ubuntu 12.04 system (running btsync 1.2.82) to a Windows 7 Pro system (running btsync 1.2.82). The sync didn't start. I googled a little bit, and some users were talking about problems with special chars. Thus, I renamed the file to  "Screenshot_02022014_10_32_03_AM.png" and the sync started and completed.

     

    Can anyone enlighten me a little bit on  what the term "special chars" in this case is supposed to mean? Is there a list of characters that cannot be used? Does this depend on the target system (to be precise on the target file system, e.g. NTFS does not accept "/\*?<>|: in filenames, if I remember well)? 

     

    In other words: What happens, if there is a filename with an illegal filename on the target system? Is there any kind of transformation applied to the filename, or are the files just stuck forever?

     

    In addition, I want to use btsync to synchronize my dad's "Own files" folders to a System R running a unix environment (PC->R only via an RO-secret, target filesystem ext2,ext3 or ext4). Will it be likely that I'll be getting problems with special characters (like Umlauts äöüß) in filenames that my father used on his Windows 7 system?

     

    Regards,

    tomsam

     

    PS R could be a NAS or  simply a USB drive attached to a Pi.