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One thing that I will say that I tried already (which did not work) was using .NET's FileSystemWatcher. When a file was created, the idea was that I get the file that was created and call "set_file_prefs {download: 0}" on it. Unfortunately, it seems to take BTSync a little bit to pick up the file (I am finding ~10 seconds or so, though it isn't consistent), so BTSync doesn't know about the file by the time I call set_file_prefs.

The topic was introduced here, http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/25556-selective-sync-behaviour/, but had no response, so I thought I'd re-introduce it. Basically, I have set selective_sync on a folder, but unfortunately it seems that when files are added they are still automatically sync'd (running the get_files API method yields {"download" : 1} on the newly added files). Is this intended behavior or just one of those Beta phase items? I think I personally would expect the files to be {"download" : 0} by default when added to a folder that has selective_sync turned on. Has anyone come up with a potential work-around?

I was just going to ask this exact same question; good thing I looked first. In an effort to implement somewhat of an "on-demand" type of sync, I noticed that the default "download" option for a file inside of a "selective_sync=1" folder was "download = 1". I also agree that in this scenario, download=0 would likely be the expected default option (as I was expecting). This obviously doesn't help you, but I had to agree with your opinion.