trevellyan

Your 2nd scenario suggests two identities, but your 1st scenario sounds like one identity plus sharing with outsiders. Whether you need any licenses depends on whether you need any Pro features (identities are not a Pro feature, but My Devices is).

Did you try shift-clicking on the add folder icon? See here: http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1904611-what-s-the-difference-between-2-0-and-1-4-folders-

http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1901257-how-to-downgrade-from-2-0-to-1-4-

What do you see in the web GUI when you hover your mouse over the folder? If there are three dots, click them and enable Sync All. Based on your screenshot, you might need to turn off some of the columns you're displaying to reveal the three dots. See http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1901264-folder-preferences

I haven't used any myself, but there are lots listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_verification_software

OS X's previous versions are not synced, but when you change a file on one peer the other peers store the previous version (on all platforms). See http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1902065-does-bittorrent-sync-support-versioning-

http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1902087-what-data-is-collected-seen-by-bittorrent-inc-when-i-use-sync-

Sounds like you should probably head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Glad to hear you don't consider Sync to be a backup solution, my comment about that was meant to be general, not accusatory. As with most synchronization and backup solutions, when Sync periodically indexes a share, it only looks for metadata changes (times, sizes). Anything else would be too resource intensive. Sync only looks at the content when it's actually preparing to propagate changes. As long as bit rot doesn't affect the metadata, it won't propagate spontaneously. There are other solutions to the bit-rot problem involving the periodic generation of hashes on filesystem content - which is what ZFS has built-in.

Yes, and this is one reason why no synchronization solution should be seen as a backup solution. In your case one approach would be to backup the most important content from your NAS to another bit-rot resistant destination. Note that Sync will not spontaneously propagate bit rot, it will only happen if you modify a file and trigger Sync to transfer it.

Sorry, I missed the detail about sharing a file, not a folder. If your goal is to give people access to a torrent, you could use S3.

Unfortunately, this is entirely possible. Imagine a file has been silently corrupted on your iMac. You make a small change to that file on your iMac and don't notice the bit rot. When you save your changes, the corrupted file will sync back to your NAS.

Correct - see explanation of icons here.

Like most third party software, Sync will see an iPhoto Library as a regular folder. The monolithic appearance is just a trick that the Finder plays on you.

http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1901280-share-window

Here here! And you can set a storage quota for each peer.

You can use the config file to reset the credentials.

If you originally installed using Tuxpoldo's unofficial Linux packages, then you should upgrade using the 'apt-get upgrade' process.

First, recognize that each user has their own Sync database in ~Library/Application Support/BitTorrent Sync, which cannot be up to date for both users at the same time. Now imagine user A is logged in. Sync is running and files are changing, either because user A changed them or because they changed on another peer. Now user A logs out and user B logs in. Sync starts and discovers that files have changed while it wasn't running. This instance of Sync doesn't know that it was another instance of Sync that made the changes. Therefore, this instance of Sync has been presented with changes that occurred while it wasn't running. This is a bad thing. Even worse, imagine if you have fast user switching enabled. Now two instances of Sync could be fighting over the same folders at the same time. Yuck.

I think you might find AeroFS better suited to your requirements.

You do realize that by default Sync's web UI only listens on the loopback address? So you have to tell it to listen on all interfaces if you want to use the web UI remotely.

If you installed using Tuxpoldo's packages, start with dpkg-reconfigure btsync. If not, try these: http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1672241-guide-to-linux http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1670248-advanced-preferences

You might be able to fix this by stopping Sync on all devices, then deleting "thefile.!sync", then starting Sync on all devices.

I think you can expect this to end badly. One thing that's recommended with Sync is to try to avoid changing the contents of a synced folder while Sync isn't running. Your plan will result in this happening each time you switch users.

apt-get remove