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  1. Good morning everyone, 

    I'm having some issues with the port situation with Resilio Sync. My set up is I have a computer acting as a server for my home, it hosts my entire family's documents and images with versions which I love. I also have Mullvad VPN installed on the desktop server (Windows i5 on Windows 10 Pro). I have successfully set it up to open the ports for Plex to view videos out of home and stream to my in-laws / parents and such with 0 speed issues (having a symmetrical 600mb line) . Resilio sync is another issue. I rarely get over 25kb over wan (which is fine for documents, but anything else is a nightmare), yet I can stream 4k over Plex over WAN no issue to my parent's TV in another house or multiple instances with Watch Together of 1080p streams to friends' computers over Europe. But Plex has a very easy guide on how to open those ports. 

     

    I was using the wrong page to open ports. The correct page, as mentioned below, is this one: https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754759-What-ports-and-protocols-are-used-by-Sync-

    I have tried to understand the Resilio ports page (Ports protocols & ports forwarding required by Resilio Connect – Resilio Connect) , can anyone dumb it down a bit and tell me what ports to open to get full speed sync back while using the VPN?  For instance, Mullvad has their own tutorial for Plex (Plex with Mullvad - Guides | Mullvad VPN) but I can't seem to find any help for Resilio. I imagine the process is the same, but with different ports. But I can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

    Thank you. 

  2. Hi!

    This is my setup.

    Central home server with all folders synced to it.

    Desktop with most folders synced to it.

    Laptop with some folders synced to it.

    All are running windows 10. 

    I'm not receiving any errors or locked files. It just spins at the bottom of the system tray, and does nothing. All files are 100% synced. If I add a new file, it gets synced. If my desktop modifies a file, and saves it, it gets synced. In fact, this behavior is only on my laptop, a Surface Pro 4. All files are always syncing correctly. It's just doesn't stop spinning for some strange reason. I open the program and no files are locked. Nothing is getting sent / received since there is nothing to send or receive. 

  3. Hello everyone. I have a question that hopefully you guys can help me solve. I got the update for 2.5.2 and I updated it, but ever since, the icon spins constantly. It's been well over a week. This is fine on my desktop, but I'm worried about using it on my laptop. It's always using .01% CPU and .1 mbs on the connection. Since this is always happening, I'd say it's using too much CPU and keeping my internet connection active. I am getting 2 hours max on my laptop with Resilio open. Closed down, I'm getting my 7 hours (like before this update). I don't understand why it keeps spinning - nothing is syncing. 

     

    Any ideas or recommendations? 

    Thank you in advance. 

  4. Hello everyone.

    I am trying to sync my Lightroom content from my desktop to my laptop for when I'm on the go. The first time, I told the Lightroom catalogue to just stay in it's normal place and I synced it normally. It saves in the user\Pictures folder on Windows. After a few days of working in LR, I saw my server space went from 600gb free to 50gb free. Every change I made in LR, it synced and created a new archive to my server. And since the server saves all changes for 45 days, I'd have hundreds upon hundreds of versions of the LR catalogue.

    I searched a bit and found this link

    https://help.getsync.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754239-Does-Sync-support-versioning-

    And it says:

     

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    You can also set the maximum file size to be versioned by adjusting the Max archive file size parameter.

    1 stands for 1Mb, so 1000 means that the maximum file size is set to 1000Mb.

     

     

    I'm not sure if this setting I found above would limit the number of total file size changes? For example, if I set it to 2000, that would give me roughly 2gb of file versions. But what happens after that? If I set it to 5000, and it keeps roughly 5gb of changes, does it begin to delete the OLDEST ones first?

    Normally I don't mind about the number of file versions, because most images or documents are, at most, 40mb. But my LR catalogue is 900mb, and every time I make 1 stroke or change 1 tiny thing, the whole catalogue gets backed up (which I want), but the number of versions gets out of hand.

    Are there any solutions anyone could think of?

    Thank you very much. :)

     

  5. Well you can sync a Truecrypt/Verycrypt container with sync. There are plenty of threads on here regarding that kind of usage.

    Really? Thank you for the idea, but, Veracrypt doesn't work. It's identical to creating a virtual hd. It creates all the space already, therefore BTSync doesn't see any file changes or size changes. Just in case, I also tried Veracrypt to verify this as well, and sure enough, I created a 500 mb file empty, synced it over across devices. Opened it on another device, added a file to it, demounted the file, gave it like 5 minutes, and nothing. 

  6. Hello, I'm looking for some suggestions. I want to password protect a folder in Windows with some app or some solution that's also syncable with BT Sync. I have tried creating a virtual disk within Windows 10, and selected a size of 4GB, which is enough for now since my data is 2.5GB. Virtual disk didn't really sync well with changes, by nature I suppose, between my work computer, laptop and home computer. 

     

    I also tried Folder Protector, which works VERY well on the original PCs, on the destination PCs that password protected folder is searchable and explorable with very little skill set (without knowing the password). All I had to do was put in the windows search at the folder location: <anything> and it would search the "invisible" com1.{folders} and find the data! Then, right clicking and open folder location and done, complete access.

     

    So... I'm sure there are more people here that do this, I'd like to know your solutions. I need to encrypt a folder in a file or the folder itself so that it's not viewable or searchable without a password. I'd need it to open up in a windows-explorer-esque style (previewing images, videos, documents, etc.). 

     

    Any suggestions? Thank you :)

  7. This is what I do (and I'm sure it's not necessary, but I since I don't want to lose anything, I still just do it like this):

    1. Find the original folder and rename it to "...old" so if it's "documents" it's now "documents old"
    2. Add the sync again, and that creates the new folder "documents." 
    3. Press pause on that computer, and move the "old" contents into the new one that had just been created.
    4. Press resume sync
    5. Done!

    It has never failed me yet, and I have done this about 5-6 times since I don't want to sync 60gb of data again. Haha. I can't imagine syncing 5TB of data! Uff.... 

  8. Ahh, thanks for clearing that up, I missunderstood the website, when it talked about volume licencing sounded like it is 40 per device. Yes I agree, subscption modle is wrong for what they are selling, I hope they see the light on that.

    I would love to go back to 1.4. I have screwed my self by updating to v2. Because I have a few IPhones I use BTsync to backup photos. No way to downgrade apps on iphones as far as I know :(. But I may just setup a compleat seperate BTsync server for the apple stuff and downgrade everything elce.

    Why would you need to downgrade an iPhone? V2 is backwards compatible with 1.4. Keep updating on mobile devices but keep your main devices as 1.4.
  9. Hello. I am on a Surface Pro 2, and I run BTSync of course. The scaling is quite small. It's easily fixed by pinching to zoom as if it were a web interface. It would be great for BTSync to recognize DPI scaling on its own. Or is there a way to change it now? If not, I'd like it to be a feature to be improved upon! Thanks :)

  10.  

    I quote from your link

     

    if you select the checkbox, those files which have already been synced in full, will be deleted. If you'd like to revert to BTS files, leave the checkbox clear and just hit OK. 

     

     

    This was NOT my case. I had already synced everything, and it had been finished for days. I later went through a folder and found an image, for example: image.jpg. Right next to it was image.jpg.bts

     

    I thought it was strange. I opened image.jpg and it was perfect. So why was there a .bts? I deleted it with no ill effect on that file as it had already been downloaded. I understand it should have disappeared after having been downloaded; but alas, it hadn't. So I just deleted it myself seeing I had both: The original file (in perfect working order) and a .bts file. 

    thanks, how did you delete the .bts file? I can't see on the RPi nor can I delete from my (Android) Tablet. Cheers, Geoff.

     

    Go to your desktop and delete. It should disappear. I had the same setup as you: RPi as main server. It synced the .bts files but for some reason I had it duplicated: image.jpg and image.jpg.bts. I checked the .jpg on my desktop, and it worked fine, so I just deleted the .bts. 

  11. Hello again. I thought I'd update with some idea concepts. 

     

    I was thinking, after some emails with your support team, on how to implement this. It would be great if you could have the option in the advanced settings to put in the ".syncArchive" folder another folder called "Thumbnails" which would need to be turned on by the user. In which case, the device with that option on would go through the folders you selected and create small thumbnails for each image or grab a frame from a video and store them in the .syncArchive. That device would then be the only one who sends out the thumbnails to devices that ask for it. The task could also be a subtask that gets very little CPU time and therefore won't need a lot of CPU cycles when in need (another option, possibly?)

     

    Here's an example:

     

    A person with 1 server and 3 PCs, a tablet and a smart phone.

     

    The server could generate all the data thumbnails and store them as in the options and store them locally. On a PC that already syncs everything it won't need to send any files. On a PC that uses the placeholder, upon loading that folder for first time or asking a sync for all placeholders to find the changes, it would download the thumbnails from the server. This would be the same in the case of a tablet or a phone. 

     

    An option could be to also share the thumbnails and save them locally on each device up to a certain amount of MB(?), let's say "50mb of thumbnails." That way you don't need to ALWAYS download ALL the thumbnails EVERY TIME you load the folder, thus generating less CPU cycles and data bandwidth.

     

    I know I'm not a programmer, and please forgive me if my concept is far to crude or silly. I just thought I'd share my idea with the forum. I know that the majority of you are much smarter than I am in programmer. So, once again, forgive me :)

  12. I am very surprised by this I didn't get a warning or anything. Just updated all of my phones and computers one day and boom. 30 day count down tell dooms day. I am partialy to blame for not researching this myself, I just honestly didn’t have time.  With work and school being so crazy, I honestly don’t know what I am going to do about this. I don’t really have time anymore to deal with this when my syncing system totally dies. So that is awesome. (15days left)

     

    I don't think a subscription really fits the BTsync model. Subscription is really for if I am renting or buying a service from you or if I am getting support. I don’t consider BTsync any of those things. I am using your program that I host myself.

     

     

    But my real concern is per device cost problem.

    It is my understanding this is 40 dollars per device, correct? Because I personally have 2 phones, 1 laptop, 3 desktops and 2 servers all running BTSync. That I personally use. I can tell you right now I am not paying $320 a year so I can sync my files. Honestly I love BTSync, but I don’t think you’re going a direction that I like, and I really can’t afford it.

    The only ways I could consider BTsync is

     

    If the price per device was lowered per device, or the 10 folder limit was removed, or if the pricing was change to be an overall account. Like a linked account, or something.

    I am totally fine for paying for BTsync, but $320 a year is way too expensive and I really can’t afford it, especially for only a year of Service. It make no sence considering there are others services out there that offer a better deal. L

     

    I really love BTsync, I hope you reconsider and change your current modal.

     

    No, it's 40 a year per person. So, if you have 1 device it's 40. If you have 20 devices, it's the same 40.  But, as you can see with this new model, if you add a folder to one of your devices; the ABILITY to see the folder is loaded on ALL devices... You'd need to connect of course, but the ability to see the folder is there. So you can't give your key to EVERYONE under your 40. So if you have 400 devices yourself, you'd still only pay 40 a year. 

  13. Hmm... I see both points of view. I for one don't mind the 40 dollars a year charge for one simple reason: the ability to get files on demand. This is VERY useful from my Surface Pro, tablet and phone. I run a Raspberry and Banana Pi server. So being able to grab all my data on the go (for example, 65gb of pictures, or 15gb of documents) when I need it is just awesome. I found it really creepy to host my data in the cloud (dropbox, onedrive) so I searched and searched and found BTSync a while back. I had several different folders, like "Pictures for all devices" which synced the pictures I wanted on every device. I couldn't have all my pictures on my Surface Pro because of limited space. But now, with 2.0, I can! I can pick any picture I want, and it'll download it off from my Banana Pi and tada!!! downloaded and ready to be downloaded! I really REALLY hope they allow thumbnail syncing.... That would make it AWESOME.

     

    So, to sum up... I would MUCH rather pay 40 for the software permanently... but 40 a year isn't too bad. Plus, I'll give it a try for one year. If there isn't sufficient development to merit clients paying 40 a year for tiny bug fixes rather than actually meriting the money for features and upgrades, then that would be the end of my subscription... Syncthing has been improving. So who knows, maybe in a year they'll be far ahead of BTSync if BTSync doesn't work to earn our hard earned cash... :) 

  14. It's not only on mobile devices. I sync from my RPi to multiple desktops to keep them in sync and mobile devices, sometimes I see .bts files and I see the name and the original file! So ... It's like a left over file from something else? I'm not sure. But seeing that I had the original file and was able to open it with no problem, I just deleted the bts file. 

  15. can you please check out this article on the problem? it has some tips on what needs to be checked in network settings

    The thing is that it's only on my phone. I have a laptop and I take it with me to work. Both connected to the same Wifi network my laptop picks up the sync server from my house but my phone doesn't... I've tried opening the ports to the raspberry pi by checking the settings to see which port it was listening to and proceeded to open them. Same result... [emoji20]
  16. Hello, I started this thread, but I guess I should have posted it here. So I'll copy and paste it.

     

    http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/37882-cant-see-my-devices-over-wan-but-over-lan-yes/

     

     

    Hello. I just realized that my devices aren't visible over WAN! Today I went to my parents house and wanted to get a file. I loaded it up and it said I had 0 peers! That's impossible because I have a dedicated Raspberry Pi always on. 

     

    I go home to see that it was on, and I didn't understand why. Now I'm sitting on my Desktop (with BTSync) and my Pi (with BT Sync) over LAN they appear on peers that are active. While over WAN they don't! It says 0 peers. I used it over 3G/4G as well as over Wifi at my parents house on my. 

     

    Even sitting right here in front of it, I grab my phone (with mobile data enabled in the options) I open Sync, it says that I have multiple peers (my desktop and RPi), and I turn off wifi and all my peers disappear. They don't come back either until I turn on wifi! 

     

    Am I missing some setting? This is my current configuration:

     

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

     

     

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  17. Hello. I just realized that my devices aren't visible over WAN! Today I went to my parents house and wanted to get a file. I loaded it up and it said I had 0 peers! That's impossible because I have a dedicated Raspberry Pi always on. 

     

    I go home to see that it was on, and I didn't understand why. Now I'm sitting on my Desktop (with BTSync) and my Pi (with BT Sync) over LAN they appear on peers that are active. While over WAN they don't! It says 0 peers. I used it over 3G/4G as well as over Wifi at my parents house. 

     

    Am I missing some setting? This is my current configuration:

     

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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  18. +1 for this. I would like to give an example. I went on vacation over the summer and between myself, my brother, his partner, & my partner, we had over 2,000 pictures. I keep them all on my desktop, no problem. But on my tablet (Surface Pro) and my phone (android in this case), I can't see what each picture is. The files all have date and time stamps, that's it. That's how I like it. Embedded of course is more information like GPS, camera model, etc., but it doesn't help that I would have to click on a file, wait for the 2-5mb download just to see what it is. 

     

    I keep BTsync all synced together via a centralized server, so that no matter when my PC is off, the others can get their updated information. It would be awesome if it could be an option or even in the .sync folder to have an extension that would allow the device (the PC or server) to generate the thumbnails that could be synced over to other devices. Or even an internal method so that BTSync can send only those thumbnails. 

     

    This would be of tremendous help. Especially when considering that it would be a paid option, I would for sure fork over the dough for it. On another note, I am on a trial of the Pro version, and I wrote 4-5 days ago, and they still haven't gotten back to me... Is that normal? I mean, it says if you pay you get "pro support." Is there a time frame for it? Or will just leave us hanging. It could also be the holidays! Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it!