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I'm under Windows Seven After a hot extinction due to another problem, and while BS sync was paused, BS had lost all my configuration. I had to re enter it all. - This is problem number one : how can BS loose all its configuration in a crash? Next problem: I have seen that BS was somehow remembering my configuration when, by mistake, I tried to recreate a share with the button [Add Folder] : I had the incomprehensible message "selected folder is already added to BitTorrent Sync". This folder was not in the BS list, because it was empty. And, the computer being freshly restarted, I only had one instance for BS. On my second computer, henceforth appears my first one twice in every list of clients : one is normal, the other is always disconnected. So when I lost my config, I also lost my internal PC identification. I suppose that every client will forever remember this dead identification as being disconnected unless I remove and reinstall BS on each of them. Am I right ?, or is there a procedure to remove a dead client automatically on each client? An obvious question comes to my mind: - Is it clean to save the "AppData\Roaming\BitTorrent Sync\sync.dat" and "settings.dat" and restore them in this kind of situation ? Is there a clean known procedure to restore a configuration, like - closing BS, - killing all files in the roaming folder, - placing those 2 files - restart BS ?

Contrarily to what I said some days ago, I did not came back to the previous version. I like this version (1.4) especially for the new efficiency of the renaming. This version is a good one, and I feel more sure with BT than before, even though I had no special problems ! The 1.4 UI gives a good synthetic view of what happens, but I still think it is preferable to show elementary entities, like the list of computers connected, etc. But in reality, this is not a so strong wish, for some reasons :- I felt a bit lost without them,- l don't like to lose some possibilities,- I needed to feel confident about the product,- It is a tool one forgets when it works ! Some other problems I had where linked to conflicts between files that I have solved by deleting and restoring them. In this case I prefer this comportment than the discreet deleting or overwriting of the problematic files, so, a it was mostly a good point to BTS ! I also had another curious problem, solved by updating the Android BTS version of my phone. Since then I have nothing to say and I say it!

I agree with most people here: the new UI is less clear, and some things are missing, like the list of connected computers or the list of transfers, for instance. In an analysis there are many tables. Showing them separately, like in the 1.3, is the thing to do if one wants the user to have a clear and transparent perception of the analysis and an intuitive appropriation of it. Trying to show all tables in a single synthetic view can be some time really accurate, but certainly not at the price of hiding the elementary tables, not even talking about the too wide to be practical mono view and others difficulties that didn’t exist before that other peoples are explaining in this thread. That (removing the detailed tabs) clearly is the mistake done here in the 1.4 UI which finally, even if it looks more “pro” than before, is a regression despite the clever work that have been done, unfortunately turning it to inappropriate. I’m sorry to tell the developers that I’m going to reverse my installations, even to the price of declaring again all my paths. Another reason to me to go back to 1.3 is that things are not functioning like before. Some clients are not seen by some others, some folders are indefinitely waiting for a sync with a 0% progression status (55 years), some others seems forever unsynced, etc. I also have been surprised (irritated) by a (stupid) regression in the Android version which prevents a basic user to make a so simple declaration before. I have the impression Bit Torrent Sync lives a crisis in choosing its clients. Being quite the only private syncing solution, the risk of significant client loss is minor but must be considered. I’m supposing there will be a step backward in a future version of BTSync. I’ll be waiting for this (and not only me).