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Hi Cipherplain, No, in the end it turns out the mac had a different "identity". So I was able to share the mac directory with the server (the webGUI) via one of the normal sharing keys, but I guess because the mac had a different identity it wouldn't sync from the server to the PC. I had to remove BTSync and reinstall it, and pretty much remove all traces from it so it started with a new profile which I then linked with the existing identity from the server. After that it synced with all devices. Pretty confusing and a shame there's no way to merge or change identities in the GUI. Much preferred the old way, with sharing keys for folders, but glad it's working now. Thanks for your responses :-)

Hi cipherplain, On the server (Debian 8) I'm running the following: ii btsync 2.0.0-2 all Private network P2P file synchronisation daemon(s)ii btsync-core 2.0.93-1 amd64 Private network P2P file synchronisation daemon On my local PC (Windows) I'm running version 2.0.128 (36). On the web interface (the server) I have 3 shared folders. 2 of those are shared with my PC and work correctly. A third one was created recently via a Mac device and connected to the server. The server interface shows me as "Owner" and shows as peers the mac, but not the PC. I want to connect that third folder with the PC as well, but it's not automatically picked up by the PC, even though the other 2 folders are/were. Which is why I was looking for a sharing key. How can I best share this folder between the server and the PC as well? Thanks!

Hi there, I've added a new folder in the BTSync WebUI (running on port 8888) and I'd like to add that folder to the clients I'm running. The new folder is not automatically detected, so I need a sharing key. However, in the web interface, I cannot find any location where I can generate this key. Where can I get the key so I can sync it to other devices?

The files on the Linux side will never be touched, as they will purely be stored there for backup purposes. No actual users are on that linux system- besides me for administration purposes. I'll try to clarify it with an example. Say on the Linux server - I create a shared folder. I want this to be the main (and only) share. So this will be located at i.e. /home/myusername/share_phone/ - so this is the folder I via BTSync. Now - I get a secret code. I want to use this code on my Android phone to sync DCIM/* (files/folders) to /home/myusername/share_phone/DCIM/* (files/folders) So the above is the desired result. What happens instead is that the DCIM/* (files/folders) is added to /home/myusername/share_phone/* < so directly within this folder, without having the DCIM folder as a subdirectory here. Now I realize that I can theoretically create a new folder (on the Linux side) called DCIM - and add this via BTSync and generate a new key for this - but for me that is not ideal. The reason is that I would like to allow non-technical people to use this. That means there may only be a single share, and all they want to do is place their files there as a backup - as a drop-in replacement for dropbox. That means that - with the current implementation, the photos from the DCIM folder would be mixed in with all the other documents, instead of just having them stored away in a subfolder. Creating new folders and importing new secret keys for a new folder is simply too complicated for the people I would like to supply this for. So this comes down to the (feature request?) to allow for sync locations (DCIM/*) to be mapped to a separate folder within the share (/home/myusername/share_phone/any/given/folder/here/* < contents of DCIM/* being shared to this place) - while the main share starts at /home/myusername/share_phone/) I hope my intent is made more clear through this explanation. English is not my native language, so I apologize for the potential language barriers in explaining the issue that I am having.

Hi Helen, Thanks for your response. Is there no way to do this the other way around? I want the backup folder to use a pre-existing secret. This is because the "PC" is actually a Linux server - and its only purpose is to be the "always-online" system. No changes are made from that location, it only has to save stuff so that if the phone decides to die, I still have a backup on that server. I found a somewhat workaround by adding the camera folder directly under "My sync" and using the pre-supplied secret (from the server) - however this places all the camera files in the root folder, while I want them in a subfolder. Thanks again,

Hi all, I would like to replace Dropbox with BTSync - in order to do so I set up a linux server with ecryptfs and I have added a share via the webinterface. I then attempted to add the key into the BTSync app on my phone - wich went fine as well. However, when I select backup folders, they are seen (I think) as new, separate folders with a new secret key that I can copy and share to other folders. This is not what I want - I want to automatically sync all images/videos (similar to how dropbox had the automatic upload to dropbox feature) to a specific folder in the share I created for it on my server. So basically - in the Android BTSync App - the folder that is currently under "Backup" should instead be a folder inside the folder (the share) in "My Sync". How do I link the camera folders to this share? Instead of having BTSync treat it as a new folder with a new secret? Thanks in advance,