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Can I ask what I should expect in the way of stability and reliability of 1.4.x? My setup is this : 1 x Raspberry Pi working as a hub (External 2tb disk) 1 x Android phone 1 x iPad 1 x iMac 1 x Macbook 1 x Mac Air 1 x Sony Viao (All recycled but reliable computers.) 1 x Document folder (10gb General files, docs, images) 1 x Lightroom folder (200gb) 1 x Media folder (400gb) 1 x Share folder for friends (2gb) The smaller document and share folders work well apart from occasionally deleting entire folder structures for no good reason. Which is nice. The two larger folders are simply a pain. Forever out of sync, coming up with daft progress reports such as '7mb/s, 2mb left, 90% 15 years remaining', copying to '0 of 5 peers' or indexing for hours on end. I gave up months ago letting sync copy the larger files and generally use other methods to move these between machines. I suppose one option would be to give v2 a go but slow, unreliable transfers have been present on the larger folders since the first 1.4 versions so I've no reason to suspect that it would be a huge improvement. My understanding is that Sync was designed with larger files and file structures in mind but it seems that it's best at doing what Dropbox does. My question is this, should I expect Sync to be able to reliably synchronise larger files and structures between machines or should I accept that it's great for smaller installations and leave it at that?

How about putting the latest versions in a folder and giving us all the key to access the share? Means we'll always have the newest version regardless of the auto update situation. Seems like a job that Sync was invented for? :-)

@RomanZ Can we have a go at fixing my main issue, deleted files reappearing.... I've posted here http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/31990-correct-sync-behaviour/ I've seen this issue mentioned on the forums before but there doesn't seem to be a solution. Perhaps you can help us with this?

Hi, Does anyone know what logic is used by Sync to decide what to do about deleted files? I've stripped back my usage of Sync to a simple document folder across a number of machines (OSX, Win7 & Linux) but I'm forever seeing files/folders that I've deleted reappearing. I expect to be able to delete a file or folder and for that file/folder to be removed from all of the other clients. If all client machines are online and connected (and fully synchronised) at the time of deletion then everything works fine. If any of the machines happen to be off (which is usually the case) then I'm generally seeing deleted files/folders reappearing when the missing machine is reconnected. Am I missunderstanding what btsync is supposed to do? Any words of wisdom appreciated as I'm finding it a little frustrating!

Same here, very frustrating....

@Petrenko_denis @romanz I had the same, Selective Sync (non-auto) used on latest Android version of the app. For a week or so, only files that I selected got downloaded. This is how I would expect the app to function. Unfortunately sync then tried to download the entire contents of the folder. Very warm phone in my pocket was my warning that something was wrong and I cancelled the sync and deleted the folder before the file system got completely filled up! No idea why as I'd not used sync on the phone for a couple of days before this happened.

As far as I'm concerned, making it absolutely clear that this is Beta software is a missed opportunity... Most average users now expect software to just work. Modern operating systems, smart phone apps and mobile OS's have changed user perception of what is acceptable. Your average computer user also has Android or an iPhone and expects to see the same stability and usability that they see on their mobile OS. BitTorrent Sync has so much potential, it was widely reviewed and publicised with lots of positive feedback. This obviously leads to people downloading and installing BtSync. If it then doesn't work, only a minority (fellow geeks!) then go to forums etc to deal with their issues. Most would un-install and revert back to Dropbox/Box/iCloud etc. Personally, I'd prefer to have the core product sorted before upgrading the UI. The new interface is nice but it's interfacing software that doesn't seem to work properly. That's a mistake in my eyes.... I've gone back to other sync software for my music libraries, Dropbox for my documents and I'll see how BtSync goes with my photo library. I can't have my phone crashing or deleted files reappearing so BtSync has been removed from my phone and iPad and I'll try again when the forums look less noisy... Keep up the good work, it'll be a great product at some point!

I've tried BitTorrent Sync 1.3 and 1.4 and have to say that whilst it's a great idea I'm more than a little underwhelmed by it's ability to actually synchronise files. I have a Pi running rasbian linked to 2 x Macs, a Windows machine, an Ubuntu box, an Android phone and an iPad. Most of these devices have an issue with Sync 1.4.75. The Pi is incapable of synching anything with special characters in the filename (fresh install). I also have to run a cron job to keep an eye on btsync as it crashes so often. The iPad app crashes on a regular basis (New iPad, few other apps installed) The Windows machine blue screens then reboots if I allow Sync to run for too long (Win 7, fresh install). Deleted files sometimes reappear....?? Last straw was my phone (Nexus 5) trying to melt it's way through my pocket after Sync tried to download a huge folder of files even though Auto-Sync was disabled.... The only fully successful and stable sync happens on a small document folder between the two Mac machines. If it was just the Pi then I'd put it down to my mediocre grasp of linux but it's pretty much every device! This sort of behavior is fine for beta software but it's not advertised as 'beta' so what am I missing?

It's fat32 on an external USB disk, Pi locale is set to UTF, doesn't seem any reason for this to be such a pain... But as I said, I've given up on sync for my music Library..... Now it's the turn of my android phone which has decided to ignore the 'Auto-Sync' setting and fill up the SD card with files! Joy.....

Ok, so I've given up on being able to sync files that include special characters. Music from European bands that are cheeky enough to not use standard UK/US characters in the band or track name are now excluded from sync... Perhaps the community can assist me with another sync issue? Magically reappearing files and folders? Again, I've seen this mentioned on the forums but the suggested fixes don't apply to my setup. Deleting files on one machine ends up in them eventually reappearing back in the same folder. All machines are on 1.4.75. File/folder permissions are all correct, eg, owned by user running btsync. BitTorrent Sync seems like a great idea but I can't see how it could be a viable replacement for something like Dropbox if it's not very good at actually synchronising files? I'd have thought that cross platform sync would be a basic requirement..... If a prerequisite to using it is to have Jedi master levels of command line knowledge then is it going to gain much traction?

Hi all, I've seen this written about many times in the forums but haven't yet found a solution. I'm unable to sync files between computers that have special characters in the names, eg 'Á' 'ë' etc. I'm synching across a mac, an windows box and a Raspberry Pi. Mac & Windows are happy. The Pi is not... The log is constantly spitting out errors such as 'SyncFileEntry: failed to create folder /home/pi/Store/Media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Tiësto' I've seen two suggested fixes, one if to confirm UTF-8 encoding on all machines, which I've done. Another was to allow the Pi to recreate the folder (I'd prepopulated it on the Mac) Neither fix has made any difference. A third suggestion was to remove all special characters from the file names but the library is huge so not really an option. Bit Torrent Sync runs as 'btsync' and owns the folder it's trying to populate. All versions are up to date. Btsync has been at 93% CPU for a week trying to work through the folder, I suspect this is due to the file name issues. Is there any way to sync files with special characters to a linux box? Am I missing something basic?