norrisg

I find it very hard to believe that anyone could think that opening a file before determining if it should be ignored is a good idea. Since I'm new here, I will refrain from saying exactly what I think about doing it that way round, but really? Open and only then check if you should have done it? This certainly explains why I've had problems with applications (not the MS Office programs) not being able to open their own files despite those files being excluded. Related, but slightly different, wouldn't the best way of reading files for sync be to use shadow copy on Windows, so the file can be used as normal while it is being copied by BTSync? This doesn't fix any write conflicts, but it should fix read conflicts.