[I Was In Support Of Sync 2.0, Right Up Till They Broke A Promise]

I also wonder why people who don't like Sync have to come back here everytime to promote SyncThing. It's wouldn't be awfully productive if people who like Sync would go to the SyncThing issue tracker all the time posting messages how it's bad compared to Sync.

 

I don't think calling it promotion is the right world. No body is making money off of telling people to use Syncthing. This is simply a community of people who like to discuss and share, and so it is with every discussion people offer advice and or alternative ways of doing things. It just happened that Syncthings is one of such solution. 

 

Actually, I think it would be quite productive for Syncthings to model their software after Sync (in terms of functionality). I have no problem with people making comparison, credit is giving where credit is due and in this case I would admit that currently Sync does have the upper hand when compared to Syncthings. Some people (myself included), have no issues with Sync as a software, but the company Bittorrent, I think that's what gets to people.

[Backup Ios Photos To Specific Osx Folder]

Automatically choose for you? I was always giving an option was to where I'd like to put the folder in, maybe you skipped a step? I did this for myself, wife and my sister and every time it asks me where I would like to place the folder.

[How Do You See Iphone Photo Backed On The Iphone?]

So I use the BtSync to backup all my photos into the computer, I then delete them (on the phone) from time to time to save space. However, I just noticed that there is actually no way for me to access the backed up photos on the computer (the ones that I have deleted), from the phone itself.

 

Is there a way to see them via the iPhone sync app? Am I missing something?

 

There seems to be workaround, but I want to know if there is a way to access the deleted photos directly from the iPhone sync app. Thanks.

[Ios Location Based Upload?]

Sorry if this was mentioned before, I looked around but I wasn't able to find anything. But I think it would be nice if BTsync for iOS can include location photo upload just like the dropbox app. I love using btsync to upload photos from the phone, as matter of fact during my last trip (I did about 8GB during the trip). But it was rather annoying having to remember to open up the app, and opening up wife's app as well. This would be a great feature for iOS. Thanks.

[I Was In Support Of Sync 2.0, Right Up Till They Broke A Promise]

Some commenters have suggested that the people posting here are the noisy minority.  Why don't we have a poll to see what a larger number are thinking?

 

I have just spent 2 weeks testing syncthing which is unfortunately not ready to handle my requirements.  I sync 5TB of data over 14 nodes and syncthing couldn't handle it.  Development seems very active on the project but on identical hardware it couldn't keep up with the data. 

 

My guess is that Bittorrent feel that there is no real competitor on the market yet who offer exactly the functionality of btsync.  They have a captive market and this release is calculated risk. 

 

Lost trust and disappointment are the key issues here.  All the time invested into setting up btsync and getting friends and family into it now feels like a betrayal to them as well, except I am responsible.

 

1. The new limitations should have been announced ages ago.

2. The arguments about 10 folders being a feature or not are semantic, pedantic, and don't make me feel better.

3. Paying a subscription for upgrades that may or may not appear is crazy, the software already does what I want. 

4. Saying that we can keep using 1.4 for free is only good until the first security flaw is not patched.

5. Sending all our shares via Bittorrent's servers in a post Edward Snowdon world is nuts.

 

I am another angry user who couldn't stay quiet.

 

Could you briefly describe when you say syncthing can't handle the 5TB and 14 nodes? Just curious.

 

I will admit that syncthing isn't as ready as Btsync.

[I Was In Support Of Sync 2.0, Right Up Till They Broke A Promise]

I'm pretty new to BTSync and I really understand why people are upset and I want to add my 2 cents (and something new).

Using softlinks you can get all your folders into one btsync-folder without changing anything.

Only shares with friends will then possibly exceed the limit of 10 connections.

I use this myself with Dropbox with its one folder limit.

The other thing is:

The pro allows selective sync which I didn't find in other projects for a cheaper price.

As I am going to use BTSync for about 2TB of data and want to connect a tablet this is a must have requirement.

So far I don't see a real competitor for this use case, even considered the hefty price.

Do you?

Thalon

As I seem not to be able to edit:

I wanted to mention to, that BTSync has to run relay servers for the easy connection from external (or with friends) despite changing IP addresses, so there are permanent costs even for the free users.

But the price tag is really a bit high though.

I would find 30$ once and 10$ per year enough, new versions should be charged extra.

 

You bought up a very good point "selective sync" as a useful function, and not a purposely placed limitation on the software (10 folders limit). This is exactly what many people have talked about, if you want to make a pro version and charge for it, that is fine, but do add more functionalities to the software, instead of going back on their promise and limit the software.

[I Was In Support Of Sync 2.0, Right Up Till They Broke A Promise]

The Android reviews. The iOS reviews. The twitter metions. This thread.

 

Oops, you Sync guys really dropped the ball on this one. Pretty hilarious.

 

 

I'd say let your money do the support for you, if their model works and people are paying up then so be it, but if people are leaving them  then they will have to do the necessary adjustment.

 

I personally have no problem with whatever they want to do with their marketing strategy and whatever they see fit. My only real concern is that they weren't completely truthful when it comes to 2.0 (which is still okay with me), however, it is actually the action from the company that worries me. Never mind the subscription fee, or whatever limitation they did to that software. I don't feel that I can trust this company, and with their software not being open source, how I can trust that they didn't have some sort of tracking code for backdoor? That is my biggest concern.