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I just found GreatMarko's response in http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/32238-1493-how-to-see-queued-files-to-be-synched/?hl=queue thread. I tried this, and did find the Queue list. However, none of the "missing" files (with only BTS placeholders) are in the queue. I tried to access the files again, but I still get the "XXX already in Queue" error. ???

First, I'm using BT to sync between 2 of my own PC's (saves schlepping a laptop around). I "manually" setup several devices (copied same root files to each device) and then setup BitTorrent on each. After several days of modifying files on various machines, I noticed I've got about 100 files on 1 PC that have somehow ended up being BTS placeholders! None of these are files I've modified since the original setup. Worse yet, on the other PC, about 50% of the files are now BTS placeholders, INCLUDING the 100 that are BTS on the other PC - Where did the original file go???? BitTorrent is acting as if everything is synced. I manually try to open/sync the BTS placeholder, and I get an error "XXX file already in Queue". There's no rhyme or reason to which files are placeholders; in some cases, and entire folder is BTS, in others some (or most) of the files in a directory, but not others. Some folders have all the files. I've appeared to have lost the 100 originals from the one PC (I can restore from a backup, but I don't want to do that until I figure out whats causing this problem). In some cases, I'm going to have to restore from the backup, which is about 2 weeks old. In most cases, I'm going to have to manually compare last modified dates to restore my originals. Help! Windows 7 x64 (on both PC's), Free version on both, setup with Pro trial. Pro trial has expired on one, but not the other. Both PC's setup with OWNER and SYNC ALL. Devices setup with Sync on 6 folders. The folder drive is encrypted (DiskCryptor) on one PC, not on the other (yet). Unencrypted drvie on 2nd PC is receiving files through BT with no encryption issues. I thought I'd have issues because the 2nd PC's drive hasn't been encrypted yet, but the files that are syncing appear to be "arriving" and "sending" correctly.

If you change it to Disconnect, then it won't sync. When do you switch it back to Sync? When you've got the basic folder content manually copied over? Never? At what point does BT check and realize which files have the same last modified date (or whatever) and realize it doesn't have to do anything yet? The Folder Sync Mode link doesn't really discuss how to seed the different PC's, just what each mode does. I tried this (I just disconnected from the internet during the copy, I didn't switch to Disconnect), but when I looked at the original PC about an hour after reconnecting the target PC to the internet, the "originals" on the main PC were disappearing. Before I realized what it was doing and aborted BitTorrent, I'd lost about 35gb of data (99% of which, thankfully, I had backups of) of 107gb.. I did try to to just connect two of the PC's and let everything sync "normally," but after 4 days only 48gb of 107gb had synced. I have a 5mps data speed, but I also tried a wired peer-to-peer connect for a day with no change in the apparent transfer speed. There has to be a way of manually seeding the target PC's so to avoid the initial sync time for large amounts of data. Thank you!