[Bittorrent Sync Logging Every Single Filename I See]

2 hours ago, Helen said:

1) logs the Shell extension for for folders where Selective Sync is on. Each file in such folders has an icon, that green tick and sync small icon on the folder, on it --> logged. 

Do you mean that this file should only log the files I have chosen to sync?  If so, it doesn't.  It actually logs every single file and folder that so much as appears on my screen in Windows, even with BitTorrent Sync totally shut down or even uninstalled completely.  If you mean it logs every single file/folder where the option to sync is added to the right-click menu, then that's a potential privacy issue, as, from what I can see, by default, that's everything that so much as is displayed on-screen, and it doesn't give people confidence that you respect their privacy when a bit of your software logs this, even if that logfile does nothing more than sit on the hard drive steadily getting bigger.

2 hours ago, Helen said:

2) cause they are registered in the system. You need to unregister ShellExtension.dll from AppData and ProgramFiles, and perhaps delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\BitTorrent Sync\EnableOverlay key from registry. Note - all icons will be removed. To unregister use command "regsvr32 /u path to dll" 

3) Did the icons remain on the files after uninstalling Sync? We will fix that and remove the log after uninstallation. So far, please try what's mentioned in 2). 

 

If you mean the icons and options added to the right-click menu, they did actually disappear when I uninstalled BitTorrent Sync, but the logfile kept logging.  However, your instructions appear to work and allow me to delete the logfile and the two .dll files, and, so far, there is no hint of them reappearing.

[Bittorrent Sync Logging Every Single Filename I See]

I have an extremely disturbing problem.  I have discovered a log file in the BitTorrent Sync program folder, named ShellExtIO.log, which appears to be logging the filename of every single file that appears on my screen.  I only discovered it because space was disappearing on my hard drive, and I managed to track it down to this log file, which was 900MB in size, and opened it to see what it was, and saw every single file I had looked at for the past 4 months neatly listed in here.  So I want answers to a few questions:

1)  What is the purpose of this logfile?

2)  Why can't I delete it (luckily, I can overwrite the file with an empty file of the same name, but I can't actually delete it, as Windows tells me that it's in use)?

3)  Why is this logfile not uninstalled with BitTorrent Sync, along with two .dll files, and is still logging away?