stevenmarq Posted April 23, 2013 Report Share Posted April 23, 2013 Hello everybody,I am trying to share my music folder with my brother. I copied the whole directory to his computer (using an external hard drive) and gave him the associated read-only secret.After adding the read-only secret on his computer, BitTorrent Sync started transferring the whole folder contents from my computer to his. The software did not realize that the files on his computer are already there and up-to-date.We're both using Sync v1.0.116. Any help would be appreciated. It would take forever to sync all those files over the internet.Thanks, Steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kos13 Posted April 23, 2013 Report Share Posted April 23, 2013 Do you see an actual transfer, or just files in "Transfer" tab with the speed 0?Sync see file with the same file name but different timestamp, so it decides that files are different and need to be synchronized. Sync shows file in "Transfer" tab, then it scans both files tries to find what needs to be transfered. Then it detects that files are identical and the only change that needs to be made - change timestamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenmarq Posted April 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2013 No, unfortunately Sync is really transferring files (upload speed > 0).I can also see from the devices tab that there are still 26 GB of files to transfer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kos13 Posted April 23, 2013 Report Share Posted April 23, 2013 speed might be more than 0 - it shows Sync traffic but not actual file data. Devices will show also big numbers. This is again due to a fact that Sync assumes it needs to synchronize everything, but later it discovers that nothing needs to be transfered.This use case is not clear from UI perspective and could be optimized. However Sync will not re-transfer this 26GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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