Rail Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 Good day to you all,Firstly, thanks for the brilliant piece of softwareSecondly, my iTunes holder is being synced now between three computers (2 coming up) and NAS. I am looking at the folder size on NAS, BTsync on MAC and its very different to the real folder size on disk. the difference is around 30+GB. Anyone knows why?Thirdly, how is syncing iTunes and iPhoto overall?Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 Sync cannot sync files whilst they are in use/locked by other applications. This would likely explain why you have differing file counts on your various devices.Try shutting down iTunes et al on your devices, and then Sync should then be able to transfer any files it's not been able to so far!Also, check the contents of your .SyncIgnore files to ensure that 1) They are identical for the folder you're syncing with on each of your devices, 2) Files/folders that you want/expect to be synced haven't been excluded from doing so by the exclusion rules already present in .SyncIgnore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail Posted July 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 Does that mean that iTunes folder will not be synced properly? I understand that the locked files are either ignored by the process or being created as copy with different name, like Dropbox does. To be honest, I really wanted to make sure that BTSync can successfully sync constantly changing set of files like iTunes or iPhoto. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail Posted July 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 Update: iTunes is shut down, closed completely. Not a single file is used or locked. Still 400GB instead of 430GB. Maybe iTunes has some kind of cache or hidden files folder? Or does the actual disk space shown in MacOS differs to the folder content? I am not sure about the latter, but who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail Posted July 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Hey guys! Has anyone synced iTunes and iPhoto successfully? My sync is still running, so experiment has not finished yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagdusmir Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 I had iTunes Media in sync on two devices (depending on your directory structure you should exclude everything containing iTunes metadata). Then I added another device and some files and let it alone some days.... I got many files stuck in sync limbo and some moved to SyncArchive....I did a manual check with ChronoSync (my goal was to replace ChronoSync with something "auto-magic") and have now turned off btsync for everything except the unimportant stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail Posted July 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 depending on your directory structure you should exclude everything containing iTunes metadataShame you had no success(( I suspect it will happen to me as well. BTSync already ignored around 30GB of data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayala Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Are you sure you don't have 30GB's of duplicates in them 400G's of music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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