Issue: 1.1.70 replaces new files with older ones from remote server

[hhz]

Hi!

• running btsync 1.1.70 on Linux (Ubuntu)
  
• three machines (home, office, laptop)
  
• time settings are ok, using ntp on all three machines
  
• using btsync to keep track of my FLAC collection while re-tagging files
  
• there's a folder Audio/Archiv/flac/ that contains a digital archive of my CD collection, ripped to FLAC files
  
• there's another folder Audio/Sonos/flac2mp3/ that contains MP3s encoded from these FLAC files, so that I can put them on my MP3 player
  
• on August 27, I
  
  • stopped btsync on the office machine
    
  • threw away the old flac2mp3 folder
    
  • created a new empty one
    
  • and re-encoded the whole folder from the original FLACs with different lame settings
    
  • resulting files had newer timestamp (Aug 27)
    
  • then started btsync again
    

  [*]expected behaviour would have been that btsync would now begin to replace the whole flac2mp3 folder on the other two machines with the newer files from the office machine

  [*]but for unknown reasons, the office machine now began to replace some, but not all of its newer files with older version from the other two machines

  [*]Before sync:

  md5sum * ; ls -lh *

  c79f5bfc13f17347ca5531fab00d5b30 11 - Wasted Kisses.mp3

  -rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 4,7M Aug 27 18:44 11 - Wasted Kisses.mp3

  [*]After sync:

  e2aa07f2ff9d49fa9d8ba6a41073e253 11 - Wasted Kisses.mp3

  -rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 4,7M Aug 21 15:24 11 - Wasted Kisses.mp3

Sent a redacted log for this file to the syncapp@ email address. Posting here so that others can report if they have seen the same behaviour.

Thanks!

[Belmont_SRi]

I'm having a same problem all windows PC's running 1.1.48, If I update a file on one PC while the other two are off when the other two come back on the file I updated reverts back to a copy from one of the PC's that was off at the time. Also having another issue related to this if I delete a file on one PC when the other two are off it comes back once the other PC's are back on. Also why cant I press enter on the post.

[greentown]

I don't have such a complex setup and thus I haven't experienced those problems. But if what you're explaining is the current behaviour of btsync (and not some kind of bug due to your settings or similar): WOW, what a disappointment. From a user perspective you expect btsync to do a correct synchronisation, so new files should overwrite files with the same name if they are older.

[dephiros]

Bittorent sync has been working great so far for me for 2-3 months until now. All I did was adding another computer running Debian to my setup. I realize since then that file has been synced 1-2 days late. I lost my progress on several assignments for schools. Luckily, they are stored in the .sync_archive folder. I turned bittorent sync off and use rsync manually for now. It is a pity because it is such a great product when it works.

[vadimt]

Bittorent sync has been working great so far for me for 2-3 months until now. All I did was adding another computer running Debian to my setup. I realize since then that file has been synced 1-2 days late. I lost my progress on several assignments for schools. Luckily, they are stored in the .sync_archive folder. I turned bittorent sync off and use rsync manually for now. It is a pity because it is such a great product when it works.

 

What BTSync versions are you using?

There was a bug in apk for android when app overwrites files with older versions.

It should be fixed in the latest 1.2.12 apk (http://syncapp.bittorrent.com/android/BTSync-1.2.12.apk).

Thanks!

[hhz]

I did not use the Android version, only Ubuntu / Debian as described in the first post. I have never received a response to my bug report (via mail) or a specific reply to this thread here.

 

Since that bug report, I have stopped using btsync here for fear of further data loss.

[GreatMarko]

Since that bug report, I have stopped using btsync here for fear of further data loss.

 

Firstly, remember that Sync is currently only "beta" software - if you're worried about data loss, you probably shouldn't be using "beta" software to synchronize your important data!

 

Secondly, Android aside - what versions of Sync are you using on you other devices? This thread originally relates to 1.1.70 - this is a very old version are Sync. Are you using the latest version (1.2.73) on all your devices and still seeing this issue?

[hhz]

I'm very aware that this is beta software.

 

Because of this, I sent a bug report to the email address that the developers asked us beta users to send bug reports to. Also, I wrote about the issue here in this forum.

 

To both, there was no response from the developers. Forgive me for not trying to recreate a bug when the developers don't announce that they looked into it. I checked the release announcements and saw no mentioning of it, either.

 

Also, I wasn't not the one with the Android issue or the almost-lost homework, that's dephiros.

[thiggins73]

As noted above, I had my financial (Quickbooks) files overwritten by older ones betweet WindowsXP and Windows7 overnight. A full day's work had to be reentered.

Bittorrent has been removed from my system pending resolution of this problem.

[Harold Feit]

Using what specific version of sync?

 

If you are using a 1.1.x version, you are running code that likely has the problem.

Current versions of Sync (1.2.73 and up) have at the very least reduced instances of this problem.