rreyes1979 Posted December 5, 2013 Report Share Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Hi all. I created an encrypted 100GB file with Truecrypt and tried to sync it with my brother's computer using Bittorrent Sync. Although we left if for a whole day, the folder was not able to sync. The connection between both computers was stablished and we could see upload activity on my computer. But it seemed as if it was uploading for about 20s at a time and then stopped. Sync kept trying to sync, but it was never able to do it. Because of that, I split the file in 8GB files and tried again. We've been synchronizing for a couple of hours and we see that 700MB were already transfered. This tells me that Sync seems to have a problem with big files. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? I think the problem should be easily reproduceable using Truecrypt. Please let me know if you need any other information. Edited December 5, 2013 by rreyes1979 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dms2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Report Share Posted December 5, 2013 Is true crypt using the file? If so, btsync will wait for it to be released before continuing the upload Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rreyes1979 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 It was already released by Truecrypt and I was able to see BTSync trying to send it to my brother's computer, but it looked as if kept failing and restarting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Did the Date Modified on the file change when truecrypt released the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rreyes1979 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Not sure, but I am sure the moment it was released, BTSync started "indexing" the folder and the count went from 0 files to 1. After that, it started trying to send the data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 And what is making you think it's failing and restarting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nils Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Enable debugging and have a look at your log files on both sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rreyes1979 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Nils I wish I still had the problem (mmmm... maybe not... haahaha), but since I had it I split the file and now things seem to be working just fine. Nevertheless, I can try to replicate it to help you debug it. Are you interested?Harold I suspect it was failing because:On the Devices tab, the entry for my brother's computer said that the status was "[up-arrow] 100GB" and never actually decreased the number during the 24h we were trying to sync the file. On the Transfers tab, the entry for the folder uploading to my brother's computer showed that the upload speed was going from 0 to 80kB/s every 20-30 seconds. After that ammount of time, it usually stopped (0kB/s) and went up again. That kept repeating for the whole 24h.Once we split the file, the Devices tab number started decreasing and the Transfers tab shows a "constant upload speed" of 60-80kB/s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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