Indexing Does Not Stop On Nas

[wongwy]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to sync a few folders in my office linux file server and a WD My Book Live NAS at home.

 

I have installed BTSync 1.2.82 in the file server successfully, all folders indexed (about 80 GB in total).

 

I also installed BTSync on the NAS successfully. However 2 of the folders will not stop indexing. I thought maybe it was a large file somewhere, but I have waited for 2 days already. Also, the syncing is not happening as well, I'm guessing because of the indexing problem. The rest of the shared folders are working.

 

I looked through the forum for answers and have done as what people suggested earlier.

 

The .sync folder is not in my shared folders.

I have also placed ~$* in my .SyncIgnore files to ignore temporary MS Office files (and restarted BTSync).

 

However I still cannot get it to stop indexing. If this is unavoidable for some reason, I can still accept it. But at least the syncing should happen.

 

Anyone have any ideas to solve this? Thanks.

Edited December 26, 2013 by wongwy

[Hvmhvm]

I solved it in my case by getting rid of single quotes in file names: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/25020-arm-version-1267-keeps-indexing/

[wongwy]

Thanks Hvmhvm. But I believe both my systems (both Linux) would be able to support the same data structures. If it exists in one, it must be supported in the other. Or am I wrong?

[Hvmhvm]

It is not the Linux that is the problem, but the sync engine. Just rename your files with quotes in them and you will see the indexing stop after it is done (unless some other special character causes the same problem in the sync indexing engine).

[wongwy]

Thanks Hvmhvm. I will look through my files to find the single quotes.

 

I had a look at the sync.log file in the .sync folder. I see these messages being repeated a lot (# being the data I masked):

 

[20131228 00:05:38.069] UPnP: Device error "http://192.168.0.###:###/upnphost/udhisapi.dll?content=uuid:875a31dd-5768-4dd5-923f-2e5b68201e14": (-2)

[20131228 00:05:39.026] UPnP: Device error "http://192.168.0.###:#####/nasdevice.xml": (-2)

[20131228 02:09:52.610] 175.###.###.#:#####: did not pick any blocks. blocking peer temporarily

[20131228 02:09:53.665] Blocked downloading file #####/########/#############/#########/###############.xlsx due Connection closed

[20131228 02:09:53.925] Blocked downloading file #####/########/#############/##########/#####/#######/####################.doc due Connection closed

[20131228 02:09:54.452] *** /shares/####/####/####/####/#####/####/####/#######################.xls: PIECE 0 FAILED HASH CHECK

 

 

Those file names do not have single quotes or any special characters, other than brackets. Anyone have any idea why these messages are appearing. Could it be the folder path being too long??