markymark77 Posted September 8, 2014 Report Share Posted September 8, 2014 Hi all, I've seen this written about many times in the forums but haven't yet found a solution. I'm unable to sync files between computers that have special characters in the names, eg 'Á' 'ë' etc. I'm synching across a mac, an windows box and a Raspberry Pi. Mac & Windows are happy. The Pi is not... The log is constantly spitting out errors such as 'SyncFileEntry: failed to create folder /home/pi/Store/Media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Tiësto' I've seen two suggested fixes, one if to confirm UTF-8 encoding on all machines, which I've done. Another was to allow the Pi to recreate the folder (I'd prepopulated it on the Mac) Neither fix has made any difference. A third suggestion was to remove all special characters from the file names but the library is huge so not really an option. Bit Torrent Sync runs as 'btsync' and owns the folder it's trying to populate. All versions are up to date. Btsync has been at 93% CPU for a week trying to work through the folder, I suspect this is due to the file name issues. Is there any way to sync files with special characters to a linux box? Am I missing something basic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markymark77 Posted September 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 Ok, so I've given up on being able to sync files that include special characters. Music from European bands that are cheeky enough to not use standard UK/US characters in the band or track name are now excluded from sync... Perhaps the community can assist me with another sync issue? Magically reappearing files and folders?Again, I've seen this mentioned on the forums but the suggested fixes don't apply to my setup. Deleting files on one machine ends up in them eventually reappearing back in the same folder. All machines are on 1.4.75. File/folder permissions are all correct, eg, owned by user running btsync. BitTorrent Sync seems like a great idea but I can't see how it could be a viable replacement for something like Dropbox if it's not very good at actually synchronising files? I'd have thought that cross platform sync would be a basic requirement..... If a prerequisite to using it is to have Jedi master levels of command line knowledge then is it going to gain much traction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnetic_dud Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 Can be possible that's just that the Pi filesystem is not in utf8?I had the same problem with debian... then I realized I wasn't using utf8... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markymark77 Posted September 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2014 It's fat32 on an external USB disk, Pi locale is set to UTF, doesn't seem any reason for this to be such a pain... But as I said, I've given up on sync for my music Library..... Now it's the turn of my android phone which has decided to ignore the 'Auto-Sync' setting and fill up the SD card with files! Joy..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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