[Solved] Btsync Cannot Handle Files With Special Characters In Filename

[juh]

Hello,

 

as I like the idea behind Bittorrent Sync I tried it out to sync a medium sized working directory on my desktop to my notebook.

 

I discovered an issue that makes btsync unusable in non-ASCII-land. It cannot handle files with special characters in the filename. I discovered this because btsync does not sync'ed all files in the directory. (There is another thread in this forum about uncomplete syncing, and there I found a hint to filenames)

 

I see the "rejecting until file info is unpdated" message with files which has special characters like äöü in their names.

 

But btsync does not only silently skip these files, some of them are sync'ed but the program stops to sync other files.

 

Only when I rename some of these files (who are rejected until file info is updated) on the original client, btsync restarts to sync some more files to stop again when it chokes on a file with an umlaut in its name.

 

As people outside ASCII-land often uses special characters in their filenames, I would be happy if you could add support for these files in btsync.

[juh]

After looking closer into the problem I discovered something strange. These files were duplicates. I found two files with the same name in the same directory with different timestamps. After deleting one of the files and renaming the other, btsync starts to sync again.

 

Finally the sync of my working directory was complete I could verify that I can sync files with special characters in their names.

 

I have an idea how I got these duplicates, but this is not related to btsync.

 

So just regard my posting as noise. ;-)

[potentcocktail]

I'm still having trouble. I have several files (all of which have "special characters" in their names) which will never sync from my computer to my phone. I'm running Debian wheezy on my laptop, with BitTorrent Sync version 1.4.93.  My Android phone is running BitTorrent Sync version 1.4.56.0.

 

Examples of the filenames are:

 

1138. Rabbit In The Moon Remixes • Volume 2.html

1152. Naïve Art.html

1183. In The Møde.html

1239. Hyæna.html

1544. 1992—2002 [Disc 1].html

1545. 1992—2002 [Disc 2].html

154. Medúlla.html

1625. Clivillés & Cole's Greatest Remixes, Volume 1.html

1643. Doctor Death's Volume III- Les Péchés de l'amant.html

178. Bête Noire.html

1891. π- Music for the Motion Picture.html

1917. Word • Flesh • Stone.html

347. Enjoy The Silence · 04 [single].html

374. Die Kleinen und Die Bösen.html

547. Tragedy ▷For You◁ [single].html

548. Tragedy ▷For You◁ [single] [CD2].html

550. Tyranny ►For You◄.html

601. t [cd·a].html

602. t [cd·b].html

630. Lunático.html

703. ¡Hello Friends!- Jack Dangers Plays With The Records Of Tino Corp..html

735. Naïve - Hell To Go.html

739. Naïve - The Days of Swine & Roses [single].html

802. Yes–I'm Limited Vol. II.html

839. Counterfeit² [Promo].html

 

By the way, I don't see any related errors in ~/.btsync/sync.log

Edited November 12, 2014 by potentcocktail

[GreatMarko]

I'm still having trouble. I have several files (all of which have "special characters" in their names) which will never sync from my computer to my phone. I'm running Debian wheezy on my laptop, with BitTorrent Sync version 1.4.93....

Well, that's your problem - this issue was addressed in 1.4.99 - so you'll need to update from 1.4.93. The latest version at time of writing is 1.4.103

[potentcocktail]

Okay, thank you very much! I will do so. Sorry for wasting your time!