Syncing With Mybooklive Some Questions

[Kedeb Malsi]

I gave up on WD My Cloud iOS app since it stopped syncing folders. Glad to have found btsync for Linux systems. Managed to get everything set up and started syncing folders from MyBookLive to my iPad. Have a couple of issues which I hope to get some help with. I don't know Linux at all, so it took me a whole day to set up the btsync with my NAS and MacBook and iPad - thanks to the many detailed instructions provided by members here.

 

I have two problems:

 

1) How do I sort the order of the folders after they have synced to my iPad? It seems that they are ordered in the sequence they were added to the iOS app. I have 80 folders synced over but they are not in alphabetical order so searching for a folder is a bit of a hassle. If I need to edit some config file, please do let me have the steps to it.

 

2) Some folders in MyBookLive will not open to the subfolders when I click on them in the web gui on my MacBook. There are 3 folders that won't show the subfolders. I checked them and they were of different sizes. Two have many subfolders while one has only 5 subfolders, so it can't be due to the number of subfolders. I've tried to reboot the NAS, re-launch the web gui on my MacBook but I still can't open up the subfolders in those 3 folders. I don't want to sync the whole folder over; I just want to sync some of the subfolders.

 

There's one more thing, more like a feature request, unless it actually could already be set through the config file or something. It would be good if the left panel of Sync app in the iPad could be closed on demand so that whatever I'm reading on the right side of the Sync app could have the maximum space on the screen. Not sure if this can be done now.

 

Thank you for reading.

 

KB

[Kedeb Malsi]

I discovered something common about the three folders: they all have an "&" in their folder name. For example, "F&B", "Textile & Fashion", "Tour & Travel".

 

I think this is the problem. Folders with "&" in their names will not show their subfolders. I tried other folders that have "&" in their names and subfolders, the same thing happens: the subfolders will not show. I have no problems with folders with long names or with many subfolders as long as the main folder does not have "&" in its name. Once a folder has "&' in its name, the Add Folder action will not open up the subfolders for selection.

 

I don't know Linux so I don't know why it is the case but I would consider this a bug. I can't afford to change the folder name to get around this problem because it would upset my backup regime using Chronosync. It would re-copy the entire folder and subfolder and files as backup. I hope the btsync developers have a look at this.

 

I still haven't found a solution to the folder sort issue. Hope someone has a solution.

 

Thanks!

[RomanZ]

@Kedeb Malsi

1) They are not sorted now. Thanks for proposal - we'll consider it for future releases.

2) I confirm issue with ampersand character - it looks like a bug, we'll take care of it.

[Kedeb Malsi]

Thanks RomanZ. Hope the ampersand gets fixed soon. I need some of those folders in my iPad.

 

When there's a new release of the btsync, do I just copy over the binary file to my NAS and run the chmod and /./ commands after ssh-ing into the NAS? Or do I need to remove the existing copy of the btsync first? Will the removal also remove the record of what I've already synced?

 

Sorry for the barrage of questions. Very grateful for the application. 

 

Thanks again for the reply!
KB