sirio81 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Hi, consider a windows client in a office.It's sharing a folder in read only (ro) with other pc(s).Call this pc "master".This pc stops working for any reason.I want to "convert" one of the other pc to master role.What should I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 @sirio81As I understand the Master is the only PC having RW key, the rest has RO keys only. If Master's HDD is dead (or inaccessible by some reason) - no way you can make a new master without changing keys as it is impossible to calculate RW key from RO key. So you'll have to make a new master, make a new key and distribute its RO counterpart to tother peers. If Master's HDD is accessible - you need to grab whole storage folder. The location of storage folder differs for different OS:Windows - "%appdata%\BitTorrent Sync"Linux - ".sync" subfolder next to btsync binary (or maybe configured in config file if btsync is started with --config parameter)Mac - /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/BitTorrent Sync. After grabbing the content of storage folder put it to a new machine to appropriate place (instead of new empty storage folder) and run Sync. It will say "Destinantion not found" for all the folders that actually do not exist on your new computer - but still you'll be able to extract and copy key. Note, that cross-platform copy of storage folder is not recommended. If old Master was Mac, you can run old storage folder only on Mac computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirio81 Posted January 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Thank you very much for the answer. Correct me if I'm worng:in case I have a copy of the rw key, I could simply remove the ro share on one of the pc and restore on it the rw key? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 If you already have the full access key and a copy of the files from the folder, yes you should be able to restore a "master" from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirio81 Posted January 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 I'll make a test as soon as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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