Iminent Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) The only major drawback to this app is that I cannot find a way to have a master storage that can receive all of my files but will not delete when removed from another device. Drives me bananas. Here is why... I have 4 devices. My main daily driver computer My homes server 1 Tablet 1 Phone Main server has the "home" or "hub" folder. It has Read/Write because if i create a file on any device and put it in the syncing folder. I want it to distribute throughout my cloud. The problem is if i move a song file for instance to another folder on say my tablet. It will delete all copies on all devices. When all I wanted to do was move it to the right folder on my phone. then go to my tablet and place it its folder then each computer and so forth. If it gets removed from any device it is non recoverably deleted. i would like either 1 ) the ability to right click and choose "delete file locally" or "delete file on all devices" OR 2 ) the ability to have one master storage location that can receive all files that have been put on the BTSync cloud and have Read only on itself so nothing can be pulled from it once added. Take everything and give nothing I suppose. Currently the only way i can do this is to completely shut down BTSync on each device before i can alter any file in any way so that it doesnt trash or remove all other copies on my cloud. Maybe i am the only one with this concern. but it is hands down what is keeping me from trusting BTSync with my most sensitive files. I sure hope this makes sense. EDIT: I suppose the point of this is... Is this intended? Before i put it in requests. Edited February 16, 2015 by Iminent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinghorsey Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 You are definitely not the only one with this concern.I feel that it isn't up to the task of backing up or syncing files from multiple devices to a central storage server or host. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iminent Posted February 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Right. The key feature of Dropbox, Drive or any other cloud storage is the ability to "host" files on their server and take it to any device i like. But.. the lack of the ability to autosync the actual files on my computer/portable device kinda blows and is a crucial ability of BTSync. would be super nice to have both options. Edited February 16, 2015 by Iminent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 @IminentIn Sync 1.4 you can try to share read-only folders to devices consuming data. So, the deletion won't actually do anything. Alternatively, you can check the Sync 2.0 and on-demand folders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iminent Posted February 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 I am sorry. I do not think I understand. If what you are saying is that I need to make another synced folder that is read only and sort of backwards connect it to the same folder as my original synced folder with read/write on it. Essentially making it a read/write in one direction and read only in another direction. Well. I'm afraid you just melted my brain and I might have to find something that allows me to be dumber than this. Kidding... sorta. While I can see this sort of working. It is a complex workaround to what I would assume should/would be a pretty basic function of a cloud service competing with Drive & Dropbox type services. @RomanZ: I did try to check out the lync you gave in your post but it takes me to the Sync 2.0 download & installation page. Further i also did a forum search for "on-demand folders" and as you can see in the link below. It found nothing. http://imgur.com/0XsN3ET Am I understanding your workaround for 1.4 correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted February 17, 2015 Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 @IminentLet me elaborate. Your main concern is that file deletion on your mobile device deletes the file on all other peers. I advise to not to share read-write key to your mobile device, but share a read-only key. If you do so, the changes you do on mobile device won't propagate to other peers. So you can simply delete a file you previously synced - and it will stay on other peers. This way is going to work for mobile platforms only. Another option us upgrading your Sync to 2.0. It has a kind of new synchronization mode "on-demand" which is also known as "selective" sync. It allows to exactly do what you asked for - "Delete file only on local device" or "Delete file everywhere". This option is going to work for both mobile and desktop platforms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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