[Solved] Btsync Node Suddenly Thinks It Is A New Node

[pdxrlk]

My main workstation ("A") has btsync 2.0 installed for many moons now. There are multiple other nodes including a Raspberry Pi which has all of my sync'd folders and they are working fine.

 

btsync on machine A seems to have lost its marbles. Today I brought up the btsync window on A and instead of the usual list of directories, I received the initial "Link Devices" windows (which is used initially to tie the btsync instance to a device already running Sync 2.0).

 

I'm stumped - how do I debug this? Is my only recourse to re-link this device? That's a bit of a pain as I have directories spread out over multiple disks and Sync 2.0 doesn't handle that as smoothly as 1.4 did and there are about 20 synced directories.

[Helen]

pdxrlk,

 

Looks like settings got lost/corrupted. Did Sync crash right before you saw that? Was anything changed in the setup right before it happened? 

It's on Windows? Can you send Sync storage (%Appdata%\ BitTorrent Sync) to us? Make sure you have debug logging enabled 

 

Yes, not it's to re-link the devices. Unless you backed up the settings from storage. 

[pdxrlk]

Thanks for the reply, yes the machine blue-screened several times before I noticed this.

 

I ended up re-linking the device. In order to correctly link  up the directories across multiple disks I first disconnected each folder (Deleting the placeholder files in the process). I then connected and specified the correct directories, and sync'd. All is good now.

[Helen]

pdxrlk,

 

So this is definitely damaged settings. Great that it's working now.  Mark this section as solved.