ishel Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 (edited) I have just one folder shared across a laptop and two desktop machines. Two machines are running Windows 7 and I am therefore running BT Sync 2.1; but the third machine needs to keep running Windows XP for the time being (long story!) and so I have BT Sync 1.3 on that. All was running fine, the two Win 7 machines upgraded to 2.0 when it came out and all continued without incident. Yesterday I had to reformat and fully reinstall on one of the Win 7 machines. I 'fiddled' with BT Sync without fully understanding what I was doing but eventually managed to get the two Win 7 machines talking to each other and syncing fine. However, I now seem to have broken the link between both of those and the third Win XP machine. Ver 2.1 on the Win 7 machines seems to have a 'key' which is different from the 'secret' in the Ver 1.3 install on Win XP... and when I try to copy the secret / key between the two machines, each says the code from the other is invalid. Any help welcomed here, please Edited July 24, 2015 by ishel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 A "secret" and a "key" are essentially the same thing - the terminology was just changed between Sync 1.3 -> 1.4 Why can't you run Sync 1.4 on your XP machine? The last version of Sync 1.4 (1.4.111) provides the best compatibility with Sync 2.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishel Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Ah! Thank you so much for that hint! I have found the installer for 1.4.111 and will install it on Monday when I am back at the location where my XP machine is located. Hopefully this will help solve the problem. Once I have installed 1.4.111, what steps should I take to restore the link on the XP machine to the two running 2.1 on Win 7 machines? Do I simply copy the key from one of the Win 7 machines into the key field in the dialog of the 1.4 install? (That is where I was getting the error message in 1.3 though... it was telling me that they 'secret' I was copying from the 'key' in 2.1 wasn't valid... I was emailing the key to myself and then trying to copy/paste it into the 'secret' field in the dialog... or can't you copy and paste and you have to type it out character by character? Ideally I would just like to restore the relationship between the existing single folder and its contents / subfolders... without having to have all the contents come across the network afresh... but if I need to let that happen, it's not a big deal of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishel Posted July 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 I have installed 1.4.111 on the XP machine and sending a key by copy/paste from one of the Win7 machines; but still getting the error message "Please enter a valid key". The key is definitely the one generated on the Win7 machine. Any ideas will be much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med44 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 HI,Iv'e got the same pb with my Vista machine. I tried to copy "p=" or "i=" key part of link generated on my 2.0 Sync machines but it stays in "approval pending" state.I managed to create a working link in the other way: from my 1.4 app to the 2.0 sync machine, so pc see each other well, Sync apps are working well, but that's not the way i need to sync. I have a 2.0 sync server !! Thanks all for helping us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishel Posted August 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 @med44 - In the absence of any further ideas from the experts here, I followed your tip and did manage to create a working link from the 1.4 across to the 2.0 machines. I had to manually transfer the files to the 1.4 XP machine first. A bit fiddly but we got there... hopefully the devs might note that it doesn't seem to work the other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 @all, To share a folder from Sync 2 to Sync 1.4 you need to add a classic 1,4 folder on Sync 2 and share either via key or link. Links from 2.0 will not work on Sync 1.4, especially partly copied links (I mean "p=" or "i=" key part and alike) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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