Guentha Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 I use sync to keep 2 media servers sync'd. for the most part it works great but my problem comes in when I move content around. Content is automatically added to an unsorted folder and sync handles this just fine. I then manually cleanup and organize the content into the correct folders and sync delete the file from the other servers unsorted folder and re-downloads it into the new folder even though I am syncing the parent folder. here is a simplified folder structure. I sync folder 1 in its entirety with all sub folders. my server adds files to folder 2 and they get synced. I move the file from folder 2 to folder 3 and it is deleted and completely re-downloaded. can this be stopped? I am used to Dropbox and it doesn't have this problem. the file simply moves however I am more than willing to put up with this annoyance over paying Dropbox for 10TB of storage. this wouldn't be a problem except I have 20gb files on occasion and its a pain that I have to sync them twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 @Guentha Which version of Sync do you use? Also, do your have Archives enabled? Also, what is the average size of files you sync? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guentha Posted June 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 2.3.7(451) I have keep "deleted files in archive" turned off average size of file is around 800MB. server downloads about 30 files a week and I organize on Fridays both sites have 200mb/200mb fiber if that makes any difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 @Guentha Archives are vital to avoid re-downloading: sometimes it happens that OS itself first sends "delete this file" events, and later "hey, here is a new file" events, so Sync sends them to all other peers in separate blocks. If archives are enabled, Sync will pull files from archive instead of re-downloading them. Could you please try to turn archives on, and set Power Option "sync_trash_ttl" to "1"? This will force to keep archives only for 1 day and at the same time should return you files movements. Let me know if it helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guentha Posted June 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 thanks for the quick response. I have set these options and will see if it fixes my problem. I often rename the files while organizing, will this affect the archive/re-download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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