hypercat Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 I would like to see the software changed so that temporary files are not stored in the synced folder. These temporary files cause other apps which are watching the synced folder(s) to process the temporary files. For example, I am trying to use Viivo to encrypt files before BTSync syncs them. This cannot be done because BTSync is creating temporary files with a .!sync extension which get processed by the Viivo app. Please create temporary files inside the Application Support folder or anywhere else besides the actual sync folder. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Please create temporary files inside the Application Support folder or anywhere else besides the actual sync folder.Yeah, that's not really all that practical! Consider this; let's say you have a partitioned disc, with two drives C & D. Drive D contains 500GB of files you wish to sync. Drive C (the system OS drive) only has 100GB of free space left. If temporary/incoming files are initially stored in the C drive instead of the D drive (the final destination), then 1) the C drive will run out of space, 2) Once each file has been received, it would then need to be "moved" from drive C to drive D - making overall sync time longer, and in the case of traditional HDDs, leading to big disk fragmentation! Whereas, under the present system, a received file is stored in its destination folder and simply renamed once complete - it's not "moved" from one location to another after it's been fully received. The bottom line is that Sync allows you to exclude certain files, file types, or folders from syncing. However, if any other 3rd party software you have "monitoring" or processing the contents of the folders you're also syncing doesn't have the same ability to ignore/exclude certain files, file types, or folders from their own respective monitoring processes, then you should suggest to those software vendors that they provide a way to do this in their software so that it can co-exist with Sync. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelmcg Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Hi, First of all I would like to say thanks a lot for this great app and all the hard work that has been put into it. With regards to the wishlist: Email notifications- when devices have been unavailable over a given period of time- folders haven't been synced by a set period of time- when target disk space is running low Set max size for a synchronised (read only / backups) folder Remove oldest archived items if disk space low or folder max size reached (not sure if this is already standard, cant find any info) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanha Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 It seems what is critically needed is the file transfer results tab in GUI.It should show which exact files are attempted to be transferred, preferably the progress bar, and the RESULT of transfer, and, if those results were not successful, what was the exact reason file transfer could not be completed.As it stands right now, we have a number of files that either won't update, or not even being attempted to be transferred or whatever else is the reason for the files not being updated on the client (r/o) nodes when they are modified on the master side (r/w) node.Looking at the logs, especially not even knowing the implications of the meaning of some error messages, of which there seems to be too many, make it practically impossible to find the reason why some files are not being transferred.Also, ALL failed transfers should probably be logged into a different log file, specifically dedicated to errors, where the most detailed information about the error is presented, and not just "error (R/O)" type of messages. Because they are pretty much meaningless, especially if you have write permissions to those files and the folders they are in.That is why in Unix/Linux there is the stdout and stderr files.Errors are not the standard output in terms of log files.The log files could be huge and contain all sorts of not very useful information from the standpoint of errors.That is why you need the debug.err.log or whatever name you find appropriate to name it, to clearly identify the transfer errors with detailed description of the reasons, such, for example, as "file xxx.xxx could not be saved - no write permissions" or "file update time stamp is different in more than xxx seconds" or "torrent is damaged" and so on.Because how can you fix something if you do not know the EXACT reasons for misbehavior?Some, if not most of log file messages simply do not make any sense. Either their exact meaning has to be described in some manual with sufficient detail and precision so the users could understand what they actually and specifically mean, or you can simply forget about the logging. Because the way it is right now, it is next to useless in terms of finding out the exact reason for some problem or transfer failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeropluszero Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Hi Bittorrent Sync team, thank you so much for this amazing soft I would love to have the ability to point a file that fail to sync between computers.From time to time i have trouble syncing through hamachi networks, but the app only give a size remaining to transfer, making it very difficult to point ...Double clicking that information could lead to the files maybe ?? Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gauss256 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 I'd like a badge on a synced folder (similar to Tortoise SVN) so that I know that the folder is synced. This would prevent accidentally modifying a folder that others depend on. Different badges for readonly versus full access would be good, and to indicate the sync state (syncing or done syncing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy22 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) A simple "Team Server" option for your cloud sync mirror server, like seen at the competitor AeroFS.Its kinda confusing to setup your own cloud mirror node, so that it acts as mirror/seed only. I guess u need to enable "Restore modified files to original version" for the server folders and use Read-Only keys on the server? The idea is that u never change files on the server itself, so if the server gets bugged or is lost/compromised, it should not sync server side changes to the "real" clients. I wish there would be a simple way to enforce those rules, since atm its kinda unclear and u have to setup things per folder. ThxAndy Edited February 26, 2014 by Andy22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asc3 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 We want 1.3.x : ) I can't stand anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 We want 1.3.x : ) I can't stand anymore lol! Patience... it's coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crest Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 lol! Patience... it's coming! Great, can't await this. Can we suppose that the Linux / FreeBSD versions will auto update or is this only for Windows possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanha Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 A Message from DevicesIt would be great to have a message from a device,either as an additional column in the Devices tab,or in a popup if you click on some device to show a longer text than it currently shows in Device column on the Devices tab.The reason for this is for the device to post some message to other devices if, for example it has some problems or it wants to provide the additional information beyond device name, such as posting the upcoming key change or when the devices is going to be on/off-line, to provide some url or invite people to join some chat, or anything else the device would like to inform others about.Right now the max length of the Device column is 98 characters.That is not sufficient as a general purpose message, and if you start adding an extra text to the Device name string, things may get a little confusing.At the very least, it would be desirable to increase the max length of the Device string to at least 256 chars or something like that. That way, if the string is too long to be seen as a device name, at least you could copy it to the clipboard and paste it to your notepad to see the full text without expanding the Device name column.The bottom line is:There may be a number of reasons for the device to display a more lengthy message to r/o devices. Basically, there is no compelling reason NOT to allow devices to communicate with each other and there IS a compelling reason for them to be able to do so. For example, right now I am seeing one node that is sitting dead for over a week on one of the shares. This simply does not make any sense and there is no way to help that guy or to find out the reason he is sitting there for days and weeks without actually downloading the share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rootadmin Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 There should be a upload notification when uploads are complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirio81 Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 bandwith limits also in the web linux gui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBMED Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Desktop Sync on Demand Mode---------------------------------------- Be able to have a mode like the mobile apps for the desktop installs where it lists the content but doesn't actually sync all the content unless the specified content is requested. Useful to be able to retrieve something when needed but not to have a full sync. Also extremely helpful for notebooks, especially the newer ones with limited storage Ex:Desktop A at Home (Multi-Terabyte Drives) <----> Desktop B at Work (Multi-Terabyte Drives) | | | V Business trip with Notebook (Nearly Full 100-500Gig SSD Drive) Yes you can sub-divide and have multiple shares etc, but there is always that "Oh crap, I need xyz file" that is invariably located in the wrong place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudsmaker Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I'd like to have some UX requests/suggestions. 1. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to organize these paths somehow? To group them and reorder.The more folders I'm adding the messier it gets and it's getting hard to get around now. 2. I think it'd more convenient to have in "Folders" tabs, as another column information about:- the connectivity with devices- status with the time of the last sync/bandwidth Basically, to merge "Devices" with the "Folders" tab. Everything in one place. 3. An ability to name each path. That would be kind of naming a sync connection. It'd make things clearer if we'd be able to name things like "BACKUP_MUSIC", "SYNC_DOCS" etc. That's it for now. what you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthayichen Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 Thanks for this app! A simple UI suggestion: In the Windows application, in devices -> folder status (which says 'synced on xxxx'), it will be nice to have an additional summary in brackets, eg. 5 minutes ago, 3 days ago, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthayichen Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 Also, please try to add an option to restrict transfers to devices on the same LAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 Also, please try to add an option to restrict transfers to devices on the same LAN. This is already possible - please see "Can I force Sync to do local network (LAN) syncing only and not sync via the Internet?" in the Unofficial FAQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthayichen Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 This is already possible - please see "Can I force Sync to do local network (LAN) syncing only and not sync via the Internet?" in the Unofficial FAQ Thank you. Making the options more obvious and noob-friendly would be another suggestion then. (And perhaps add global default to the main preferences tab instead of the clumsy, optional configuration file.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyleday Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I would like to reconfigure the location of the shareID, syncignore, syncarchive, etc from inside the selected sync folder to another location of my choosing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadgetster Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 I often love to work by a keyboard rather than mouse, and there should be considerable number of people as well. I want the BitTorrent sync client to allow us to move among tabs by [Ctrl]+[Tab] or [Ctrl]+[shift]+[Tab], as other Windows apps. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfaex Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) Hi, my first post here. Wish list:- choose if i want to remove a device from that folder.(if i have 10 devices syncing c:\logs, i want to choose the device named "pc234" will no longer sync)- choose if a deleted device should keep or not the content(When delete a device erase all content from that folder on that device only)- give a different secret key for each device(One folder on the "server" and 10 keys for 10 "clients") amazing software, congratulation. Edited March 17, 2014 by alfaex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GieltjE Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 - Restore modified files to orriginal version for arm/linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 GieltjE, Could you please elaborate? Files could be restored by copying file backup from hidden folder .SyncArchive. Do you mean something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asc3 Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Can you add button that switch between ready only and full access? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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