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Bittorrent sync remove folder download#

Selective Sync: Just put placeholders, and I will download any specific files that I want.

Full-Sync: All new folders will sync automatically to this computer (suitable for desktops with large hard drives).

Should the new folder automatically sync to all other Macs? What if it’s too big? Is that what I really want?īTS allows me to set a default for each machine, to say what it will do when a new folder is added on another machine. New folders which are added to BitTorrent Sync cause a quandary. Simple as that, and I never need to Google the same app twice or try to remember what its website was, or hope that the website still exists, or fill out some dumb web form before I can download an app again. If I want to download an app, just double-click. With Selective Sync, I can have it on my MacBook for a “cost” of only 12 MB.

Bittorrent sync remove folder archive#

I maintain an archive of every app, and every version that I have downloaded. You can even remove them from your current computer and they will remain on other devices via a context menu in the Finder to “Remove From This Computer” or “Remove from All Sync’d Computers. You can add files and they will be sync’d to the other computers. You can re-organize files in a selective sync folder and have them reorganize in all of the other folders, whether fully or selectively sync’d. However, you can see all of the files that are in the selectively sync’d folder, and if you need one, just double-click it and it will sync to your computer and then be opened. For example, a video file would be “.btsv”. Each file is represented by an empty “placeholder” file, which ends with some sort of “bts” suffix. The difference is that you can easily look down the main BTS window and see which folders are disconnected.īut if you choose Selective Sync, what happens is so much cooler. You can disconnect a sync folder from a computer, in which case it is just like Dropbox’s selective sync. In Dropbox, Selective Sync means “if I tell you not to sync a folder, then remove it from this computer.” There’s no indication that there’s a folder missing or what might be in it.īTS has a much, much better take on selective sync. Here’s Where It Gets Extra Cool: Selective Sync. I have another folder called /usr/local/install/ where I save important updates like the 10.11.4 combo installer. I sync my ~/Desktop/ so I never have to wonder what computer I was on when I saved some file to the desktop temporarily to deal with later.

Bittorrent sync remove folder install#

If I download a file to ~/Downloads/ it syncs to all of them, because chances are good that I will want to install whatever I downloaded on all of them.

I normally have 3 Macs on my home LAN (iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook).

(Yes, I know Dropbox has a feature called LAN sync but it does not seem to always work very well in my experience.) Of course, network speeds depend on a number of variables, but it makes sense, right? Rather than having to go iMac ⇄ Dropbox ⇄ MacBook, it can just go iMac ⇄ MacBook. How fast? Over 16 Times Faster Than The Cloud according to their tests. both are on your home or work LAN) then transfers are fast. That folder can sync even if they are not on the same network, but if they are (i.e. Imagine you have a folder that you want to sync between your iMac and your MacBook. For example, if you want to sync something via Dropbox, you have to put it in your Dropbox folder, which has to be named “Dropbox”.īTS can sync any folder, as long as you can make changes to that folder. Most sync services require that you put sync’d folders in a certain place and put all files to be sync’d in them. If you just want basic syncing, that’s free.

You can see more on the Pricing page, just be sure to click on “Personal”, as it defaults to showing you “Business” options, which start at at $40/year.

Bittorrent sync remove folder upgrade#

If you decided that you do want those two features, there’s a $40 one-time fee (well, there will presumably be an upgrade to an eventual version 3, but you can keep using version 2 if you like.). The good news is that there’s a demo so you don’t have to commit before you try. Automatically add folders across all your devices.Let’s get some logistics out of the way, BTS can be used for $0, but there are two really good features:

Bittorrent sync remove folder series#

Today I want to tell you about the first of what I suspect will eventually be a series of posts about “How I Use BTS” over the coming months. JQuery BitTorrent Sync is licensed under the MIT License.BitTorrent Sync (or “BTS” for short) is a newer player in the space of personal file syncing compared to Dropbox or Google Drive, but it has some power and flexibility that I have not found anywhere else.