No More Unregistered Use Of Resilio Sync (Newest Update)

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As of Resilio Sync’s newest update, free users are required to register with an email address and name to use the service that connects your LAN devices…

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I was wondering why my devices weren’t syncing, so I opened up Resilio Sync’s Web UI and this crap showed up…

→ I used uBlock’s zapper to remove the pop-up, and I can do everything (like add or remove folders) but it still won’t sync, so cheeky circumvention unfortunately won’t work. :sweat_smile:

I could use an email alias and fake name, but I don’t want to. But at the same time, this is exactly what email aliases and fake names are for — companies asking you for things they don’t actually need, but want to have so they (and whomever they sell your data to) can identify you.

It wasn’t an open source service, so it was bound to do some crap like this at some point.

Then again, this means going back to using only Syncthing for constant syncs, while knowing that Syncthing hates small files, and will (for me) pretend that some files are un-syncable.

Note: Tested this just last month and at least twice per year for about 4–6 years now. Did find some discussions about it, and from what I remember, they can’t do anything about it.

Time to check for alternatives again to avoid Syncthing’s issues with my tiny files. If I remember correctly, it’s the tiny file issue that made me start using Resilio even from my Windows days a few years back. Still not fixed (possibly unfixable, I guess).

I’ll first check if a solution for this years-long Syncthing issue has been made available. If none are, then it’s back to perusing alternativeto.net. If nothing better exists that syncs between Linux and Android, then an alias it is. :person_shrugging:

If anyone has run into this issue and found a fix, please let me know. Wouldn’t mind only using one app for syncing.

PS#1: This is about constant and automatic P2P syncing of entire folders on multiple devices, not manual file-sharing.

PS#2: On the bright side, the pro features are all free now.

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Could you explain this one!

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With random small files, not all, Syncthing would simply choose not to sync them. So, what happens is one device is fully up-to-date and the other shows “syncing” indefinitely and “X out-of-date files”.

While searching the web, mostly the Syncthing forum (years ago), I found other users with similar issues, and one with the exact same issue. They didn’t have filenames that were causing issues, both devices and Syncthing versions were fully updated, and even if they deleted and restarted the sync, it would just reoccur with this same files.

It usually happens with text-based files, but has happened with images too that have tiny file sizes. The last time I tested it (last month) was with images.

Will just test it again now since Resilio isn’t doing anything anyway.

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For whatever reason, the issue seemed to have resolved itself after about somewhere between 30 minutes to 2 hours.

Tried it on a folder Syncthing usually points to, got the error that 17 files were out of sync, and just left it for a while. Again, small files (totalled about 3 MB), so not a large file size issue.

Later, I will test the other folders I usually use with Resilio.
:crossed_fingers:

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I remember having similar issues. But they usually disappear after a full scan in the sender device. Either manual or automatic.

Edit: my issues are caused by small files being deleted from a folder.

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Well, everything is all good here now. :partying_face:

I was trying to figure out what has changed in the last month or so for me, then I remembered that many of my files, particularly media files, have been getting renamed by a script. I’m guessing the script is what actually solved the errors. :person_shrugging:

The script: Bash Script: Auto-Rename Long Filenames

It has a few parameters for filenames, so one of them, or a combination, is probably what has solved the issue for me.

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