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I've tried to replace Dropbox with BT Sync few weeks ago. It didn't work up to my expectations.

I write code on several computers and I use Dropbox to keep the files in sync so that I am able to quickly resume working when switching computers. I've never had any kind of sync problems with Dropbox.

I tried doing the same with BT Sync. The biggest problem I had was that sometimes it didn't sync all files. Say I had a directory with 10 files and 3 computers in the BT Sync "network". It was not unusual that 8 files got synced between all computers but 2 of the files would never get synced to one of the computers. Then at a later time, randomly, it would resume sync-ing. After having this problem 3 or 4 times I went back to using Dropbox and never looked back.



Does btsync have file rollback like Dropbox does? That's saved my ass so many times.


As far as I know there is no way to get something back after deleting it using only BT Sync.


They released support for file recovery a few days ago, along with their android app (http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/07/17/now-in-beta-bittorrent...). Instructions to recover files and set the recovery history time here: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/16410-bittorrent-sync-faq/.




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