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I am getting an error when I try to add a shared folder already on another machine also running btsync. My btsync instance on the ubuntu machine is installed using the official linux package. It seems to be running with the user btsync. The target folder, which already exists, is under my local user name. However, I tried to share the folder to a non-existent folder name and encountered the same error.

The error, as indicated in the title, is simply: "Don't have permissions to write to selected folder."

I am not sure how to resolve this problem. It seems as though the cause may be that the btsync instance is running on a user that does not have write access to the directory in question. I suppose the problem could be solved by opening up the permissions completely (777), but that seems like a singularly bad idea.

One other thing I tried was adding the btsync user to my local user's group, i.e. usermod -a -G <localuser> btsync. That didn't work though.

Any help here would be much appreciated! Ideas?

fraxture
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If your btsync is run by the user named btsync, you should actually add your folder's owner to btsync:

chown -R btsync folder_name

Or if you're using resilio you should change folder owner to relsync:

chown -R rslsync folder_name
Zanna
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einverne
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As BTSync team answers:

Sync Does Not Have Permission To Access This Folder - Sync Troubleshooting - Sync Forums

In the config file for btsync, remove the "directory_root" or "dir_whitelist" parameter from the config. This parameter specifies the location where Sync can create folders. You could also modify it to include the specific folder you want to sync.

Here is the default sync.conf file:

{
    "listening_port" : 55555,
    "storage_path" : "/mnt/sync/config",
    "vendor" : "docker",
    "display_new_version": false,

    "directory_root_policy" : "belowroot",
    "directory_root" : "/mnt/",

    "webui" :
    {
        "listen" : "0.0.0.0:8888",
        "allow_empty_password" : false,
        "dir_whitelist" : [ "/mnt/sync/folders", "/mnt/mounted_folders"]
    }
}

you can add custum folder into dir_whitelist

allenyllee
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