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Pc version of chronosync7/11/2023 Select your bucket, in this case ChronoSync030420, which we created earlier, and click Select. Now that we are connected to our B2 account, click on Choose to select which Bucket to synchronize to. Then click on Large upload block size, set it to be 100 MiB, and click Save If everything is tested correctly, then click Next to adjust the Advanced parameters.Ĭlick on Custom request timeout and change it to be 120 seconds. Then click Test to verify everything was entered correctly. ![]() Then fill out your profile name, choose Backblaze B2 for connection type, and enter your Key ID and Application Key. ![]() Under Destination Target click on the drop-down menu next to Connect To: and select “Create connection”. Now we need to configure the connection to B2. In this example, we are going to choose the default “Left-right”.Įnter the Application Key into ChronoSync Next, choose your synchronization preferences. Select the folder to synchronize to Backblaze B2. Click on Choose and browse to the desired folder, which in this case will be the Documents folder for the current user. Under Source Target, we are going to choose a local folder. Next, select the source folder, Synchronization options, and your destination. In the ChronoSync app, click on Create New Synchronization Task. ![]() Setup and Configure ChronoSync to use B2 on Mac Your new KeyID and ApplicationKey will be shown only once, so make sure you copy it to a secure location. Select if the key has access to all buckets, or only to the one you created, by selecting it from the drop-down list. To create a new Application Key, click on App Keys under the B2 Cloud Storage menu and select “Add a New Application Key”.Įnter the name of the key. Remember the name of the Bucket must be globally unique, not just unique within your account. ChronoSync030420) and click “Create a Bucket”. Under the “B2 Cloud Storage Menu”, click “Buckets” and then select “Create a Bucket”. To create a new Bucket, login to your Backblaze account. If you don’t have one already you can follow these steps to create them. ChronoSync supports existing Buckets and Application Keys. Now, you’ll need to choose which B2 Bucket and Application Key to use with ChronoSync. Once the download is finished, run the installer program to complete the installation. You can download ChronoSync from their webpage here: Hoping this solution can be of help to all of you experimenting problems with the UCS problem.ChronoSync is a third-party sync tool that runs on macOS and supports B2 Cloud Storage. I am DB syncing only my work documents, that uses only 6GB of space. it uses double space I need on my computer's hard disk. This solution has 2 advantages: (1) my files are where I want and (2) the UCS problem have disappeared. ![]() I have been using CS for a month now without any problem. Every 10 minutes, CS takes a few seconds to do the job. Instead of working on the files from the DB folder, I work on the original version located where I want on my computer. I use ChronoSync (CS) to sync my computer's data folders with my DB's folder. I started to use DB again last week after thinking of this workaround. and a test proved that the problem was probably elsewhere. Since I am French, accents are everywhere. mostly arguing that the problem was related to the accents in my files's name. By reading this forum, it seems that I am not alone.ĭB's support was unable to help me even after multiple requests and escalating. Anyway, it was getting enoying to manage. Versions also became a problem, not realizing which file was the oldest. DB was messing my file names and obliged me to rename them once in a while. Since I have been having this «Unicode conflict suffixe» (UCS) problem last year, I stopped using Dropbox (DB) completely.
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