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I have not. I basically stopped checking out file syncing solutions as Aero has been working well so far.

I'll have a look at BTsync now though. The feature set seems similar but btsync seems to have better mobile apps (Aero only has an Android app and no iPhone one).

I'm the other way around - have used BTSync for a while, not sure if I should make the move to AeroFS. The use case for BTSync seems to be closer to Dropbox - you give someone a secret, and that shares the folder with them. AeroFS seems to assume trusted environment among all participants, from what I can tell.

Yes I'm not sure that I need or want the shared secret system. I like that BT sync has mobile support but Aero is really good on the platforms I use it the most on -- Win/Mac/Linux.

Also, it seems BT sync still requires a centrally controlled tracker/relay for discovering peers similar to Aero and also isn't open source so not sure I want to bother moving all my systems and setting up the the shared secret keys just for mobile support yet.

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