I've been using SyncthingTray for keeping syncthing's GUI footprint to a minimum, it seems to work quite nicely: https://pulse-forum.ind.ie/t/syncthingtray-for-windows/586
Re:Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync
by zamabe on Thursday October 30, 2014 @12:59PM
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I use NSSM to run it as a service. It is an extra step, but it's easy and I never have to touch the service again since pulse/syncthing can update itself (restarts automatically) :)
Re:Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync
by joshstrange on Thursday October 30, 2014 @11:45AM
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Hmm, I wonder if it will suffer from the same issues as BTSync if I try to sync a large number of folders... I will be running on Ubuntu but that does suck that you can't run it as a windows server.
1) Difficult to set up as a service on Windows, so you don't have a command window in your task bar all the time. I want this thing to be fire and forget, not in my face all the time and setting it up on all my PC's, my wife's PC's and my kids PC's, I don't want a lot of extra steps and 3rd party solutions just to get SyncThing to be a service.
2) I had some CPU hogging issues on my Ubuntu boxes that forced me to disable it.
I did not know they changed their name to Pulse. That explains why I'm getting email from a Pulse mailing list suddenly.