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Configuring client settings

The client offers various settings for configuring the synchronization and the user interface behaviour. In this section we describe the meaning of the settings and how to use them.

Table of Content

  • Configuring DynDNS
  • Configuring conflict handling
  • Configuring warnings and notifications
  • Enabling Expert Mode
  • File Archive Configuration
  • Network Configuration
    • Configuring bandwidth limits
    • Configuring connection modes
    • Configuring delta-sync
    • Configuring multi-source downloads
    • Configuring network interfaces and ports
    • Configuring ZIP compression
    • Enabling on-demand connections
    • Tuning low-level network settings
    • Using relay transfers
    • Using UDT connections
  • Optimizing the client performances
  • Starting minimized
  • Configuring the Transfer Mode
  • Configuring the settings of the synchronization pause

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