Syncthing for android is a mess. I need to redo a folder or two every couple weeks because of some unresolvable sync errors or ghost files…
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spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’ve been using Syncthing and it’s been almost flawless but was going to switch to Nextcloud for everything. Looks like I’ll be sticking with Syncthing for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for posting this.
brb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
When I was running a mesh topology I often had the same issue. Switching to a star topology fixed pretty much everything.
brb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yeah I’m running mesh too. I need to try that, thanks.
vas@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
That’s bizarre. Did you try clearing up the hidden folders
.stfolderand.stversionsand starting from scratch? I’m not doubting that you experience what you experience, I just never had it and I’m curious how you can even get to such a state. Using “syncthing fork” from F-Droid and Syncthing-v2.0.12 on desktop.brb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That is what I usually end up having to do. The worst problem I’ve had so far was one directory endlessly reappearing even after deleting it from all devices manually. I looked into it and found out it was because android syncthing can’t handle some characters in the directory names, but of course it doesn’t tell you this. Just renaming the directory duplicated the data with the old name, so I had to setup everything from scratch like you said.
Cyber@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I came from Nextcloud to syncthing, you’re in the right place.