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Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by Reventlov »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #5

Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on. I used to use it on…

I would not qualify the web UI of "excellent" : understanding the relations between paired devices, remote devices, folders you want to sync, and so on is harder than what it should be.

Likewise, the android application is so bad the best way is to open the web UI on your phone to do stuff (and sometimes, it's the only way to achieve some goals).

There is definitely a lot of room for improvement for easier adoption, yet, this is one of the few sync app that work for me, even behind NAT, with closed ports, and so on.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by hparadiz »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #5

Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on. I used to use it on…

The thing with the .stfolder file is annoying as hell. I use it to sync the build output folder for my Android builds but sometimes I need to run a clean and it wipes out the folder. Syncthing's developers for whatever reason just can't seem to grasp that sometimes I could careless about a folder's history and just need my files synced.

My fix it to run `touch .stfolder` in the build directory which fixes it but seriously Syncthing? Just put in some reasonable defaults and call it a day.

Otherwise it's perfectly fine.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by deaddabe »

iszomer wrote: post #9

It's sufficient enough for my needs. I use Joplin with it as well as no-frills file syncing across my home network. Just a note on revision history: it's better to configure this feature on the notetaking app alone while disabling it on Syncthing. My only gripe is that this utility may soon become deprecated as Android continues to update their convoluted storage schemes.

Can you share a reference wrt evolving Android storage schemes?

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by vegai_ »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #5

Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on. I used to use it on…

>The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client.

https://www.mobiussync.com/

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by commoner »

bedros wrote: post #2

only if I can filter what to sync locally

Here's Syncthing's documentation on specifying files to ignore or include using the .stignore file:

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

This also works in the web and Android clients, which expose .stignore through the "Ignore Patterns" setting.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by ianbtaylor »

I recently started using this to sync a few folders full of some code and documents between three of my computers. So far, it works very nicely, to the point I don't think about which machine I sit down at, because I know it'll already have the stuff I'm working on, all ready to go, without any fussing around or needing to running `git pull` in a bunch of different folders to get caught up to where I left off. I like that there's no cloud dependency and no single point of failure.
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