Whenever I need to share files between two Windows computers in a LAN, I'll use this tool.
It sounds kind of ridiculous, but just goes to show how crappy/difficult the Windows native file sharing is.
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#12I had to stop using it after loads of conflict files piled up over the years in my notes folder. I'm trying to switch to WebDAV for notes. Considering Caddy+WebDAV[0] or Peergos[1] or SeaweedFS[2], but not Next/OwnCloud. Is still consider using Syncthing for other files types. [0] https://whhone.com/posts/webdav-syncthing/ [1] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3APeergos%2FPeergos%20webda... [2] https://github.com/seaw…
I've had to reset it multiple times due to the same sort of issue. There doesn't seem to be a good way to resolve conflicts; at least, none that reliably works.
You have to ensure there's continuity - at least something online and connected at all times, to ensure that the system can know and have distributed the latest version of the files.
I just have it running on my desktop, and at this point, the system's been running for nearly 6 years, and the file conflicts are rare. They only happen when I e.g. do edits on my laptop offline, then go home and do more edits on my desktop before letting my laptop sync.
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#13Syncthing is a wonderful open source project that I thoroughly enjoyed using when my mobile device was on Android. Everything I needed was synced, all the time. Great performance, too. And it was really easy to set up syncing of a particular folder with random people for various projects. I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS. I see that 5-6 years later the…
> I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS.
There is an app that wraps syncthing that is available on iOS but it's still quite gimped[0] due to how iOS does file management.
[0]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sync-mac-pc-and-ios-using-syncth...
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#14Syncthing is a wonderful open source project that I thoroughly enjoyed using when my mobile device was on Android. Everything I needed was synced, all the time. Great performance, too. And it was really easy to set up syncing of a particular folder with random people for various projects. I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS. I see that 5-6 years later the…
I switched back to android for syncthing, totally worth it. I am on a galaxy s24, the battery life is not great compared to my last iPhone, and the camera takes poor photos, but other than that everything is better.
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#15Syncthing is a wonderful open source project that I thoroughly enjoyed using when my mobile device was on Android. Everything I needed was synced, all the time. Great performance, too. And it was really easy to set up syncing of a particular folder with random people for various projects. I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS. I see that 5-6 years later the…
There's a 3rd-party commercial app that brings Syncthing to iOS [1]. It's essentially a paid app, but periodically they'll release TestFlight versions as betas.
[1]: https://mobiussync.com/ [2]: https://github.com/MobiusSync/MobiusSync/discussions/194
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#16Anecdotal data, but it feels like a majority of the nice software I look up on Github ends up being written in Go.
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#17Syncthing is a wonderful open source project that I thoroughly enjoyed using when my mobile device was on Android. Everything I needed was synced, all the time. Great performance, too. And it was really easy to set up syncing of a particular folder with random people for various projects. I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS. I see that 5-6 years later the…
On IOS there's Möbius Sync, which works perfectly with Syncthing.
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#18I found that it struggled with larger data sets. I have a directory that is 70TB and about 300,000+ files and unfortunately, it just can't handle that. Resilio (formerly BitTorrent Sync) handles it nicely and they just opened up to allow home users better access to it.
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#19Syncthing + Raspberry Pi + Wireguard + Gitea = There's no "cloud"! It is just someone else's computer.
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#20Anecdotal data, but it feels like a majority of the nice software I look up on Github ends up being written in Go.
Golang definitely inspires confidence. My employer also uses it. I like that it's defaults do a good job at mitigating supply chain risks.
https://go.dev/blog/supply-chain
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/supply-chain-securit...
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/06/supply-chain-securit...