@tomasz86 wrote:
Please forgive me if the question has already been answered, but I have searched here and there, and could not find any definite information.
For example, I have a folder of 110 GB and 160,000 files. I add it to Syncthing on a new device, but set .stignore to ignore everything except for top level files (i.e.
/*/). Once everything has been processed, the index folder on the new device takes around 400 MB, despite there being nothing synced but a list of empty folders.Is this normal? If yes, then can anything be done about it? It is necessary to include information about ignored files in the index?
I am asking because this has just caused a low end Android device run out of space, which was a surprise for me, as almost no files were actually physically synced there. Yet, the index folder took almost half of the 1 GB system partition, which in the end crashed the application (and made the whole system barely usable).
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