Hi all - I’m currently tearing my hair our trying to stop Syncthing reinstating old deleted files and folders constantly.
Current setup is a ‘master’ Syncthing instance on a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Linux), with two Windows machines connected to it (but not each other). Every day (I think it is to do with when ONE of my Windows machines turns on and spins up Syncthing) a whole raft of old files and folders reappear. All machines have no file versioning, and ignore permissions turned on, and scan for changes turned off (scan interval is roughly 60s).
To be clear, I’ve taken the nuclear option to try and fix this:
- Uninstalled Syncthing off all devices, including the config files (in AppData on the Windows machines and in root on Linux).
- Deleted as many of the reappearing old files as possible.
- Deleted all the ‘.’ folders associated with Syncthing (.stfolder, .sync, .stversions) from all of my synced folders.
- Reinstalled Syncthing fresh, re-established synced folders from scratch.
I thought this had worked, but it has happened yet again this morning. I’m on the point of finding an alternative to Syncthing because it’s making work very very difficult! Any help/ideas would be appreciated, because I love the software otherwise.
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