Heyo,
I rebuilt an array on one of my machines recently and was presented with the “folder marker missing” error.
The message says to search on the forums for next steps.
When I did so, the first/highlighted google result was “the .stfolder is just a regular folder, so you can just make a new one and the error will go away.”
This is, of course, terrible advice, because immediately after doing so, syncthing deleted all of the data in the other server’s folder and now neither machine has a copy of my data.
I’m not blaming a user for giving bad advice here, but “search the forums” is clearly not an appropriate message to give to the user because this is exactly the kind of thing that will happen. Official documentation is crucial for this.
Also, ideally, for common cases where this could happen, a simple UI resolution such as (for me) “Click here to restore all data from OTHER machines to this one.”
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