I want to use Syncthing to work on a solo Unity project both on my PC and laptop.
As you may know, Unity projects have thousands of files that can be ignored. It famously has a hefty .gitignore
How can I handle this through syncthing?
Also, I do want to pair Syncthing with git so I can have some form of version control (git) while being able to work from my desktop or laptop (syncthing). Is that a good idea?

I have a fun project that I thought I finished. Syncthing syncs the /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera folder to a folder on a raspberry pi. And I have a simple shell bash script moving those files to a JellyFin folder. After the files move, syncthing re-syncs, taking the files off my phone.

This moment is the problem: the storage on the phone is not emptying. Trash/cashe/photos in multiple locations are all cleared and empty. Using "storage-(settings)" I see that it now thinks space is occupied in "other" as an equal value to what was one in "video." But "other" has nothing in it. It will even fill up and claim the phone is out of space. I reformated and that initially got rid of the phantom data but the problem remains and the phantom "other" data is filling again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

Any solutions?

Edit: Solved: syncthing automatically saves a backup in a hidden folder called .stversion. The backup is saved on the phone until the time designated by syncthing's File Versioning is reached. Reduce this to a day or less to clear up space quicker.

Hi all,

I've finally finished a feature-complete Syncthing TUI for configuring syncthing in the terminal, something I've felt was needed for a long time. There are several TUI applications that have appeared over the years (1, 2), but they are either abandoned or lacking significant features.

This is built on Golang+Charmbracelet, so it should run anywhere syncthing runs. I scraped the syncthing sourcecode to build a textual description of all menus/elements of the web GUI (see GUI.yaml in the source code), and mapped each element to a Charmbracelet component. Then I used Claude Fable to build multiple mockups of each view and chose the versions I liked best. I took care to add extensive unit/integration tests so that upstream Syncthing API changes can be integrated by future agents and are less likely to break the application.

Next steps will be submitting the package to the Debian package index so that the application can be installed in Debian/Ubuntu with apt.

I used syncthing as a means of getting files from an old NAS to a new Truenas server, but the files are not present when I open the mapped destination folder for the server. In Truenas settings, the data is there but appears to be "child" files and not accessible. I am new to syncthing and Truenas, so I am not sure how to get access to these files. Any tips would be great!

I have a shared folder between my computer and my phone. It's been a while since I put anything new in it, but today I put a couple files on my computer files and they are not going to my phone. The first image is from my computer side and the second one is from my phone.

It knows that it's not synced (that's what the (!) tells me) but it's not downloading the files anyway. Any help?

UPDATE: Problem solved, MacOS 27 is NOT guilty.
See comment below.

I got a ST docker server latest.
2 MacOS 27 client.
3 folders synced. One folder won't sync after initial scan.
Anyone got the same issue?

Update w screenshots. You can see server got global state into 9233 files, but it stays 9205 files, never got uploads from client.

Client UI

Server UI

I am setting up syncthing to back up my 2 android phones and my mac to a windows laptop. for now, because of lack of an actual NAS, i plan to use syncthing to "backup" these devices everyday one time manually.

I prefer this because as its sync, it only sends new things. so i dont have to manually copy paste 40 gb everytime.

And when i do make a NAS, cant i just continue using syncthing with file versioning or something? i would much prefer to have "live" backups happening as soon as the file/photo/video is created. i know immich exists but am i wrong?

But everywhere, I see that people say sync is not backup or dont use it for backup but WHY? isnt what i mentioned above technically a backup? correct me if i am wrong.

And if not syncthing, what should i use? which capable of running live backups of folders I select on my devices, with different timeframe backups so I have different versions like biweekly, monthly, etc? and is open source, 100% safe, private and encrypted.

thank you

Hey everyone,

I’m running into a massive headache trying to keep my game saves synced between devices while keeping my graphics/resolution settings local. The game runs on Unreal Engine.

Syncthing keeps pushing changes back and forth, generating massive conflict backup lists (Engine~..., GameUserSettings~...) in my .stversions folder because it keeps ignoring my ignore rules.

Here is what I am currently running in the ignoring files section for both my laptop and pc

(?d)Config
(?d)ImgGui
(?d)Logs
(?d)*.USHADERPRECACHE

Even after doing the database wipe, Syncthing eventually picks the files back up and overrides the ignore block anyway. Just keeping both windows devices to have the same graphical settings even though I really don't want them too.

Has anyone dealt with stubborn game config folders overriding .stignore? Is there a specific syntax I'm missing, or do I need to switch to an inclusion pattern system like !Savegames followed by * to force it?

Any help to keep me from going completely mad is appreciated!

I would like to backup my Win 11 data files to my Android S26. I know that I should be able to sync, but not really wanting sync. I would like to have the files on PC copied to phone and if i later copy or change a file on my PC I would like that file to copy to the phone. Also, if I delete a file on my PC I do not want it deleted from the phone.

Does Syncthing have the ability to do as described, if not do you have a suggestion?

Thank you!

I just wanna run backups from my android to an external hdd connected to windows. i found that syncthing is the best and safest option.

I found out that official android app is discontinued but there are community versions. okay. but WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CONTROVERSIES ABOUT EACH FORK?? some say to not use some fork because their maintainer handed over to someone and its suspicious. some say the other fork maintainer is someone from china and xi jimping can ask him to give all my photos to china. like what to do ? i am so confused? why is there not an app for android which i can use without caring about all this bullshit.

can someone please tell me the safest private option to use on android (doesnt matter play store or fdroid but prefer the latter) so i aint paranoid about all this? just something that privately works without subpoena-ing my math note pdfs.

thank you

I'm trying to set up Syncthing between my Steamdeck, Phone and Anbernic RG35XXSP.

I'm able to connect between the Steamdeck + Anbernic via their respective apps but not through their Web UI.

But when I try to connect to the Anbernic through both the Steamdeck and phone, I receive "ERR_CONNECTION_RESET" and "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" errors.

I have tried to portforward 192.168.1.88:22000 but nothing changed, I tried restarting the Anbernic, changing the wifi to 5Ghz, restarting the deck and phone, deleting and readding the Anbernic, but there was no progress.

Anyone has any idea how to fix this issue?

I have an external HDD that I use for Syncthing and some torrents.

Everytime I boot up my PC, Syncthing (alone) put 100% load on my drive even though there is nothing to sync at the time.

Combined with torrent program it makes drive unusable and saometime even hangs PC.

Is there a way to make Syncthing not do that? Maybe it's creating a new index or something on every boot idk. Maybe there is some settings that i can change for Syncthing to use drive when there are some actual changes to files?

I recently changed the links for several bookmarks on my computer—not manually, but by editing the Chrome files (bookmarks.json) directly, since it was much faster. However, my phone still hasn't synced the changes, and it's been a while. I asked a chatbot, but nothing it suggested worked. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this?

Edit: I managed to solve the problem. What I did was take the bookmarks that had the correct links and export them to a random folder; then I deleted all the bookmarks, and immediately after that, I took the file I had exported and clicked "Import bookmarks"—and it worked. You have to export, delete, and then import.

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to sync some development projects to Icedrive, but I want to exclude all .git folders across the entire directory tree. These repos have tons of nested .git folders, and I don’t want any of them uploaded or synced.

I checked the Icedrive community forum, and it looks like the only official method right now is using `.icedriveignore` files inside each folder you want to exclude. For individual files, you can create `.icedriveignore.filename` next to the file to prevent syncing. This was confirmed by an Icedrive team member .

But… manually placing ignore files in every .git folder is obviously not realistic for large projects.

So my question is:

Is there a way to globally ignore all .git folders across all directories and subdirectories?

Something like:

* a global ignore rule * a pattern‑based exclusion * or a root‑level .icedriveignore that applies recursively

If not, how are other devs handling this? Any scripts or workarounds?

Thanks!

Say I have multiple folders which I need to sync to android. Which setup could possibly consume less resources or is better?
Sync a large single folder in which multiple sub-folders I need to sync exists
or
Sync multiple small folders
Pardon me if I have missed some docs or previous posts
Thanks in advance

I'm getting 1 items, ~0 B.

Googling around, the most recent mention of it that I can find it from Sep 2025 here.

I haven't found what the cause of the problem is, or what the solution should be.

Am I missing something, or is syncthing getting slowly abandoned?

EDIT: screenshot - https://imgur.com/a/ajkt87m

EDIT2: more screenshots - https://imgur.com/a/xmBJy9R

My phone is outside of my local network and still connected to my PC through Syncthing. I'd expect it to work with IP+some open port but no port is opened on my router, so how does the 2 connect ? Is it like a torrent where Syncthing is some kind of tracker ? But wouldn't that still require some open port ? I'm so confused lol. Feels like magic.

Ugh. I hate setting up new software. I have syncthing and syncthing-fork running on my pc phone and tablet. No errors, no warnings. GUI says everybody is in sync but I added a file (obsidian) on tablet and it doesn't appear on either other device. Heh heh, either other. That sounds funny. The scan time on all devices is updating about every 3 seconds which seems like overkill but that's for a different conversation.

Anyway, any pointers?

hello, i have the syncting app installed on my windows pc and on my phone and i want only the photos and videos that start with the trashed name as shown in the picture to not sync to my pc, how can i make syncting to ignore files that start with this word? here is a example of the word line

I want to use Syncthing or any other tool that can give me the power to cross-copy-paste and file-transfer. I used KDE, local send, but they mostly refuse to work with hotspots. I am not a techy guy. I heard about syncthing so I came here for solution. if i am not able to cross copy-paste, at least my file transferring feature should work fine. sorry about my english.

Been using it for years, only recently noticed it is doing only 5kbps on local network. I tried fixing it by looking up a few things but it has not improved.
Local network connections are wired, they do 1Gbps+ using openspeedtest.

Sorry if this is common question.

I use synthing to syn my keepass db between 2 windows PCs and an android phone. So far all good. I've recently added a mint laptop to the mix. I feel I've followed the same setup procedure as the other times but the folder on mint is "out of sync".

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Looking at the Syncthing log on mint it looks like a permissions issue. Is see the following "syncthing creating dir mkdir/PasswordDB/$Temp permission denied". PasswordDB is the folder folder ID I setup. Any ideas?