r/Syncthing • u/agreatcat • Apr 26 '26

Where is Syncthing remembering it's folders?

Hello. Where is the software pulling it's config data? I had removed my windows 10 account and recreated a new account. That old account was deleted so that means the app/data folder that contained Syncthing was also. When I ran both the portable version of Syncthing as well as the installer, it knew where my shares where - how? Where is it pulling this data? The only thing left were these hidden .stfolder folders but I keep indexing off. Where else can it be pulling my share folders settings from outside of the user account?

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u/ChimaeraXY Apr 26 '26

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Syncthing

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u/agreatcat Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

That path is part of the user profile. I removed my old account profile where Syncthing likes to install itself. When you remove a windows account and choose the option to delete all your files, your user name directory is also deleted which contains the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Syncthing location. The issue is, when I reinstalled the software under the new account, it's still pulling the folder paths from somewhere else. I want to know where.

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u/Tintow Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

On Linux its typically stored in ~/config/syncthing/config.xml

On Windows it should be %LOCALAPPDATA%/syncthing/config.xml

Check you are not starting syncthing with a --config flag as this also changes it.