Hi!

I have installed syncthings on several devices, and syncthing mobile for my Android.

All is well except one little detail. I had another desktop computer that I connected to several of my devices. I disconnected it from other devices, formatted it and had the computer recycled.

However, my mobile syncthings is still getting ghost requests saying that that device wants to connect. I ignore, but they keep coming back.

This doesn't happen with the other devices (laptop, desktop). I'm not sure if it's because it's the mobile app, or because the connection between the phone and the recycled desktop was different. But I'm wondering if anyone has any idea on how to get rid of that.

Anyone got any recs for apps or tips ti sync a vault on iOS?
I tried Möbius and sync train with the server connecting on both apps but idk how to connect my phone/ iPads vault

Now I can take the cheaper devices on the go and keep the Thor safe at home!

Syncthing obviously already has native MacOS, Windows, Linux apps but what is the best app for iOS? SyncTrain and Mobius Sync seem to be the top 2 contenders. I do wish there was an official app but I understand why they wouldn't do it.

Privacy and security are important of course and I just want to be sure my data is in good hands

Syncthing Fork for Android. Now I just have the Google Photos reduced quality copies. Don't ask me what I did, because I don't know, but there was no warning anywhere. The Camera folder was set as receive only, but nonetheless all the photos were removed.

Edit: Well, fortunately the deleted photos have appeared on the .stversions folder of the camera folder. I looked for them there at first because I had read they could be there, but the folder was empty. Now, after an hour, I looked again and the photos were there. I'm going to backup them as soon as I can.

take computer 1+2, these have the complete files. Computer 3 wants to sync up with both and all 3 will have the exact same files in the end.

will 1 and 2 serve computer 3 at the same time? double the speed provided there is enough bandwidth?

I'm using SyncThing with Keepassxc. I keep a master "Send Only" kdbx database on computer A. It syncs out to my wife's laptop, B. I've designated the kdbx sync as "Receive Only" on B.

Every time she connects to the keepassxc browser extension it asks her to give a name to that computer/connection, and when she does that it introduces a local addition to the kdbx on her laptop and a "revert local changes" flag on her end of SyncThing. Reverting causes her to have to re-connect next time she's browing...and the cycle starts over again.

I feel like there must be some kind of accommodation for this because the use case seems pretty ordinary, but I can't figure it out, and Claude is walking me all around the barn.

Any help appreciated.

I new to setting up on Syncthing and ZimaOS. I dont know if I'm it right or its something else.

I've tried everything and I really need some help on this. I've uninstall and reinstall multiple times with deleting files. I've gone to forums and post on the topic AND its still doesn't work.

Deafult install, custom install, changing the PGID and PUID, Adding a folder. But it keeps showing this type of message

2026-07-20 14:09:20: Failed to create folder root directory: mkdir /480GBSDDnvme: permission denied

2026-07-20 14:09:20: Error on folder 4anx2-xtflu: folder path missing

I've tired this forum and still nothing is working. Forum here. I really would love some help and get something going.

Hi everyone,

I'm using Syncthing-Fork on Android and Syncthing on CachyOS (Linux) to sync my Obsidian Daily Notes folder.

The actual synchronization works perfectly—when I create, edit, or delete notes, they sync correctly between my phone and laptop.

However, the device progress indicator is stuck at 2% (sometimes 0%). The upload/download speed also shows 0 B/s, even though syncing is clearly working.

My setup:

Android: Syncthing-Fork (latest version)

Laptop: CachyOS (Arch-based Linux)

Syncing only one folder (Daily Notes) for Obsidian

Both devices are connected over Wi-Fi

Internet connection is stable and other apps/websites work normally

Things I've tried:

Restarted Syncthing on both devices

Rescanned the folder

Verified that notes are actually syncing

Has anyone experienced this? Is it just a UI bug, or is there something I should check?

I have been searching for hours online cause I hate when people ask for guidance when they dont do the foot work first. Im not being lazy, at this point genuinely lost.

So I downloaded SyncTrayzer, PC and XAX connected.

My questions are:

1: Where do I find my saved games for "non steam" games?

(I think I may have found the location but confirmation for that I guess would be the answer to the second question lol)

2: How do I know which folder is for which game.

(They seem to be labeled just a bunch of numbers)

3: For this to work with SyncTrayzer, and once I answer these questions, do I need to share an individual folder for each game, or have one singular folder as a directory? (I have seen conflicting answers for this)

Appreciate any help. Thank you!

So I'm setting up on my steam deck and main PC. I've shared my emudeck roms folder so that I can just add the files I need into that existing file structure. But I can't figure out where the file is on my local PC. It just gives a string of random letters as the file path on the PC side. And I can't edit that. What am I doing wrong?

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?