Hello-
I’ve got 3 (soon to be 4) windows machines syncing around 4TB in 500k files, all running v2. I want to add a macbook pro also, and was wondering if 1.3 is recommended here or the 2.0.3+1 RC? Or wait for 2 to be fully out.
I have done mixed mac/win in the past, but it’s been a while. I was planning on having the mac drive that is syncing NTFS with Tuxura so that it won’t allow illegal win characters in file names.
Any insights appriciated!
Base Syncthing’s latest release is v2.0.12, for Windows, Mac, Linux and a few others (Syncthing | Downloads and scroll down past syncthing-macos).
I’m running a small Syncthing cluster that includes a Mac. I’ve had zero issues running the most recent 2.x release on it. Recommended.
Turn off Wake On LAN in the OS if you’re in the habit of putting your Mac to sleep. That worked the same under 1.x. I suggest Ignore Permissions and not to sync or send Ownership or Extended Attributes, on all Folders that are shared with a Mac Device.
This is a bit misleading.
It refers to the “base” release, not the turnkey MacOS release which simplifies installation, provides a frugal UI, and supports automatic update.
The maintainer of the official MacOS distribution (syncthing-macos) has not updated the MacOS distribution to version 2.x. It remains at 1.30 (edited from initial post which read 1.3). He’s cited personal reasons and concerns about the readiness of the 2.x release. He’s said he might do it sometime in 2026.
Incomplete perhaps, but not misleading.
The base Syncthing works great and includes the web UI. I don’t know any reason for me to run any other version.
Just for the record, it’s v1.30, which was released in July 2025. Syncthing v1.3 also exists, but it’s much older, released in the year 2019 
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Corrected. Thank you!
Thanks!
How much data and number of files are you sharing? What I read was some concerns with v2 on macos with large shared foloders or a lot of attached devices. I don’t know what counts as a lot of devices either, but I’m guessing 5 isn’t that many compared to some users.
Four Devices. About 11 GB of total data in my environment. Other than time to get sync’d, I’m not expecting any differences between 4 TB and 11 GB for you.
Great, thanks for all this. I got it mostly going….
Where do I set ignore permissions and not to sync or send ownership or extended attributes?
Will that help with issues where mac files have characters that are illegal in win? I’m having something interesting happen where once syncing with the mac, some files that started on macs and had illegal characters are somehow reverting on the synced windows drive.
IE a file had an astrix in the name that came from a mac. When I copied it to win, it got renamed automatically and all 3 windows machines synced. Now that the mac is in the sync pool, the name is reverting to having the * on the synced mac, and having a weird character on win (a dot). Now the file won’t sync on the other windows machines
Thanks
Edit the Folder and click on the Advanced tab to reveal Ignore Permissions and the two Ownership and Extended Attributes settings.
I don’t name files on a Mac in a way that makes them unwelcome on Windows, if I’m going to sync that file. I’d suggest you rename the file on the Mac.