I have auto-accept unticked, nevertheless on that device the folder gets accepted with no other pop-up and placed in the default directory.
On the other hand I got a couple of dialog boxes to accept a folder that I created yesterday and that don’t exist any more. I’m confused. I checked the ID and got rid of the unwanted one.
What did I misinterpret regarding this feature? On the “sending” device auto-accept for the receiving device is unticked, and I expected the receiving device to pop up with a dialog, so that I can manually set the directory.
You’re looking at the wrong device. If you want to disable auto accept on a device you need to disable it on that device, not on another “sending” device.
Thanks for your quick reply.
I tried to find the toggle on the receiving device, but couldn’t find one. Some research explained to me that the toggle is only accessible on the sending device, the one the folder to be shared is sitting in and where I set up the sharing.
Where on the receiving would I find a setting for autoaccept? I couldn’t find it.
No that’s not correct. In syncthing all devices are equal and every device is self-governed: If you want to change something that changes what a particular device does, the configuration on that device must be changed. In other words, a syncthing instance isn’t “remote-controlled” by another syncthing instance. Note that every syncthing instance has its own view of the world.
A syncthing instance has the concept of a (single) local and (multiple) remote devices. Local device is the machine syncthing is running on. Remote devices are all devices this instance is configured to talk to. A remote device maps to a local device on some other syncthing instance and vice versa.
Auto-accept is a per remote device setting: On the machine that wants to accept the folders, select the remote device that maps to your “sending” machine and untick auto-accept there (under the Sharing tab of the Edit Device modal).