Cannot sync to a location outside of home folder on Linux

[gadget]

@andysh

@gadget

that you’ve got a custom Manjaro setup

I installed Manjaro using the official iso file, with no modifications. Then I installed some non-system software, including Syncthing.

It’s very curious where the /app/bin directory came from because /app isn’t a regular/standard path in Linux (of any distribution I’ve ever used).

Today I re-installed Syncthing and Syncthing Tray, and set it to auto-start as a systemd user service, as described in the official docs. That seems to have fixed the issue.

Thanks for the help anyway!

You’re welcome.

Would you mind sharing where the reinstalled Syncthing ended up? (Output from the command whereis syncthing would be interesting to see.)

[andysh]

@gadget

Would you mind sharing where the reinstalled Syncthing ended up?

Now it is located in /usr/bin/.

¯\(ツ)/¯

[rob_k.l.a]

I have the same problem and solved with simlinks

[andysh]

Ok, so I was a happy man for a day, but hey, happiness cannot last long. Now Synchthing Tray cannot connect to the Synchthing service and boils the CPU. The service works fine in the background, though.

Correction to my original question: the mentioned /workspace partition has NTFS file system (the system partition is btrfs), since I dual-boot Windows and Linux. Maybe that was the root cause.

Seems like I will have convert the /workspace to btrfs anyway, because Linux software does not handle it well due to difference in permissions models.

[andysh]

@rob_k.l.a

I have the same problem and solved with simlinks

How? It is explicitly stated in the docs that symlinks are not supported.

[rob_k.l.a]

I let it create the folder in ~ then pause all sync move the directory where I want and create the simlink in ~ and re enable sync

[tomasz86 (Tomasz Wilczyński)]

Symlinks are not supported when talking about subfolders. The root folder itself can be a symlink.