# Change (target) folder path

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/change-target-folder-path/14344
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 15, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/change-target-folder-path/14344 "2020-01-15T15:39:29Z")
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### Author: ![imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/imsodin/32/3317_2.png) [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/change-target-folder-path/14344/9 "2020-01-15T22:24:49Z")

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Quoting Holmes/Doyle:

> when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

> [@David.P](#):
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> Who is “we”, and what is “our device list”?

Either it’s the device to which the UI belongs, the device you are editing or other devices. It talks about adding additional devices with mutually shared folders → can’t be other devices. The setting is present on multiple editable devices → can’t be the single device the UI belongs to.

> [@David.P](#):
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> Is “this device” the local or the remote device?

Singular → not other devices. Available on all devices → not local device.

> [@David.P](#):
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> What does “automatically _share_ folders” mean, other than “create”?

Ok, here Holmes might not be applicable, as you might not be able to come up with any possibilities. The true one is: If the advertised device already exists locally, it doesn’t need creating (well can’t be), just sharing it.

That doesn’t mean it couldn’t be easier to eliminate the impossible (or simply understand what it means), but without either explaining your thought process and where it fails to come to a conclusion that you feel confident on or proposing better wording, there’s nothing to be done.

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