Constant sync conflicts

I’m using Synctrayzor to sync Obsidian notes together. It’s just text files.

Trayzor 1.1.29 Syncthing 1.28.1

I’m not a coder in any way so Syncthing is just a little bit out of my depth.

All I’ll do is create and delete test text files in Obisidan and it’s possible to get a sync error.

I’ll get workspace.json errors almost all the time. They will turn up pretty much immediately when just about anything changes. Sometimes they resolve themselves after a couple minutes but usually they don’t.

Sometimes the sync is really bad and it’ll take a really long time to update when I’ve deleted text files on the other machine. It might take 60 seconds.

Also, is there any way to change when you get notifications? Windows notifications is one of the dumbest things humanity has created and it will also update me every time a single letter gets synced. But I still need to know when syncs fail.

This is by design. You can tweak https://docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html#config-option-folder.fswatcherdelays if you want faster sync. Please keep in mind that deletions are delayed by six times the value (but no longer than 60 seconds).

If there’s no such setting inside SyncTrayzor, then you’re likely out of luck, especially since SyncTrayzor is basically abondonware now. Alternatively, Windows allows to tweak notification settings on a per application level, so you could, for example, disable sounds and banners while still keeping the notifications in the Action Centre.

I had no idea SyncTrayzor was ‘abandoned’! I thought it was the best version for me to use!

If I shouldn’t be using that one, which one should I use? Regular Syncthing? One advantage of trayzor was that it came up on startup, and it’s just in the tray - very unintrusive.

Is there anything else that replicates its benefits?

Furthermore, I thought that the bad syncing shouldn’t have been the case because I thought that it would be set to check for file changes by default, integrated with Windows API.

There is SyncthingTray, which is very actively maintained, but it’s not exactly the same thing as SyncTrayzor. If SyncTrayzor works for you, then you probably can just continue to use it, as in the end it still is just a wrapper for Syncthing proper, which runs in the background.

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Thanks a bunch.

I went through and tried ST, ST tray, and trayzor. It seems like only trayzor will allow me to use it in a user friendly way where it runs in the background and doesn’t open up a command terminal all the time. I guess I will go back to using that one because I tried ST and ST tray and the two programs running together at the same time are just too much for someone who wants a user friendly approach and doesn’t do compsci or coding.

Thanks.