# Data corruption

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/data-corruption/13818
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 28, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/data-corruption/13818 "2019-09-28T17:16:11Z")
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#### Post date: [September 29, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/data-corruption/13818/2 "2019-09-29T00:18:09Z")

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What does corruption mean in this case? If you read the API docs there is a way to look up detailed information about individual files, including the last device that modified it.

There is no mechanism in syncthing to prevent corruption as it’s not a filesystem and it cannot distinguish corruption from a user made change.

Different versions should not be related to this, but ideally you want them as close as possible to pick up bug fixes.

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