Deleted camera roll photos are synced as empty folders

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

This typically gets reported about photos on Android:

Deletions not propagated successfully

I have a problem with deletions, which are often not propagated successfully. This seems to be particularly true of photos, which never propagate a deletion. When a file is deleted on one device, the file is initially deleted from other synced devices, but then reappears moments later as a zero length file. This file is then propagated back to the original device. Once this happens, these 0 length files are impossible to delete without removing the sync folder concerned from all devices, and re…

Files and directories get deleted and then added

I have a directory that is shared between several (Linux) computers and two Android devices. It has about 6000 files, 3000 directories, and 7.4 GB of size. For many files, I see a pattern of them being deleting and then, shortly after, added back again. This only happens when one (or both) of the Androids have syncthing running. Never otherwise. So I thinnk the culprits are the Androids (one running 4.4.1 and the other 4.1.1). For instance, this happened to a file called “A generalized, likelih…

I’ve never heard it reproduced without involving Android.