Deleted files continue to be recreated

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Hi all, I have this configuration 1 win desktop, 1 win laptop and 1 linux desktop. I’m syncing 320 gb of data with ~90000 files and directories. The win desktop is attached to a server and I’m syncing file from this server. The win laptop and linux desktop are not always on, generally I work at office with the win dektop and I want file synced to the other two deices if I have to work from home.

The problem is that when I delete or move some files and folders on win desktop and later I turn on the sync on the other two devices everything seams to go well but when some days later I check the win desktop I continue to see this files and folder that should be deleted or moved.

So now is very difficult to trust the way syncthing work. The question is: in order to syncthing to work well, is it required that all the devices should be all on at the same time?

Thanks

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Not generally, no. But if you have three devices, a file is deleted on A and then later modified on B and then C comes online, the modify will win over the delete.

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This is ok and is how I understand syncthing works.

I move or delete files or folders from A and I don’t modify those files or folders on B and C just simply let them sync with A. Days later on A I still find this files or folders that I deleted.

This doesn’t happen all the time and since I have lot’s of files it’s difficult to trac the problem exactly.

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Well it must stay on some device at the point you delete it for it to come back like that, and it’s likely that the files get touched/modified in this period of time.

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Since A’s files are on a windows server. Could be this a windows server problem?

I mean I delete file from A on a windows server and the windows server do some index or something like this so the files come back later.

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Potentially, also we’ve seen weirdness with samba mounts on Windows server that caused simillar issues.

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It could also be some malware touching the files in some way?

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I don’t think since the file are on server

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This aspect of syncthing is the most frustrating thing to me as well. The deleted files show up back or I get conflicts in a single user environment.

For instance I have 2 sync nodes. One is my workstation and the other is basically a clone slave (meaning that I do not work on it at all). I work on my files on my workstation only and I still get conflicts or duplicates.

I think that this is an issue with Syncthing not catching up fast enough. If you modify a file multiple times in shot amounts, yopu might get conflicts or duplicates.

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