Configuration: Folders synchronized in two Windows 7 compupters. One is Folder Master. Syncthing v0.11.7 (which just has updated to v.0.11.8).
In the master folder the “Bone morphometry” subfolder was renamed to or replaced with a subfolder “Bone morphometry” (with one space).
In the non-master computer puller started complaining repeatedly:
[HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:57 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:58 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:58 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil [HWL2C] 19:40:58 WARNING: Folder “Tomas-Documents” isn’t making progress - check logs for possible root cause. Pausing puller for 1m0s. [HWL2C] 19:41:25 INFO: Puller (folder “Tomas-Documents”, dir “ACES\Projekt X\Däggdjur\Bone morphometry”): delete: nil
and so on forever. (“nil” was in fact in angle brackets.) Restart of Syncthing did not solve the problem.
Probably Puller (in the non-master computer) tried to copy or delete a no longer existing folder from the master computer, never giving up. I suspect that this phenomenon occurs when the counterpart is a Master Folder.
I removed the folder manually in the target (non-master) computer, and the Puller complaints ceased.
Similar complaints have occurred with files that have been renamed or moved, that is, Puller never gives up attempts to copy something that has been deleted or moved.
The renamed or moved files or folders have been copied all right.
Saying “File no longer exists” (etc.) once should be enough.