Different kind of ignore

Thanks for a great program. I am just about to finally implement it in an office (after 2years!). Now my question.

Situation: There is a folder on the server called /Staff/ and inside that are folders for each of the staff members. I want to sync them to their home computers. But …

Problem: I don’t want 10 different folders synced if I can avoid it.

Example solution: The office server holds all 10 subfolders of /Staff/ and the server’s syncthing directs it to sync all of /Staff/. On each remote computer there is a folder /Staff/MyName/. The ignore pattern is in a particular remote computers’ /Staff/ folder – such that the particular remote computer only connects with /Staff/MyName/ and ignores all the other /Staff/ folders.

Conclusion: I’m guessing that’s not possible but I wanted to reach out and ask.

Thanks, and I look forward to reporting on my finished Syncthing network.

John in Oregon

It sounds like you want

!MyName
*

(The manual)

Bare in mind, that the staff has to trust each other not to change the settings on their home computer to also get the data of the others ;).

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Thanks. I had read the manual a couple of times but somehow failed to see the ignore functions works. After your comments I reread that section and now I understand. Thanks, and thanks wweich for the reminder – fortunately in this case we don’t care if staff see each other’s folders.

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