I’ve been using (and loving) syncthing for about 4 months now, but I’ve run into an issue that I can’t resolve. I have about 25 folders syncing and two of them are stuck in an endless Scanning / Out of Sync loop. The folder status shows Out of Sync and flashes Scanning for about half a second every second, ad infinitum. The two folders that are failing are doing so only on specific items, and any other files that are changed in the folders are continuing to sync.
Clicking on the items left to sync lists that item, with no downloading progress bar, just the “Sync” status on the left, and the file size on the right.
Within explorer on the failing side, there is a temp file “~syncthing~FILENAME.EXT.tmp”
Things I’ve tried:
-restarting both sides of the client
-deleting the temp file on failing/receiving side, restarting
-manually placing the file on the failing side
-deleting the folder listing on the both sides, which initiates a full rescan
Hmm, it seems unlikely that the file/s are changing. They were created about 3 weeks ago and haven’t been touched since. Some of them are just jpegs. On the sending side, which is behaving correctly, the folder status is “Up to Date”. On the receiving side, I’m getting that constant flicker of Out of Sync/Scanning.
Yes, the example file isn’t a jpeg, but there are several files affected by this issue, and some of them are.
ninja6o4’s process has fixed the syncing! I did a slight variation where I zipped the failing files and then deleted them, re-scanned, deleted the temp file on the receiver, and then unzipped on the sender side. Worked a charm, thanks!
Still not clear why the issue occurred or how to avoid in the future, but hopefully there isn’t a recurrence.
