External Drive Instability

Support Android
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Having a Syncthing folder destination on an external drive in Android can be a lot of work.

  1. In base conditions, most Android devices only really support write permissions for exFat/FAT32. NTFS has read permissions but not write permissions. This results in common file corruption for things such as car dashboards whenever the car is turned off while synching.

  2. The common file corruption makes “local changes” common.

  3. It also makes scanning take longer since the system needs to reverify stuff.