Extremly slow after new installation

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Hi, I’m using Syncthing since quite some years and I’m absolutely happy with this piece of software. I moved my fileserver to new hardware and rather copying over the existing setup I decided to install Syncthing from scratch and also moved to v2.0 in this step. One of my folders is a 4.5 TB media library with one Syncthing instance running on the same system. My problem is, that already the scanning process on the “server” side takes ages (> 1 day, only minutes in the old setup). Once this is done, Syncthing is of the opinion, that >70% of the files are out of sync and then starts the sync process, which I never was able to finalize due to the extremly long time this lasts.

I can confirm that both machines I’m syncing have the identical set of files, also copying files from the server to the other machine works as expected.

Any idea, how I can identify and solve my problem?

Thanks in advance!

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I think we will need way more information about your setup. At the moment, you haven’t even mentioned which operating system the device runs :sweat_smile:. Basically, I would suggest to include as much information as possible, e.g. the OS, specific Syncthing versions (both the current one and the one before the hardware change), etc. Screenshots from the Web GUI are always welcome too.

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The first scan after new install is always long because it needs to hash all data.

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Hi, I’m new here too so want to follow along this thread.

I’ve just installed it on 2 local Ubuntu servers, the discovery part all went fine, but 10 hrs later it does not seem to have synced much at all. It has a 10Gb local lan, so there is no bandwidth limitation.

Anyway, I wont confuse things from the OP, look forward to hearing about their setup and what the cause might be.

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I would suggest that you create a new support topic if you need help with your issue, as it sounds like a completely different problem than the one described here :wink:. For the record, if no data has been transferred for ~10 hours or so, and this is a completely new setup with the two devices actually connected to one another, then from my experience the culprit is likely that the folder hasn’t been properly shared between them.

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