I have three devices sharing a folder that is about 137GB. All three devices already had matching data carried over from using a different sync service. When I linked the third device I accidentally had it sync to the wrong folder and it started duplicating everything from the others. I cancelled this and deleted that folder, but syncthing keeps trying to find it.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled on all devices, I have tried rescanning, restarting several times. I can get the original two devices working but whenever I re-introduce the third I get about 5.8GB of failed items and constantly out of sync. This issue persists even though I know the data in the correct folder is all there, and on all three computers I have selected the same folder and path. For some reason it will not re-index itself and is constantly scanning for those missing 5.7 GB. Very frustrating.
EDIT: The global state on all three devices (the only ones syncing this folder) is 143 GB. The local state on all of them is 137GB. Why canāt it move on from the missing files? I just tried restarting all three at the same time and it did no improve.
It appeared as though it was going to work but now the problem has returned. I removed the folder on the offending computer and re-added it. Very briefly the other two computers had successful syncs.
The global state is indeed curious. However the amount of out-of-sync/syncing items is changing, right? It looks like it is still exchanging metadata and comparing state with the other devices - that can take a moment. Looking at the stats it isnāt down-/uploading much (thatās the mentioned metadata), so itās not retransmitting data.
If it stalls (i.e. no changes anymore in out-of-sync items), can you report back with a screenshot.
OK. It has returned to where itās been sitting for the last two days while Iāve been playing with this. Here is the result. It just will not let go of those files!
Thatās what happens when you remove and readd with a new id. Alternatively you can, on all devices, first stop Syncthing, then run it with the -reset-db option. That will reset the entire index, i.e. also for other folders.
I donāt know how to do that with Synctrayzor. However why canāt you just readd the folder with a new ID? You already removed and readded the folder on the third device, just do the same on the others changing the ID. No need to remove or relocate any actual data respectively files/directories.
So i removed the folder from all computers, then I recreated it using a new folder ID. I am still syncing but I believe the issue will persists. I am already showing āFailed Itemsā and the global/local state values are the same.
Then check those failed items on every device, i.e. whether they are there or not and if they are there, whether they are different in any way (e.g. different case).
