How to sync 2 folders with the same path on both computer

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Good morning,

new to syncthing, we investigate the tool to help a colleague having exactly same folder at home and at the office, for example for both Desktop and Document folder.

As far as I understand the tool and the UI, this is not possible as we need to create a dedicated folder.

How to sync /home/me/Desktop folder on both machines ?

Sorry if I missed the dedicated section of the documentation and thanks a lot for the tool and support.

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Welcome here @mathieubossaert !

Ummm…. This is exactly what Syncthing does. Please read Getting Started — Syncthing documentation and experiment a bit using a test directory. If things does not work out for you, please come back with specific questions. :slight_smile:

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Thanks a lot Martin,

so I really missed something. I’ll be back with my progression :wink:

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Everything is fine, just a misunderstanding between my colleague and I :frowning:

Sorry for your time and thanks a lot.

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I use robocopy and its counterpart in other OSes for local transfer. X-Plore for android. Robocopy for backup. Rsync also is possible. Cloud alt:foldersync.

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This topic is not about local copy. Please stay on topic. :slight_smile:

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Hm, syncthing takes any folder. As long as its not looping, I misread it. But theres no problem with existing folder using GUI. I’m trying to use one folder as Martchus suggests, but technically storage/emulated/0/DCIM

/Android/media are possible tho .stfolder always disappear periodically. As long as its not immutable folders like Android/data

Windows /WindowsApps

Its fine, I would say.

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Edit 1:

I get OP question now. You’re gonna make a loop in syncthing. Its not made for that. Use robocopy for that. Tho looping the sync directory sounds dangerous.

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Wait no both Documents and Desktop are under C\Users\computer_username(User)\

It’s not looping. Could you copy paste your directories here? Obfuscation with leetspeak is fine.

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C:\Users\User\

Documents to Documents

Desktop to Desktop

Are fine.

It’s not windows immutable folders.

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This was solved. No need to add confusion.

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