Ignored files in Failed Items

[jfacemyer]

My ignores generally work fine - however, I’ve just noticed that on 2 Mac laptops (using the same ignore rules) aren’t ignoring some files, but are saying “Permission Denied” as the reason.

|.DocumentRevisions-V100|permission denied|
|.Spotlight-V100|operation not permitted|
|.TemporaryItems|permission denied|
|.Trashes|permission denied|

In my ignores:

(?d).Trashes
(?d).Spotlight*
.*
.Spotlight-V100/

These rules SHOULD catch those files, correct? Regardless of whether they are readable?

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

It should. That works for me. Not sure why it doesn’t for you…

[jfacemyer]

Any recommendation for debugging? I’ve tried re-scanning, re-starting, playing around with the ignore rules…

[AudriusButkevicius]

Permission denied doing what tho? The error message is usually longer.

Is there a better message in the log?

[jfacemyer]

Here are the only relevant entries with the text of the error msgs or the folder names in question:

14:44:41 INFO: Scanner (folder vianney, file ".TemporaryItems"): scan: open [path redacted]/.TemporaryItems: permission denied
14:44:43 INFO: Scanner (folder vianney, file ".Trashes"): scan: open [path redacted]/.Trashes: permission denied
14:44:46 INFO: Scanner (folder vianney, file ".Spotlight-V100"): scan: open [path redacted]/.Spotlight-V100: operation not permitted
14:44:46 INFO: Scanner (folder vianney, file ".DocumentRevisions-V100"): scan: open [path redacted]/.DocumentRevisions-V100: permission denied

Is there a way to see a list of files that are actually being ignored currently?

[imsodin (Simon)]

The error message is actually a recently introduced (cosmetic) bug: The file is effectively ignored, the error is just reported before ignores are checked. If you can file an issue on github about this, that would be good. Never mind, I am in a bit of a hurry (Christmas holiday impending), I’ll do it myself Scan errors about ignored files displayed in web UI · Issue #5397 · syncthing/syncthing · GitHub

[jfacemyer]

@imsodin, thank you for identifying this, and filing the bug report. I would have been happy to do it myself, however

I knew it was something new(ish), as I hadn’t seen it before. It’s good to know that my ignores aren’t being ignored, however!