Introducer prevents "un-sharing" of folders??

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I’m a bit confused of the following behavior:

Let’s say I have 4 machines sharing many folders. 3 of them (S1, S2, S3) are “introducers” to each other and share for example 10 folders. The 4-th one (S4, non-introducer, and sees all others as non-intro.) is sharing only 5 folders (with all others).

Now, I want to stop sharing one of those 5 folders with the 4th device: I remove it from S4 device. Then on form S1 I stop sharing it with S4.

But, after short while, S4 receives invitation from S1 (and others, but thats expected), and S1 shows as it is sharing again. :confused:

Is it a side effect result of using introducers? If so, seems that to successfully “unshare a folder” i’d need to “unshare” it from S1 S2 S3 simultaneously?? which would be quite difficult given that devices are not in the same geographic location…

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Here in logs, the folders are “reshared” by S1 (vouched by S2) just after I set S1 not to share them with S4…

[S1] 22:33:58 INFO: Sharing folder FOLDER1 with S4 (vouched for by introducer S2)
[S1] 22:33:58 INFO: Sharing folder FOLDER2 with S4 (vouched for by introducer S2)
[S1] 22:33:58 INFO: Sharing folder FOLDER3 with S4 (vouched for by introducer S2)
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A device will add a share if an introducer tells it to. Having a bunch of introducers makes it tricky to unshare things, as they will be reshared when an introducer connects. I think the original design suggests having a single introducer in the middle, “controlling” other devices.

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I see, “single introducer” makes sense with current behavior.

In practice however, the “optimal for me” workflow was so far to have an “central node for each location” i.e.:

  • home 1 has 5 devices, one introducer
  • home 2 has 7 devices, one introducer
  • home 3 has 5 devices, one introducer
  • home 4 has 15 devices, one introducer and all introducers are introducers to each other, creating one fat network

this way it super-easy to add stuff to cluster, but as tuns out, definitely not easy to remove…

I resolved it by shutting down everything, turning on one-by-one , until everyone is separately configured, then power up all back

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Theoretically, nowadays, if you remove the folder on the same device where you initially added it, the other devices should also remove it.

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