I’ve got Syncthing on a desktop at home, and Syncthing on a Windows Surface i work on daily. It is not uncommon that a folder change will occur to one device or the other while they are not in communication. I run both with SyncTrayzor.
The problem:
When changes to a shared folder occur ‘offline’ and the two devices re-gain communication, I’m am somewhat regularly getting situations where the syncing stalls out.
Currently (and I’ve seen this previously) I’m stalled out on a specific folder for days with the last message being:
“… is delta index compatible, but seems out of sync with reality”
The only solution I’ve had for this previously has been removing and re-adding the folder, or deleting my /data directory. Neither of which I like doing, as I might as well manually sync in that case.
Is there a setting I should look at, or some easier way to resolve this? Really hoping this is user error, but I’m struggling to get a stable setup that lasts more than a couple months.
Any help appreciated, thanks for this great program!
Removing and readding a folder will cause that message. It’s otherwise harmless - it just means that the two devices need to exchange full index information because something unexpected changed, instead of just continuing where they were. It should also be self healing.
Maybe that message being that last is just a red herring, when something else is going on.
Either-way, I’m stuck waiting for a Sync of 35MiB of data for almost 8 hours. Is there a recommended piece of debugging to turn on for troubleshooting stalled transfers?
That’s normal. Don’t turn on debugging. If it’s not syncing, it’s for a reason that will be visible without debugging. Look first on the receiving side.