Yes, that is what I meant, thank you.
Should I also set “ignore permissions” or “introducer” or “auto accept” also?
I looked into Seafile and while it’s promising it’s too centralized for my current set up.
So it looks like Syncthing is what I’ll try again, once I get done cleaning up these versions of these files on my external hdd.
I have to ask though, is it a good idea to sync the folders empty, and then add the files in? Or should I only do sync once I’ve copied versions of the files off the external hdd to both computers, that way the initial sync will be the one with the bulk of the file structure etc?
Lastly, once I start this initial sync, how long should it take? Should I avoid changing any files in either of those folders until it’s done doing it’s initial sync? (because these folders are basically all my work folders, that means that if the initial sync takes a long time, days or even a week or more, then that is a MASSIVE hit to my ability to do my work and be productive. I means basically spending that entire time with the computers syncing up and me having to do all my work on a friend’s computer or something).