I have out of sync issue on one of my folders that is very similar to the problem mentioned on the following post. However, I am hoping I don’t need to remove the target machine’s folder completely and resync everything since the folder is very large. It would take a day for the 2 folders to completely sync from scratch. Are there other ways to fix the “local and global state totally wrong” issue?
A bit more details about how I got to this error: I created a sync between folders on 3 different machines using syncthing. After syncing, I removed the sync on machine 2. Later, after sometime of use, I would like to sync up the folder on machine 2 with previously synced folder on machine 1 again, because that folder has changed. However, after re-adding the folder using sync thing, the local state and global state on machine 2 becomes in consistent with the real stats. For instance, there are actually 8 files and 2 folders inside the folder on machine 1, but syncthing on machine 2 thinks there are 14 files and 4 folders on machine 1 for the global state, and then for the local state it thinks there are 8 files and 2 folders locally, and as a result, it still thinks the 2 machines are out of sync even after syncing is completed. Removing and re-adding the folder a few times through syncthing without removing the folder locally would cause the local and global state to keep adding up (from 2 folders to 4 folders to 8 folders etc) every time I re-add it.