Many Sync Conflicts

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I have a setup of a Linux-Server, a Mac at Work, a Mac at Home and a Macbook i use on the go and some VMs.

The Macbook was some weeks not in use, maybe a month and i startet it. It syncs with the Mac at home and the Server.

After that, i have many Sync-Conflicts, in every Folder and most git repositorys where broken. (now i know that i shouldn’t sync them ;))

The strange thing is that there are not 2 Versions of the files but a normal file or a conflict file.

How can this happen? (Maybe i can help to resolve that?)

Could that be resolved?

I have a zipped Version of that Folder from the Macbook. So the Data is not lost, but it should not happen again. I should really have a Backup!

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The normal file and the conflict file are the two versions which are conflicting. You resolve it by choosing a version you prefer, and potentially renaming the conflict file instead of the real file.

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have you looked at the screenshot? there are NOT 2 files.

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Right, which means the conflict is between a concurrent deletion and modification.

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Did you recently clear the db from one of those machines? It is easy to trigger a conflict if you remove a db when your files are not in sync.

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I have not modified or deleted this files in that folder on any node. Some other files have changed.

I think the Macbook updated to 0.11 and generated a new index.

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That will be the cause, because:

  1. it has old data
  2. when rebuilding the database, Syncthing forgets that these were old files, hence conflicts will be introduced when this machine start syncing.
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So what would be to solution to this?

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  • don’t remove the db or make sure all files are up to date on both sides before doing so
  • if we change the db format, we should add a conversion script
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But shit happened and many files have this “sync-conflict” string in its name. How do I get rid of it and stay consistent?