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HAVE : I need to sync my laptop with my workstation desktop and vice versa. All my user data, folder and files are on a drive D: partition. Same configuration on both machines.

IHAD: For a long time I have used sync.com. Where via the cloud files and folders got synchronized/updated respectively when you added or deleted something on one updated and matched it. But recently they changed their business model and with that have lost my trust.

SYNCTHING SOLUTION: A friend recommended to use Syncthing. So I got a current copy and installed it and I’m playing around with it. I’ve set up my laptop and my desktop. They both see each other. Desktop sees a remote device “laptop” and laptop sees remote device “desktop”.

But I’m hitting a configuration/setup snag. If I want to share the [sub-folder & files] contents of the folder say D:\Projects\ as I have on either system these folders.

But when I setup syncthing on the machines i get on either a path conflict when setting up the same respective folder[s]. I can’t figure out what I’m dong wrong as I want the same folders synced [with each other] as either machine has files changed/added or deleted the other updated = synced!

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If you have already shared D:\ to a device (maybe you haven’t and I’m misinterpreting here), I don’t see the purpose of sharing a child folder (D:\Projects\) with that same device (because D:\ contains D:\Projects\), and that will cause errors when both folders try to sync at the same time.

If I’m understanding correctly, the solution here is to remove the child folder from Syncthing (Edit → Remove) on both devices.

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Hi and thank you for your reply!

No I’m not sharing as you described. It is one folder on drive D: which contains a lot of sub-folders and files.

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I think screenshots would greatly help better understand the situation here.

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