# newbie question about Global State
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632 "2020-03-11T14:31:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@wiffel](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/wiffel)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/1 "2020-03-11T14:31:54Z")
I’ve just installed Syncthing on two windows machines and a linux server. I’m syncing a few folders between the three machines.
I noticed that some folders do not show the same ‘Global State’. E.g my ‘desktop’ folder shows 1123 files on one of my windows machines and 1183 files on my linux server.
Could this be normal behavior? I was under the impression that all three machines would - after syncing - have the same number of files in the shared directories.
Or do I see that wrong ?
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/2 "2020-03-11T14:49:20Z")
Unless you have ignore patterns they should ideally be the same
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### Author:  [@wiffel](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/wiffel)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/3 "2020-03-11T22:04:59Z")
I do have ignore patterns. But they are the same for all of them.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/4 "2020-03-11T22:07:46Z")
Even if you have ignore patterns, global states should match. Are you on 1.3.4? One problem fixed in 1.4.0 can result in incorrect global states.
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### Author:  [@wiffel](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/wiffel)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/5 "2020-03-11T22:24:04Z")
Yes, I’m on 1.3.4 Not sure how I can try 1.4.0
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### Author:  [@wiffel](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/wiffel)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/6 "2020-03-11T22:34:59Z")
I did do a check with _ **rsync** _ to figure out the differences between the directories. It didn’t show any differences between the directories.
So I guess that it is indeed a reporting issue, not a sync issue.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/7 "2020-03-11T22:36:41Z")
It’s in the release candidate track for now, but the final release shouldn’t be too far away (hopefully).
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### Author:  [@wiffel](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/wiffel)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/8 "2020-03-11T23:14:16Z")
For the moment I’m happy with the syncing. So, I’ll wait for the next release to check again …
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/newbie-question-about-global-state/14632/9 "2020-04-10T23:14:18Z")
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