No connection and slow since updating to1.29.6-1 on Mac OSX

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I am so unsavy this may be painful to some of you. Since I updated this morning SyncThing pinwheels every time I select the icon, and then even on the “about” window. If I try to open in the web browser it says the site can’t be reached. I use Syncthing Fork on my android on the same network and it still connects fine (seemingly, although it now shows as disconnected from my work lappy). I tried going to Synthing Preferences and hit the test button - it is still pinwheeling. I have obviously tried just shutting it down and opening it again. I use SyncThing to sync Obsidian across my devices. I am running MaxOSX 13.7.4 on an M2 chip macbook air. I don’t know what other information to provide to be useful here. If you need something from the command line please be specific as my assumed knowledge there is low. I assume there is some incompatibility issue as I haven’t found anyone else reporting this problem.

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This sounds less like compatibility and more like Syncthing (note, no capital “T”) isn’t running on your Mac.

Is Syncthing set up to run automatically (see Starting Syncthing Automatically — Syncthing documentation)?

Is it running at all? To find out, open Terminal and use ps -ef | grep syncthing — if you see three processes (two for Syncthing and one for grep), Syncthing is running. If you see only one process (the one for grep) Syncthing is not running.

EDITED to correct what processes might be seen.

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Thank you! I ran ps -ef | grep syncthing s you said, and there are 3 processes running (1 grep, 2 syncthing).

  503 77869     1   0 11Mar25 ??       74934:19.89 /Volumes/Syncthing/Syncthing.app/Contents/Resources/syncthing/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logfile=default
  503 77870 77869   0 11Mar25 ??       92038:49.57 /Volumes/Syncthing/Syncthing.app/Contents/Resources/syncthing/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logfile=default
  503 44148 44127   0  1:46pm ttys000    0:00.00 grep syncthing
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Apparently closing the app doesn’t stop Syncthing, since it’s been running since March 11. I’d suggest trying to actually kill/restart Syncthing. Not sure what the easiest way to do that is with the macOS integration. Restarting the computer would suffice. :slight_smile: Also suggest moving the app from the DMG to your local disk /Applications.

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Ahh, all my bad habits are being exposed. Restarting also fixed where it appeared to be running from … :person_shrugging: Now I just have to figure out why setting OneDrive to backup my documents folder has duplicated every list in Obsidian and I will be back in sync!

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