One side - send only, other side - receive only. Why does the receive side always have locally changed files and how do I stop it?

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Been using syncthing for years, and this weekend wanted to have it ‘backup’ a folder from another machine. Its about 20,000 pictures.

Anyhow, on the server I ‘shared’ out the folder as send only. I dont want anything to come back to it.

On the machine that is holding the backup, I accepted the folder, and made it receive only. Cool.

Away it goes, synced up. I check in today, and it’s showing 30,000+ items are out of sync on the backup side, and its showing ‘revert changes’. I understand whats going on, I think. But how can I have that the default. I want it to be the backup of the other, no questions asked.

Am I missing a setting somewhere?

PS. Im on a Mac, so I think maybe its making a bunch of the .ds_store files, but…Id just like it to ignore anything that isn’t on the other.

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Which version of Syncthing are you running? If it’s v1.27.11, then the local changes are likely due to a known issue (see https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/9677), and you must upgrade to v1.27.12 to get rid of them.

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Hmm, no, appears 1.27.12 on both ends.

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You need to look at what the changes are, and if they are not made by your applications, but by the OS, find a way to stop them from happening on ignore the files.

There is no magic “fix this situation” button.