# One-way Sync doesn't let me delete files on target device

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/one-way-sync-doesnt-let-me-delete-files-on-target-device/16434
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/one-way-sync-doesnt-let-me-delete-files-on-target-device/16434 "2021-03-03T08:50:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![David.P](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/david.p/32/6291_2.png) [@David.P](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/David.P)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/one-way-sync-doesnt-let-me-delete-files-on-target-device/16434/6 "2021-03-04T20:34:18Z")

</div>

The screenshots are taken within minutes of having deleted that file “Updated 20XXXX - Copy.vsd” and the file having been re-synced from PC A to PC B.

I should add that I have been **manually** syncing files back from PC B to PC A for many months. Syncing back automatically has turned out [too dangerous](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/folder-marker-missing-re-created-it-file-mass-deletion/14346) for me.

It seems that Syncthing on PC A doesn’t recognize this and thinks there are lots of different files, when actually there aren’t any – as Syncthing on PC B also reports correctly.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/one-way-sync-doesnt-let-me-delete-files-on-target-device/16434)._