does any one here have full indepth how know of syncthing setup between ubuntu and andriod please help me so basically i wanted to set up my laptop as a cloud storage with and my mobile as a sender so that i could easily take huge size images and videos in raw and while am connected to internet everything gets backuped in my laptop and get deleted or compressed in mobile but due to some reason currently when i create an image in mobile it gets copied in laptop but when i delete it from mobile it also gets deleted from laptop as well which i don’t want i wanted my mobile to be a sender only and further more i wanted to know if it’s possible to have something like a gallery app for it through which i could easily access all the images and video in mobile like gdrive or something please do let me know
The post is very difficult to read due to lack of punctuation marks, but in general, Syncthing doesn’t work the way you’re trying to utilise it. Without delving into more obscure configuration, how about simply taking moving the files on the computer to a different folder (instead of deleting them on the phone)? This way, you can keep the files on the laptop, and Syncthing will automatically delete them from the phone.
it was so time consuming and ui wasn’t so user friendly so i switched to immich
English grammar requires amongst other things punctuation to be legible.
Please edit your word band worm accordingly if you want help. It’s these days very easy to do with a grammar checker and AI.
What I and many others do is run a script on the computer (laptop/desktop/server) that copies all the mobile files form the Syncthing folder to a new folder on a “cron” / schedule; when they are deleted from the mobile device they will still exist in the new folder.
Syncthing ensures that they get copied from the mobile device to the fixed device.
The script ensures that a copy is saved on the fixed device when they are deleted from the mobile device.
If you use *nix (Linux/FreeBSD) you can copy with hardlinks so you’re not wasting space with duplicates. But if you regularly delete from the mobile device the duplicate space won’t last long.
Enabling versioning in Syncthing (with a reasonably short cleanout period) will help catch anything.
You’re right, that could work in my case as I travel a lot, but then Syncthing doesn’t have the gallery or something, so that I could get to know what is backed up and what’s not
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