# Out-of-sync errors from the past
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-errors-from-the-past/20096
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 17, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-errors-from-the-past/20096 "2023-04-17T21:54:57Z")
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### Author:  [@adiabatic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/adiabatic)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-errors-from-the-past/20096/1 "2023-04-17T21:54:57Z")
I’ve got several computers and an iPad syncing most things successfully. However, I’m going through some out-of-sync items between my new MacBook (purchased two years ago) and my Windows machine, and my usual tricks aren’t helping.
My Windows machine says that a bunch of files — mostly `.DS_Store` files and `Thumbs.db` files — are out of date. The weird part: **All of these files’ modification times are from before this laptop even existed**. Furthermore, the modifying device, for most of these files, has a device name that I don’t recognize. It can’t even be my old laptop, since it’s a 2015 model and these modification times range from 2011 to 2018.
My iMac is a 2017 model, and somehow there’s a `.DS_Store` file that was modified in 2016 by my iMac.
Normally I’d just run
```sh
find . -name .DS_Store -delete
```
on all my Macs and also run the Windows equivalent on the Windows machine, but I’ve done that on all my devices and that hasn’t cleared the reported sync error on the Windows machine. The `.DS_Store` files are all gone, yet this error remains.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@adiabatic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/adiabatic)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-errors-from-the-past/20096/2 "2023-04-17T22:02:32Z")
I think I’ve solved it.
On all my Macs, I have a `.stignore-shared` with the following contents:
```plaintext
(?d).DS_Store
(?d)Thumbs.db
_gen
```
and an `.stignore` that looks like this:
```plaintext
#include .stignore-shared
```
…but not on my Windows machine, at least until a minute ago.
Now everything’s cleared up.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-errors-from-the-past/20096/3 "2023-05-17T22:03:31Z")
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