# Out of Sync index-v2 folder
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 30, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970 "2026-07-30T10:50:48Z")
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### Author:  [@ky0nshi](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/ky0nshi)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970/1 "2026-07-30T10:50:48Z")
I have a folder shared over multiple machines. It keeps staying in the state Syncing 99% on all devices.
The out of sync items in this case are all in the Index-v2 folder in .config.
Is that one needed to sync stuff or could I just e.g. put it on the ignore list?
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970/2 "2026-07-30T10:58:22Z")
You should never sync the database folder.
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### Author:  [@mraneri](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/mraneri)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970/3 "2026-07-30T13:26:02Z")
Are you syncing the whole Syncthing config folder?
Including the keys? The devices need to maintain their own configurations. I would exclude the whole config folder.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970/4 "2026-07-30T13:56:11Z")
Even if not syncing it to a place where it’s used (which would indeed be disaster), any change to the database would be recorded in the database, so it would never be fully in sync.
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### Author:  [@ky0nshi](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/ky0nshi)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970/5 "2026-07-30T14:02:12Z")
It’s odd but that’s how it set up when installed it and created the share. It used to be it synced fully as well, but the last few months I had gotten consistent sync conflicts.
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### Author:  [@cosas](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/cosas)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970/6 "2026-07-31T18:08:31Z")
Just delete the shared folder from within st, then move all your personal files out of .config to a custom directory that you will share, just leaving in .config the keys, the certs, the xml file and the index dir+content.
A .name dir is seldom a personal data dir, mainly a config dir when created by any setup program
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/out-of-sync-index-v2-folder/26970/7 "2026-08-30T18:09:06Z")
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