Problem - folders not synching

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I’m probably missing something very obvious - I’ve just installed syncthing on my Android phone and Linux computer and I can’t get folders to sync.

I’ve added a folder on the phone, which has some content it. I then added a folder on the computer with the same folder ID and set it to share with the phone. I can see on the phone that the folder is shared with the computer. But the folder does not sync.

The phone says “Idle (100%)” and “114 / 114 Files”, while the computer says “Idle 100%” and “Global State: 0 items”; “Out Of Sync: 0 items”.

On the computer I have v0.10.3, while the phone has 0.5.2 which claims to be Syncthing Version v0.10.3.

Any clue as to what am I missing?

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Have you got that particular folder shared with the other node?

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I’m not sure if what I did is correct - I’m familiar with btsync that has a key for each folder. What I did in Syncthing is to create a folder with a specified Folder ID, and then create the same folder with the same Folder ID in the other node.

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We have an additional step unfortunately. If you pull up the editor for the folder you’ll see a checkbox at the bottom for which devices to share the folder with. Make sure the other side is checked there, on both devices.

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Thanks for the response, but as I’ve mentioned on the first post - I’ve also completed that: the phone has the computer name checked under “Devices” for the folder, and the same on the computer.

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I guess it could be that you’re NAT’ed out on both ends without an ability to communicate directly between the devices. I assume both ends show the other device as offline?

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Currently both nodes are on the same LAN and show each other as connected and “Up to Date”.

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But one of the nodes is missing files. or are the files just different?

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The computer’s shared folder is pointing to an empty directory - I want it to pull the files from the phone.

BTW - with STTRACE=model, the computer has this to say:

[TFK5P] 2014/10/27 16:33:53.777771 main.go:905: INFO: Established secure connection to 7THA2MJ-TKO4EGB-3SGJKBZ-Z5KVEVN-FUCZPTH-ZACQP3A-AW2SQRV-7E2ECQ4 at [fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe10:8f46%enp0s25]:22000-[fe80::2e54:cfff:feea:dd0c%enp0s25]:46904
[TFK5P] 2014/10/27 16:33:53.778055 model.go:852: DEBUG: sendIndexes for 7THA2MJ-TKO4EGB-3SGJKBZ-Z5KVEVN-FUCZPTH-ZACQP3A-AW2SQRV-7E2ECQ4-[fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe10:8f46%enp0s25]:22000-[fe80::2e54:cfff:feea:dd0c%enp0s25]:46904/"mobile-downloads" starting
[TFK5P] 2014/10/27 16:33:53.778414 model.go:926: DEBUG: sendIndexes for 7THA2MJ-TKO4EGB-3SGJKBZ-Z5KVEVN-FUCZPTH-ZACQP3A-AW2SQRV-7E2ECQ4-    [fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe10:8f46%enp0s25]:22000-[fe80::2e54:cfff:feea:dd0c%enp0s25]:46904/"mobile-downloads": 0 files (small initial index)
[TFK5P] 2014/10/27 16:33:54.125371 puller.go:134: DEBUG: puller/mobile-downloads@0xc2083a82d0 skip (curVer == prevVer) 0
[TFK5P] 2014/10/27 16:33:54.432392 model.go:528: INFO: Device 7THA2MJ-TKO4EGB-3SGJKBZ-Z5KVEVN-FUCZPTH-ZACQP3A-AW2SQRV-7E2ECQ4 client is "syncthing v0.10.3"
[TFK5P] 2014/10/27 16:33:54.432510 model.go:531: INFO: Device 7THA2MJ-TKO4EGB-3SGJKBZ-Z5KVEVN-FUCZPTH-ZACQP3A-AW2SQRV-7E2ECQ4 name is "localhost"
[TFK5P] 2014/10/27 16:33:55.125639 puller.go:134: DEBUG: puller/mobile-downloads@0xc2083a82d0 skip (curVer == prevVer) 0

Then it repeates the last line every second or so.

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Can you check the rescan interval on the phone? I have a feeling that the files on the phone haven’t been picked up… Which might be due to 0 rescan interval…

Alternatively, add a new empty file to perhaps trigger an update and version bump.

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The rescan interval on the phone is 60. I’ve added a small file, and the UI on the phone has increased the file count - but the computer’s debug outptu still says

"mobile-downloads": 0 files

Opening the web UI on the phone, I see a notice:

"Unexpected folder ID “mobile-downloads” send tfom device "

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Check for spelling and typos, it seems that you might have misspelled the folder name somewhere? I guess you should be getting same type of messages on the other node? If not, perhaps the folder is shared on one device but not the other?

I guess you could post screenshots which would help us debug the situation.

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Here’s how this looks on the phone:

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And this is on the desktop:

I don’t get the “Unexpected folder” notice on the computer.

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Ok, interesting - now I noticed that in the web interface on the phone you can see that the folder is only shared with “localhost” (which, if I understand correctly, the phone itself) while in the phone UI both external nodes are checked.

From more testing, it looks like when you create a new folder from the phone UI, it has all external nodes selected by default, but it does not actually enable sharing with them - as can be seen in the web UI. I can unselect all nodes, exit from editing, get back in to select the nodes again and only then it works.

Currently it looks to be syncing fine.

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I can confirm this issue on a Galaxy S4. The share checkbox was automatically checked in the app GUI but when I switched to Web GUI the folders were not shared. Checking them in the Web GUI appears to have fixed the sync issue. However, I keep seeing an error in the Web GUI (on the phone) that says:

Global discovery: stat /etc/resolv.conf: no such file of directory; trying again in 1m0s

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Can you check what’s the value of the global announce server in the config? It should be an IP and not a hostname, if it’s a hostname, change it to 194.126.249.5

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You’re right, it was announce.syncthing.net:22026. Changing it to the IP resolved the error. Thank you.

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By the way, the hostname was default after downloading Syncthing (Pulse) from the app store.

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@Nutomic mentioned that shouldn’t happen, so I smell a bug somewhere. Same goes with the ‘Share with’ selection, I suggest you raise an issue on his tracker.