(all mac’s with brew).
I accidentally connected an obsolete machine, and the syncthing somehow decided to duplicate tons of files that I had deleted years ago. fortunately, I had a backup on a computer that sits on a big pipe. I deleted all my files on ~/Sync/ on this big-pipe-computer, and waited for a while.
I have about 5 machines that sync to this folder. 4 of them are remotely accessible, the 5th is not. (it sits behind a Comcast dynamic IP.)
the delete seemed to percolate to my 4 machines I could see. so, I presume that it also hit the Comcast one.
My first attempt then was to copy the backed-up ~/Sync-backup/ to ~/Sync/ on my main host. On some hosts, I could delete ~/Sync/.stfolder and recreate it, too. It started syncing nicely, but at around 20GB of around 100GB, and at different levels for different machines, it just stops. (it’s not a file permission problem; I made sure to make myself owner of all files. waited for 48 hours now, too, so this is not it.)
I need advice now. I can start over, stopping syncthing on big-pipe-computer (and elsewhere), removing ~/Sync and copying ~/Syncbackup again to ~/Sync. I could rsync everything first to my four computers, and only restart the syncthing when it’s all rsync-ed. should/can I delete all .stfolders in ~/Sync before I restart the syncthing daemons, so that syncthing can figure out that all the files are the same?
advice appreciated.