I had a working Syncthing on my computer on external disk.
After apgrading the motherboard and the OS
I run the Syncthing from the same disk.
But when I open the GUI - the configuration is empty.
You need to recover files (*.pem & config.xml) from previous %localappdata%\Syncthing directory. Just type this string as is in Windows Explorer places bar or whatever the name is nowadays: this will show you the current path. Then search in Users folder for the profile used before and dig into it to a similar path.
Shutdown ST and replace the 5 files. A little bit of knowledge your OS is expected (Users, profiles, Explorer … all this would help you to recover many other configurations)
BTW : this is very well explained in ST documentation
No - I didnt know I could…
I still have the old OS disk since I used an M2 ssd to install the new one.
I could try to boot from it and then see if I see the old configuration and do a backup,
But I think I would just copy the configuration files - Do you think it will work?
Of course, no booting it won’t make by magic that %localappdata% will direct to the old disk ;-). This is just the track. Take a look at the doc for the real path which will be OK but the drive letter.
panic: creating temporary directory: mkdir C:\DiskD\SyncThing\Syncthing\tmp-index-sorter.525657718: The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error.
I think that this was the last chkdsk this disk will make in its life It’s finally dead - I think…I have a backup of all the data - so no hard feelings