Hey there,
Syncthing shows 3 files (git object files) as being out of sync on one of my machines, while on the other the folder shows as “Up to Date” without any out of sync files. However, the files are not present on either machine - the only difference is that on the machine that shows them as “Up to Date”, they are inside the .stversions folder.
So my question is, what happened to those files and how do I get the other machine to show being in Sync again?
Well it means there is a problem, it’s usually visible in the UI.
Post screeenshots from both sides if you want more analysis (rather than a rant that doesn’t help us help you).
You can blank out your device names or whatever you feel is sensitive. Are you sure the files that are out of sync are not matched by the ignore patterns?
Well so far you’ve provided very little, so I can tell you as much as having looked at my coffee mug. Yes the logs might show the errors, so might screenshots of whole UI.
In the day and age of sensitive data you seem wholly oblivious to it, which as the dev is rather worrying.
I’ll take a look at the logs and see if I can help myself, as you’ll get as much info from your coffee mug as the remaining part of my screen that you haven’t seen.
There is a UX issue here which sucks a bit. Syncthing (re)tries syncing about once a minute, when it is in a situation where the syncing fails. When that happens, you get an extra line in the folder summary saying something like Failed items: 42 where the 42 is a link to a dialog showing the failure cases. That isn’t shown though if the UI wasn’t up when it happened, mostly. So you might need to stare at it for a while, with no indication that the relevant info is missing…
The remaining option is that the files that need to be synced are not available on any connected device. We’d have known that if you’d shown us the other devices’ status.
[R6JX5] 17:08:02 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen
[R6JX5] 17:08:03 INFO: Restarted folder “Default Folder” (default) (readwrite)
[R6JX5] 17:08:08 INFO: Completed initial scan (rw) of “Default Folder” (default)
[R6JX5] 17:09:03 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen
[R6JX5] 17:09:03 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen
[R6JX5] 17:10:00 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen
[R6JX5] 17:10:00 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen
[R6JX5] 17:11:34 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen
[R6JX5] 17:11:34 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen
[R6JX5] 17:13:05 INFO: Connected to myself (redacted) - should not happen