Status vs. out of sync?

This is confusing to me.

The status of a folder is “Up to date” but there are 204 items “Out of sync”.

How can a folder be “up to date” but still have items out of sync?

Shouldn’t be. Have you tried refreshing the page?

From your post it isn’t clear, so I’m asking: Isn’t that folder set as master?

Yes, it is set as master:

Screen Capture

In that case, everything is as expected.

Discussion about it: [v0.8.16] Override changes from master repo

Issue about missing description in docs: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/1343

There are two cases where I’m finding the “Out of Sync” status confusing.

a. When can a Master folder be out of sync? It seems to me that by definition a master folder is always in sync.

b. A folder being considered out of sync when files in .stignore are missing. Isn’t that the point of .stignore, that certain files lack of sync is “as expected?”

[Sadly as a new user that screen shot will have to be placed in a following post. Apologies]

If there is a better place to make these observations than this old thread, apologies and please advise.

Hamish.

Screen capture illustrating point b. above.

PS. I would have numbered the points, but the ordered list stuff went awry on me.

  1. List item

  2. List item - ah ha. In the edit pane, it says “1. List item.” Preview reads 2. “List item.”

Please read the docs, it explains why masters appears out of sync.

http://docs.syncthing.net/users/foldermaster.html

Out of sync for .stignored files disappears if you restart all nodes simultaneously.

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