Swapping Drives Containing Shared Folders Between Machines

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Hi Jakob:

Thanks for the quick response.

I’m needing to set the machines and drives back to their original positions:

Machine A <-> Drive A
Machine B <-> Drive B

(‘A’ is my master setup, and is more performant than ‘B’ - hence the need to revert the allocation of drives.)

So if I made no changes to the Syncthing config before setting it up again, I would have a mismatch between the database and filesystems on both machines:

  • Machine A will have a filesystem older than its database thinks;
  • Machine B will have a filesystem newer than its database thinks.

I know! :slight_smile: But sometimes the real world intrudes, hence Feature Request: Include Unique Token in .stfolder Marker :laughing: (I hope to spend some time on this at some point soon, once I’ve got some other projects out of the way. I’m a very amateur developer, so it wouldn’t be a quick process for me!)

Unfortunately there are several different drives which host shared folders on each machine - and, to my knowledge, I can’t split the database so that each drive holds only its own data… :wink: