# Sync-conflict while editing
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-conflict-while-editing/14787
**Category:** User Stories
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-conflict-while-editing/14787 "2020-04-10T02:09:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Russ](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Russ)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-conflict-while-editing/14787/1 "2020-04-10T02:09:20Z")
I have a raspberry pi running linux with an NTFS external HardDisk mounted with ntfs-3g. The normal read-write of this HD is very good. However, while I edit a file on other devices that synchronize with this HD on raspberry pi, no matter the device is Windows or Linux, a lot of sync-conflits are generated. I was pretty sure that only one device was used to edit the file.
I tried everything such as file owner, attributes, etc. with no luck. Eventually I formatted the HD on raspberry pi to linux ext4 format instead of ntfs. It finally settles. Everything is fine now.It seems that there might be compatible issue in ntfs-3g on linux that caused the problem.
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### Author:  [@AudriusButkevicius](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/AudriusButkevicius)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-conflict-while-editing/14787/2 "2020-04-10T09:03:48Z")
Syncthing expects sensible behaviours from the underlying filesystems, and I guess that is not happening in this case, with file modification timestamps moving around, or something along the lines etc.
I guess best option to understand why the conflicts are happening is look at how the files are different.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-conflict-while-editing/14787/3 "2020-04-10T12:48:27Z")
ntfs-3g is fine, I use it extensively with Syncthing.
It’s probably the missing clock on pi, someone recently wrote a howto about that: [Pi, no RTC, correct syncthing time at auto-start](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/pi-no-rtc-correct-syncthing-time-at-auto-start/14627)
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### Author:  [@Russ](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Russ)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-conflict-while-editing/14787/4 "2020-04-10T14:38:18Z")
Thank you for the note. I will look into that thread. I am curious why the ext4 file system has no such problem on Pi.
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### Author:  [@Russ](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Russ)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-conflict-while-editing/14787/5 "2020-04-10T14:47:09Z")
For example, i edit a WORD file by typing in new text on a device and save it to local disk. Pi will generate a sync-conflict file which is a version before the local save is made, without those newly typed text.