Synced files show up as .syncthing.*.tmp

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Synced files only show up as .syncthing.*.tmp files (meaning they are hidden by default). The MD5sums match, files can be opened and manipulated and are identical.

For obvious reasons this renaming thing is not ideal and I would like it to stop (technically it would be possible to bulk rename everything but that is less than ideal).

I tried it on Linux<->Windows and Linux<->Linux (Ubuntu and Win 8.1 Pro). Running the latest windows version and the version from the ubuntu-repository. I have yet to try out the windows<->windows route with my Win8.1 Tablet.

Has anybody encountered something like this before?

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Those are temporary files. If they are not renamed to their actual name you should have entries for them under sync failures in the gui?

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Thanks. That brought me on the right track :slight_smile:

I did not check for sync errors on the “client side” (the machine receiving the data) and it went to a folder that was owned by root of the group plugdev.

That is not a problem since the folder I’m syncing is in the home directory. But it seems like I have to study up on Linux permissions.

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