Syncing folder in synced folder

Hi and apologies if this has been asked multiple times. I couldn`t find a similar post.

What is the best practice for syncing a folder with a device, whose parent folder is already synced with other devices? a) is this a good idea at all? b) how do you deal with versioning? will this result in any conflict?

Here`s the filestructure:

parent folder

  • subfolder A
  • subfolder B
  • subfolder C

the whole parent folder incl. all subfolders gets already synced between 2 devices. Now there is a 3rd device which only should receive and sync subfolder B.

Hope that makes any sense.

Thanks for any advise!

If I understand correctly, you have a parent folder being synced with a peer (“One”), and a sub folder being synced with another peer (“Two”). I also understand that Peers One and Two are not, themselves, peers.

This should just work the way you explain it. Rock on.

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Thanks for the response! Now I am not sure if I understand you correctly. Apologies, let me try it again:

There are 4 devices:

  • Device A (Unraid NAS)
  • Device B (MacOS)
  • Device C (Ubuntu)
  • Device D (Win11)

(C+D dualboot on the same machine)

A B C share the parent folder

D should only sync one of the subfolders inside the parent folder

What is the best way to achieve this, without messing things up?

:slight_smile:

Share the subfolder separately from A or B.

I’m assuming this is a separate copy of the data compared to what is on C and the dual booting part is irrelevant apart from the fact that both C and D can’t be online at the same time.

If, on the other hand, you’re trying to share some of the data between C and D on a common partition but have them as different Syncthing installations with different configs, do not. You will not accomplish this without messing things up.

Thank you! Yes, I can confirm, that C + D run on different partitions, even different phyiscal disks, and yes, they are never online at the same time.

So you are saying, I should setup the subfolder as a new sync folder on D and share for example with A - the NAS that is always on?

That does not lead to versioning conflicts, even if that folder is already shared as part of the parent folder between A,B,C?

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