Syncing folders inside Parallels Desktop

[Adam_likes_syncthing (Adam)]

have just found that the .stfolder is actually present in the /users/aph/Y-test folder. It is just that finder is set up to hide .* folders.

So the issue must be something else

[chaos]

The failures to write to config.xml need to be resolved for sure!

[Adam_likes_syncthing (Adam)]

I changed the permissions in \Applications\Sync so “everyone” has read/write access This may have got rid of the error with not being able to change config.xml but now I have these errors


I then changed the permissions for both config.xml and config.xml.v0 in /Users/aph/Library/Application Support/Syncthing/ to everyone

The cannot write permissions error continues.

[chaos]

What user owns the Syncthing process? Does that user have write permissions in the Folder locations?

[Adam_likes_syncthing (Adam)]

Yes. My user name is aph, and I am administrator

[chaos]

It looks like the OS is not allowing the Syncthing process to write files in the Application Support directory. But I don’t know why.

I’m not super smart on Mac file permissions —- can you start Syncthing in a different directory and see if it resolves the issue? There are two ways to do it (from Syncthing — Syncthing documentation):

syncthing —-home=<dir>

Or:

syncthing —-config=<dir> —-data=<dir>

The latter is used when you want the configuration and the database directories to be separate. In that case, you must use both command line switches.

[Adam_likes_syncthing (Adam)]

Hi My Mac was in the shop to replace the battery so I have not worked on this until today. I tried the suggestion to define a different home directory, by opening a terminal and typing " ``` syncthing —-home=sync_jab9 where sync_jab9 is a folder I made at the top level.

I then tried to use syncthing but the location I had been using so far to access the web console http://127.0.0.1.8384 but Safari would not connect to that page

=== I have watched a you Tube video on syncthing https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=syncthing+on+MacOS#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4417292f,vid:PSx-BkMOPF4,st:0 and decided to delete the version of sycnthing, and follow this guide.

I was ableo to download Syncthing-1.28.0-1.dmg and installed it in Applications

Again, when I tried to access the web console as per the instructions in the video localhost:8384 Safari said it cannot access that page (my wifi is working) Similarly when I tried using http://127.0.0.1.8384 Safari said it cannot access the page.

Any suggestions ?

I deleted syncthing

[chaos]

Ideas:

• When running Syncthing — or anything else! —- with command line arguments that contain directories, I strongly suggest the full directory path rather than a relative path.

• If you cannot see the Syncthing UI, the first thing to check is that it isn’t a certificate error. The second thing to check is that the Syncthing process is running.