Syncing selected [sub] folders within a master folder

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1

I have the following scenario;

A master folder i.e. on drive D: “All Documents”. Within in there are many other folders as well as sub-folders of folders et al.

When I try to sync more than one [other different] sub-folder within the master folder, syncthing warns me of an error that already another folder within the master folder is synchronized.

Why is that and how can I avoid it and synchronize individually various sub-folders and sub-sub-folders within that master folder?

2

The warning appears when a sub/child folder is shared while one of its parent folders is also already shared.

For example:

D:\All Documents
└── A
    └── AB
        └── ABC

If D:\All Documents is shared, and then later on D:\All Documents\A\AB\ABC is added as a new share, it triggers the warning because sharing D:\All Documents already included the contents of D:\All Documents\A\AB\ABC.

3

Sharing a folder shares all of that folder’s subfolders. So it’s not necessary to explicitly share all the subfolders.

You can either:

  1. not share the parent folder and share all the subfolders you want.

  2. share the parent folder and use excludes to include or exclude the subdirectories you wanna sync.

4

If you are talking about the “Warning, this path is a parent directory of an existing folder” warning, that is advisory. You can add the folder anyway, but be careful not to share a subfolder with a device that you also shared the parent folder with.

I think some people are missing that the subfolder is not necessarily shared with the same devices as the parent folder.

5

The original poster didn’t make any such assertion. So I believe the comments assume the OP may not understand the pitfalls of sharing subfolder of already shared folders.