Syncing Stuck at 98% (Mac to iPhone Device)

[whythis (bleh)]

Hello! Hoping to have some assistance or direction on what to do.

Trying to help a friend sync their Obsidian files across devices (Mac → iPhone and potentially iPad). Got the app and linked devices but it keeps stopping at 98% and not uploading or downloading anything else.

Here are two screenshots, in case they help.

I have noted a similarity to this post however since I’m using a mac I couldn’t figure out how to make it work.

Super appreciate any response that could point me towards resolving this issue, thanks!

[chaos]

The reset-deltas command-line argument works the same on the Mac. Use Terminal to stop Syncthing and start it again with that option.

Which Syncthing client are you using on the iPad? I did some searching and cannot easily figure out how to do the same on that side.

[whythis (bleh)]

Hey, thanks for your response!

I’ve just come back to to this today to try and see if I can get it fixed. I don’t know what the equivalent to Mac is so I googled how to terminate an application using Terminal and tried something like:

pkill -x Synchthing reset-deltas

As well as

pkill -x Synchthing -reset-deltas

And didn’t really get the program to close so I’m wondering if you can be a bit more specific in what kind of command I should be writing.

Also, to answer your question, we didn’t set it up with the iPad yet so I don’t know what program that would be. On the iPhone it’s Mobius Sync so presumably it might be that app if it’s available.

[chaos]

You want to start Syncthing with the reset-deltas command-line switch.

So if you use pkill to stop Syncthing, then start it again with that command-line switch.

On my Mac, I have Syncthing starting automatically per Starting Syncthing Automatically — Syncthing v0.11 documentation using the “without Homebrew” method. So this is what I would do in your shoes:

pkill Syncthing

~/bin/syncthing --reset-deltas

Let us know if this fixes things for you!