Syncthing cannot sync files that are being used.

Walou · May 13, 2021, 12:30pm

As title described, i’m trying to read logs with a program in windows 10 (chia plot status) outputted by an ubuntu 18.04 PC into $RANDOM.txt files with a program to monitor a chia plotting activity

I made a shared folder to be able to monitor the Ubuntu logs from windows

The syncthing log on windows:

[CATRP] 14:19:07 INFO: "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef): Failed to sync 6 items
[CATRP] 14:19:07 INFO: Folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef) isn't making sync progress - retrying in 1m0s.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Puller (folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef), item "21123.txt"): syncing: removing item to be replaced: trashcan versioner: archive: remove \\?\J:\Users\Mathias\Chia_Logs\21123.txt: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Puller (folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef), item "26642.txt"): syncing: opening temp file: open \\?\J:\Users\Mathias\Chia_Logs\~syncthing~26642.txt.tmp: The file exists.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Puller (folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef), item "2428.txt"): syncing: removing item to be replaced: trashcan versioner: archive: remove \\?\J:\Users\Mathias\Chia_Logs\2428.txt: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Puller (folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef), item "6016.txt"): syncing: removing item to be replaced: trashcan versioner: archive: remove \\?\J:\Users\Mathias\Chia_Logs\6016.txt: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Puller (folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef), item "16154.txt"): syncing: removing item to be replaced: trashcan versioner: archive: remove \\?\J:\Users\Mathias\Chia_Logs\16154.txt: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Puller (folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef), item "23949.txt"): syncing: removing item to be replaced: trashcan versioner: archive: remove \\?\J:\Users\Mathias\Chia_Logs\23949.txt: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Puller (folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef), item "25122.txt"): syncing: removing item to be replaced: trashcan versioner: archive: remove \\?\J:\Users\Mathias\Chia_Logs\25122.txt: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef): Failed to sync 7 items
[CATRP] 14:19:17 INFO: Folder "Chia_Logs" (cohv6-rcnef) isn't making sync progress - retrying in 1m0s.

I tried a couple a couple things like versioning but syncthing stops syncing files when accessed by chia plots status, i’m not sure what do. Thanks

AudriusButkevicius · May 13, 2021, 12:42pm

It should resolve itself if you close the files. The problem is that your application opens the logs with exclusive access.

If it’s some text editor that might be expected, you might want to try BareTail or something like that.

Walou · May 13, 2021, 12:55pm

Yeah the files do sync again if i close the app, i might report this as an issue to chia plot status. I’ll mention this exclusive access problem. The thing is usually chia plot status can read plot files that are being outputted on windows by a powershell for example and no issues arise, the log keeps being updated by powershell and chia plot status can read them fine. But the log files coming from syncthing cause this. Thank you

Walou · May 14, 2021, 9:57am

In case anyone is interested, the chia plot status dev fixed this issue :

github.com/grayfallstown/Chia-Plot-Status

chia plot status preventing files from updating in syncthing

opened 08:46PM - 13 May 21 UTC

Waloumi

apologies in advance if this is not relevant to chia plot status, if you still w…anna know, read the following using windows 10, ubuntu 18.04 so i've been trying to get logs created on an ubuntu machine to be monitored in chia plot status to do that, i tried using syncthing to make a shared folder from linux to windows to be able to have my windows chia plot status app to read the logs what ensued is this: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-cannot-sync-files-that-are-being-used/16803 (syncthing cannot update the log files coming from ubuntu into the syncthing folder because they are open in chia plot status) according to the creator of syncthing, it seems like chia plot status is **holding exclusive access** to the file and so syncthing cannot update the logs. What doesnt make sense to me is that chia plot status can read logs being written by powershell when a plot is running and writing the .txt files just fine. I'll probably find another solution but for now it seems like a good one to monitor multiple plotting machines on one PC, if it worked. Thank you

system · June 13, 2021, 9:57am

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