Syncthing-Fork using the wrong path

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I use S-F to sync two Android tablets with two Windows PCs. This has been working well for some time. However, S-F has started to give me the error message:

Folder path missing (on both Android devices)

S-F is looking in [int]/syncthing/folder-name

and the folders are configured at

~/folder-name (and always have been. Physically they are at storage/emulated/0/folder-name)

As far as can see the string assigned to ~ has been changed from

storage/emulated/0/

to

storage/emulated/0/syncthing/

Is there any way I can change what S-F assigns to ~?

We’re talking about around 120GB of files so I don’t want to change anything that will cause a complete recopy!

Details Syncthing 1.29.7: Wrapper 1.29.7.4: Android versions 6.0.1 and 14

Syncthing 2 from 1.2.9 breaks folders completely!
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You cannot change the path represented by ~, however, you could go to the Advanced Configuration in the Web GUI (accessible from the left-slide out menu in the app) and change your folder paths there, without using ~ this time.

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Thanks, I’ll give that a try. I hadn’t realised that the “Advanced” menu accessed in that way was different to the “Advanced” one available under the Edit option at the bottom of the folder details.

I wonder why the string assigned to ~ was changed and why no one else has, apparently, had this problem?

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Thanks @Catfriend1. I wonder if my problem may have arisen because I migrated from the “official” Android version of Syncthing to your fork and copied the config across. Is that possible? Or have I misunderstood?

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In the underlying Syncthing, ~ will always be set to something. On Android it looks like it’d be the value of $HOME when that is set and otherwise just /sdcard (whatever that means).

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If I remember correctly, ~ in the official app did default to /storage/emulated/0. This means that configs imported from the official app, which include ~ in their paths, may break in the Fork.

/sdcard is the same as /storage/emulated/0. It’s called like that, because early Android versions did use actual SD cards as their primary storage :sweat_smile:.

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Thank you all for your responses, much appreciated.

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This worked a treat. Thanks again.

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wasn’t more people impacted by this? happened with several devices, all using fdroid version.

my shares with ~ all changed from storage/0 to being looked in storage/0/syncthing.

i had to delete all shares and recreate them on that last update. not using ~ on Android anymore and things are working fine now, but I’m surprised it didn’t impact more folks

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