Hello!
I have been using Syncthing most happily and successfully for about a year now. Love it. But just before my most recent trip, I checked that all was sync’d and it wasn’t, nor could I force the issue by rescanning. I believe the problem was caused by different versions of syncthing…I had not updated it on one of the computers.
So, I updated and since then I am now getting duplicate representation of devices AND folders…and the folders say they are sync’d but they are NOT. This gets a coveted “Hmmm…”
I am wondering how to best remedy this. As mentioned, all was fine for a long time. Should I uninstall, and reinstall on both computers? Is there a best method to uninstall completely so as to avoid any residual duplicating of devices and folders?
Are the folder IDs and paths the same? Not sure I’ve ever seen a similar problem on the forum, but at this point, I think you should just try removing the duplicates via the GUI.
No they are definitely different. That’s the thing…I think when I updated PC, it created a new device at the same time. I have tried to remove the various folders and they keep repopulating.
I am wondering if there is one other possibility. My main PC is connected to the network by both hard-wire ethernet (ergo 1 network), and by Wifi. I wonder if these are treated separately.
It is a configuration issue. You added two folders with the same label but different ID. Possibly at the same path or different. It has nothing to do with multiple network connections.
Check all involved devices and then use the folder ID which is more common among them. Check which path each instance is configured to look at and whether that is correctl. Remove the wrong instance (from the configuration / Edit - Remove in the GUI) and take a good look at which path it was synchronizing before removing any possible duplicate files.
It needs to be the same folder ID on both devices, for each common folder. That’s how devices identify what to sync with other devices. And you must also select the other device under a folder’s Sharing tab in the folder editing dialog.
The whole situation degenerated. Suddenly a pw was entered into the GUI admin panel. I never entered that! Just weird, I ended up scanning to make sure my system wasn’t infected. Anyway, uninstalled with Revo on both systems, and reinstalled, and all is fine.
You may want to check your password manager settings (if using any), as I’ve seen reports on the forum, where passwords were entered automatically into wrong fields in the Web GUI due to how the particular password manager detected them.
