I’m just getting started with syncthing, so I’m probably doing something really wrong, sorry.
I have computer A and computer B. I set up both of them to share one folder. (Computer A is a raspberry pi, and computer B is running Manjaro Linux, if this is important.) I have the web GUI open for both computers.
As soon as I want to share these folders between the two computers, I am asked if I want to add the folder from the opposite computer. Evidently I have to agree, or else the files won’t be synced.
As soon as I agree, there are two folders on the left of each GUI: the original one, as I expect, and the external one, which I don’t expect. This seems to mean that each computer now has two folders to share, and not just the one that I set up.
This seems redundant. Am I missing something obvious?
It sounds like you set up your shared folder twice manually, once on each computer, with different folder IDs, and then shared them both. That’s precisely twice the required amount of work. If you want to set the folder up manually on both sides you need to manually make sure the folder ID is the same, to tie them together. Otherwise set it up on one side and share it with the other, then accept it there.
Now I deleted the same folder on each computer’s GUI, so that the folder on computer A is the main one. I accepted to share the folder on computer B, but now I get an error message about the folder marker being missing.
On computer A there are two folders named “.stfolder.removed”, with two different times from earlier this morning. On computer B there is one such folder, with the same timecode as one of them on computer A.
So I’m stuck again. Should I delete something and start over?
I decided to delete all the shared folders and start over. Better now than later, because there are only two computers involved, and the data has already been synced on both computers.
It seems fine, now. And now that I understand a bit more, I can start to add other computers.
Thanks to the tip from calmh I was able to work it out.