I’m new here and am evaluating moving away from cloud sotrage and using Syncthings instead.
My use case is mostly using two computers and sharing a library of sounds and compositions, music stuff, in sync, all great.
What I use my cloud service for is also photo backup, and I want to move away of that as well, for various reasons.
I bought Möbius for that, on iOS. I created a folder that syncs “Recent Pictures" to my computer, works well, but, there are 2 failed items on the computer, which seem to be local files.
I’ve set the folder on the phone to ‘Send only", and on the computer to “receive only". I wonder if that’s correct. And, if it is, I assume files on the computer should try to sync to the phone?
I tried to add the path of these failed items in the ignore list, didn’t work.
I’m not too tek-savvy… but I understand suggestions in general
I’m assuming that you want to share the folder between the two computers, and the phone. If that’s the case, then I’d suggest setting it to “Send & Receive”, not “Receive Only”. As long as the phone is set to “Send Only”, it won’t accept any new files from the computer anyway. Please be aware though that if you press the “Override Changes” button on the phone, it will override (i.e. delete) all files on the other side that don’t exist locally, so you should be very careful with that.
Honestly, I think instead of using “Send Only” you may be better simply using ignore patterns on the phone to specify which folders and files you want to sync with the device. This will be safer than “Send Only” with its always-present “Override Changes” button.
I’m also seeing that you’re using “ignore delete”, which we don’t really recommend unless you’re on a more tech-savvy side and know exactly what you’re doing. Please note that with “ignore delete” enabled, the folder will be reported in the GUI as being permanently “out of sync”.
As for the two “operation not permitted” errors, I think you do need to add those paths to your ignore patterns. You’re saying that doing so doesn’t clear the error, but could you share you current ignore patterns? I’m suspecting that something may be wrong in there.
Thanks for that detailed help. I think now that a better workflow would be to sync recent photos to a “incoming” folder on the computer(s), with both way sync, which would allow me to review new photos and move them to where I need them on the computer(s), and on the way avoiding send or receive only, and that ignore delete that seems inappropriate.
Actually, I don’t see a way to get only most recent pictures… Recent Photos is the whole collection of photos of the iPhone. Other than that I could get specific collections but none is about the most recent, they are about me putting pictures there.
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