Dear guys, I’m running two systems - Windows XP and Windows 11. Can I use suncthing to synchronize my documents between them due to XP support issue? What if I use 1.0.1 on the first and 1.1.19 on the second? Or is there any solution?
Why this specific version?
As far as I’m aware, Syncthing v1.29.5 is the last version that can connect to v1.0.1 (as long as you enable https://docs.syncthing.net/v1.29.3/advanced/option-insecure-allow-old-tls-versions.html).
Thanks for the advice. Yes, I just meant the latest version.
This should work stable? This is the only option - I cannot somehow install newer version on XP?
You can try syncspirit for windows XP, download. It is however, less stable then syncthing, atm.
(PS. I hope to release new version with fixes and new features soon)
They should operate with one another, yes. Of course, v1.0.1 is very old and many bugs have been fixed since then.
Maybe with the extended kernel for XP? Please keep in mind that this would be completely unsupported from the Syncthing side, so if something breaks, you’re likely on your own. First and foremost, I’d ensure that you’ve got proper backups of any valuable data that you intend to sync.
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Thank you all. I have upgraded Win XP to Win 8. I cannot install newer one. But now I have to sync Win 8 and Win 11. Please, tell me, what version should I use on both and will it be reliable enough. Because the consistency of the data is dominant priority. Thanx
That will not be possible with an unsupported OS I’m afraid. You can run up to Syncthing v1.23.7 on Windows 8, but newer releases will require Windows 10 at a minimum. Recent syncthing should interoperate with that version, but it’s not really a tested or supported deployment.
What is the actual hardware? I’m asking because I think it’s very rare for a device to be able to run Windows 8 but not Windows 10. Windows 11 does have much higher hardware requirements (which can be worked around but that’s another story).
Unless it’s just due to performance reasons, e.g. I had an old Intel Atom device that ran Windows 8 very smoothly, but Windows 10 was extremely sluggish on it.
1.27.0 should be good. See here:
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Yeah but golang officially stopped supporting Win < 10 earlier. This was just the obvious breakage that broke everything, there’s no validation that everything else works fine when running a go runtime in an untested environment. Everyone is free to try it out though, but I wouldn’t want to stand for it.
I ran 1.27 for a long time on windows 7 (since it was released) before retiring that machine only 2-3 months ago.
I’d bank on 1.27 on windows 7 and coexisting with 1.30 machines on windows 11 before going all the way back to 1.23.
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Technically, if you use the older Go compiler, you could also build even some newer versions of Syncthing and they would work fine on Windows 7/8.
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Wouldn’t it be better to run 1.27 on both for stability?
You can but I don’t think this is necessary.
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