Hi, I’ve done several successful folder syncs between my Pixel 7 pro and my Pixel 1st gen phones. Now I’m trying to sync my wife’s Pixel 7a and the Pixel 1st gen and the files are not moving. They start and stop right away. The folder IDs match. But I’ve noticed that the 7a (source phone) won’t stop scanning the folder. Question, that folder has approx 50GB of photos in it. Is it just going to take a long time to scan that? I’ve been watching it for about an hour to no avail. I have a feeling something else is wrong but that’s all I can think of at the moment. When I click that scanning folder, syncthing asked me to install a compatible file manager. I thought Google Files was good (I didn’t have to on my 7 pro phone) but I did it anyway. Nothing, still scanning. Do I assume correctly that its not going to start freely transferring photos until it’s finished scanning? Any advice is appreciated!
You’ve got 50GB of photos on a device with limited performance. It makes sense to me that the initial scan would take a very long time. My understanding is that a Folder won’t start being synced until the initial scan is complete.
How many files are there in the folder specifically? If it’s 1000+ files located in the same directory, then scanning may take a very long time, i.e. at least several hours. This is a known limitation of using Syncthing on Android.
This is very helpful guys, thank you. I’ll look into other ways of transferring these photos.
The Problem with endless Scanning i have under macOS 14. Of course i waited some Days. I have set up the volume again.
What can i try? What else can I try?
Different operating system and likely also a different filesystem, so best to start a new thread with additional details including…
- How many files being synced.
- Types of files being synced.
- Applications other than Syncthing that are touching the files being synced.