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This was actually the question I had when I decided to try Syncthing again a few months ago. I've been using it for a while now, and though I feel there's room

by aban 10y ago

This was actually the question I had when I decided to try Syncthing again a few months ago. I've been using it for a while now, and though I feel there's room for improvement, it's definitely much more reliable than it used to be before and I haven't had to restart the daemon multiple times. As for your second question about instant syncing, there's syncthing-inotify [0] which detects file changes immediately (instead of 60 second rescan interval), but I haven't tried it yet. For syncing outside your local network, Syncthing supports relaying, which I linked in my previous comment. [0]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-inotify https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-inotify

dragly 10y ago
syncthing-inotify works great! I have been running Syncthing with this plugin for about a month now and I haven't had any problems with it. I started using Syncthing for some of my projects after Dropbox stopped syncing files without notice for the third time. The failed Dropbox syncs were related to either C++ or Doconce+LaTeX projects where many temporary build files were being modified often. Syncthing doesn't seem to have a problem with these files, and it is even possible to configure Syncthing to ignore specific file patterns if you just don't want it to sync such files at all.
- radarsat1 10y ago
  Are building software in your dropbox folder? I mean, it should work, I guess.. but why on earth..
  - wernercd 10y ago
    Yeah... is there a "gitignore" option for dropbox or alternatives (like Syncthing)? I mean... there's a certain point where you are now syncronizing "crap" that shouldn't be needed (bin/obj/etc)...
    - Nutomic 10y ago
      Syncthing has the .stignore file: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
  - dragly 10y ago
    It isn't optimal, but it used to work. I kept C++ projects on Dropbox in addition to Git because I work on multiple computers and want to be able to continue where I left off if I get interrupted. I don't like the idea of having to commit and push to git for all work in progress, even if it is on a separate branch. The default setup in Qt Creator is to have a build folder next to the sources, but after the first big sync failure I configured Qt Creator to always build outside of Dropbox. But I experienced failed syncs after that, even with only C++ sources inside Dropbox and when building Doconce+LaTeX projects.

by aban 10y ago

dragly 10y ago

syncthing-inotify works great! I have been running Syncthing with this plugin for about a month now and I haven't had any problems with it. I started using Syncthing for some of my projects after Dropbox stopped syncing files without notice for the third time. The failed Dropbox syncs were related to either C++ or Doconce+LaTeX projects where many temporary build files were being modified often. Syncthing doesn't seem to have a problem with these files, and it is even possible to configure Syncthing to ignore specific file patterns if you just don't want it to sync such files at all.

radarsat1 10y ago
Are building software in your dropbox folder? I mean, it should work, I guess.. but why on earth..
- wernercd 10y ago
  Yeah... is there a "gitignore" option for dropbox or alternatives (like Syncthing)? I mean... there's a certain point where you are now syncronizing "crap" that shouldn't be needed (bin/obj/etc)...
  - Nutomic 10y ago
    Syncthing has the .stignore file: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
- dragly 10y ago
  It isn't optimal, but it used to work. I kept C++ projects on Dropbox in addition to Git because I work on multiple computers and want to be able to continue where I left off if I get interrupted. I don't like the idea of having to commit and push to git for all work in progress, even if it is on a separate branch. The default setup in Qt Creator is to have a build folder next to the sources, but after the first big sync failure I configured Qt Creator to always build outside of Dropbox. But I experienced failed syncs after that, even with only C++ sources inside Dropbox and when building Doconce+LaTeX projects.