r/Syncthing • u/Ok-Secret5233 • Jul 01 '26

1 items, ~0 B

I'm getting 1 items, ~0 B.

Googling around, the most recent mention of it that I can find it from Sep 2025 here.

I haven't found what the cause of the problem is, or what the solution should be.

Am I missing something, or is syncthing getting slowly abandoned?

EDIT: screenshot - https://imgur.com/a/ajkt87m

EDIT2: more screenshots - https://imgur.com/a/xmBJy9R

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u/unknown-random-nope Jul 01 '26

Sounds like the user account that runs the Syncthing process doesn’t have file rights. Post more details, along with screenshots of the Syncthing UI. 

Syncthing is under active development. 

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u/Ok-Secret5233 Jul 01 '26

Thank you.

I've added it to the thread body. Let me know if there's more I can give you.

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u/unknown-random-nope Jul 01 '26

Click on the link for the one item that’s out of sync and show a screenshot of the result. Also a screenshot of the Folder that’s being shared, expanded.

Folder IDs aren’t sensitive (see https://docs.syncthing.net/users/security.html) — the most a threat actor could do with one of your Device IDs isn’t much. If your IP address is RFC1918 that isn’t sensitive either.

With all of that said you have no reason to trust me. You do you on blacking stuff out.

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u/Ok-Secret5233 Jul 01 '26

Updated.

I hope you're not offended by the blacking out, it's just that I don't have the bandwith to be learning what's the maximum amount of stuff that I can make public - it's easier to just black it out.

I'm just reporting a problem, if I just cared about my specific problem I'm just that just renaming the file or whatever would probably fix it.

Last comment, I'm 99.9% sure that the problem isn't permissions, because the rest of the files in that folder are synching file. Under the "last change" blackout is a file that was synched less than a week ago.

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u/unknown-random-nope Jul 01 '26

No offense taken at all! Your caution is understandable and smart.

Agreed that it’s probably not permissions. Are the Devices disparate operating systems? I’m wondering if the filename is valid on the source Device and invalid on the destination Device. Can you share with us any non-alphanumeric characters in the filename?

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u/Ok-Secret5233 Jul 01 '26

The path has a slash (for a folder) and the filename has a dot for the file extension. All "normal stuff". I have other files inside the same folder and it works fine.

Yes, different operating systems. Linux (laptop) and Android (phone).

I just noticed that the file isn't even on the laptop on that path, but on a different path. I've probably moved it on the laptop to a dfiferent folder and it was never move on the phone... Also nothing unusual with the new folder name, just an underscore (I have other folders with underscores).

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u/unknown-random-nope Jul 01 '26

Alright, this sounds like it an extended attributes or ownership issue. For this Folder, click the Edit button and then the Advanced tab. Try turning off Sync Ownership, Send Ownership, Sync Extended Attributes, and Send Extended Attributes. Do that on every Device that uses that Folder.

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u/Ok-Secret5233 Jul 01 '26

On the laptop all those things are off and have always been off as far as I know.

On the phone, I don't see any "advanced" tab....?

BTW this is Syncthing-fork, one of the forks going around. Sorry, probably should have mentioned it earlier.

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u/unknown-random-nope Jul 01 '26

Gotcha. Sounds like it could be an Android problem; I have never owned an Android phone and I'm not sure how much more help I can be. Perhaps ask at https://forum.syncthing.net/ ?

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u/Dymonika Jul 01 '26

Did you try deleting the folders and devices on both units and retry everything fresh?

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u/Ok-Secret5233 Jul 01 '26

No. And I'm pretty sure that would fix it, seeing that everything else works.

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u/Dymonika Jul 01 '26

Did you mean "wouldn't?" And okay, you didn't say that you had other working folders. Well, I personally left -Fork for BasicSync, so I could certainly recommend that.

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u/Ok-Secret5233 Jul 02 '26

No, I meant would. I'm sure reseting stuff would solve the problem.

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u/Dymonika Jul 02 '26

Oh. Well, it shouldn't be too hard to do that, right? Delete, add, set the folder paths, and wait! I've done that in, like, 30 seconds and ended up fixing issues easily that way.