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Syncthing is great, I've used it for years to sync all my stuff and it has always been solid. I even use it on my kindle fire tablet (there's a Syncthing app in F-droid).

My only annoyance with Syncthing is when I reinstall an OS on one of my machines. Let's say I'm syncing files between my main workstation, two laptops, a phone, and a cloud backup. Now I want to reinstall the OS on one of the laptops. When I install syncthing on that machine, it gets a new ID. I can make it join the sync swarm but all the other members will think it's a new machine and won't trust it so I have to go to each of the other machines and manually remove the "old" laptop and bring in the "new" one.



There's an option to automagically add devices from other, trusted devices.

I simply save the syncthing config and remove the database, so that the device stays the same, but doesn't retain any sync data


Yeah, my primary workstation and home server are configured as "introducer" devices, so they'll propagate devices to anything else.


I keep a backup of Syncthing configs and then re-use it. Config.xml can even be manually edited to fix directory paths.

~/.config/syncthing in Linux, the pem files and config.xml. Similarly in Windows too (from C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Syncthing). Even in Android, you can export and back-up. When you are switching to new device, copy from the back-up and then import.




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