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I've been using Syncthing for the past few days and it has been working flawlessly. One thing I haven't tried is syncing between Windows and UNIXes (macOS/Linux) - does anyone have experience around this? How do permissions work?


I have Windows, Android, and Linux devices in my shares, I've yet to encounter issues.

Someone indicated they did have issues if you do a case only rename between a case sensitive (Linux) system and a case insensitive (Windows/Mac) one. I've never done this myself, but I guess that's one to run into. Also the usual caveats with any program, like that you won't be able to sync con.py to a Windows system, regardless of which program you use.


Either perfectly or not at all depending on what you want to do. You get file contents, modification time, mode bits on *nix’s, and the read only bit on Windows.

So for you-to-you it’s seamless but if you want to sync shared-user directories then you lose most info.


I'm not sure what your concern is. Differences in how user space permissions are handled? You give synctjing read write access and it does its thing.




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