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Catfriend1 / syncthing-android

Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.
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"Folder marker missing" after re-sharing a folder #1111

Closed wolfgang371 closed 3 months ago

wolfgang371 commented 3 months ago

Hi @Catfriend1, thanks for the great tool / fork!

Every time I set up a new mobile, I feel I always run in this issue, so maybe I need to report it today (I'm pretty sure that's an issue, but you never know).

  1. Let's say I have a folder on a server that I want to share. I tell the server to offer it to the client.
  2. In the web interface of the client, it shows up, I configure the path.
  3. Then I realize the app I want to share the files to creates another folder underneath...
  4. ... so I delete the shared folder in the syncthing client...
  5. ... unshare it at the server, wait a minute and share it again...
  6. ... so it shows up again on the client, this time I enter the right path.
  7. But now the client complains the folder marker is missing

I kept repeating the steps 3-7 a couple of times, so it's really persistent... Manually copying all files from the server (incl. .stfolder/) didn't help either, it just led to another complaint.

It seems there's still something in the client database that shouldn't be. The only way out that I found was to tell the client to reset its database. Then it worked like a charm.

I'm using (on the client)...

Catfriend1 commented 3 months ago

Hi Wolfgang,

Just a quick tip after I read this: Please use the app itself and not its Web UI to setup new folders on the phone. What you describe might be (core) Syncthing's safety mechanism, so nothing I could change/adjust from the android wrapper side.