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by RussianCow 2655 days ago
I love it as well, but my one gripe with the Android app is that it does not support read/write sync on external storage (SD cards). This means, in my case, that I have to share photos from my phone in a read-only fashion. It's not a deal-breaker by any means, but it's annoying, because if I want to add photos to my collection that were obtained elsewhere (e.g. my underwater camera), I have to transfer those files to my phone first in order for them to properly propagate to all my other devices.

Here is the related issue: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/29

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I would suspect that if you reconfigure your SDCard to be internal storage then it will work again. This is a limit of Android permissions that happened a couple of major versions ago (I use a different tool for file transfer and I remember when it stopped being able to transfer files to external storage).
I suggest to use https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth... and setup the synced folder on the SD Card as a subdirectory of the app data folder. It's worked well with an old phone (until I replace it with one that no SD card but 128+ GB of storage)