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by xtracto 1387 days ago
OMG I tried to setup SyncThing a couple of months ago to sync my KeePassX (kdbx) between my PC, my MAC and my Android phone. It was hell, I had to fight SyncThing every step of the way (connecting between clients, which one is the receiver and which one is the sender and whatnot), and it just didn't sync. In addition I learned that in Android SyncThing cannot sync to an external SD card ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366 ) .

I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly.
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n4r9 1387 days ago
It works just fine for my PC, laptop and Android. Shame that you had a bad experience with it although perhaps your use case is a bit unusual. Although that's surprising about Android being so difficult to work with in Go. It sounds like this is being resolved in Android 10 upwards: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent...
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david_allison 1387 days ago
> In addition I learned that in Android SyncThing cannot sync to an external SD card ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366 ) .

This should be fixed: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/pull/1724

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witrak 1386 days ago
>I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly.

Besides my general distrust of Google, the real source of my headache is the ransomware attack. Thus such a simple schema is unsatisfactory. And the proper automatic backup procedure needs noninteractive testing whether the cloud copy is not garbled. Until now I don't know how to do it so I make backups of my Dropbox copy by hand.

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stjohnswarts 1387 days ago
I remember trying something similar and I kept getting weird results like repeated folders that didn't sync and then when they would I'd have 2 copies of somethign not knowing which I should keep. Maybe it's gotten better a couple years later?
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