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What are you non-obvious, maybe strange usecases of Syncthing?

For example syncing the media library with your friend or maybe your entire /home/user folder between your PC and laptop?

I'd love to hear your ideas!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Installation on phone from F-droid (Syncthing-fork) gives a 1-way share of your Camera to backup to PC whenever you get back home. That's my top usecase... Together with syncing KeePass database since long ago too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a keepass database synced between a phone, desktop and a Raspberry Pi 1. The Pi just sits as an always-on server. I don't edit it on my phone. Here's my problem: when I edit something on my desktop and save it I invariably get a file conflict error and have to force the Pi to accept the new 'conflicted' file from my desktop. Any idea why? It's incredibly annoying!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you need to set up database syncronization in keepass. I had this issue for a bit until I enabled this. Basically you set a copy that's synced with syncthing outside of your keepass folder, then another copy that keepass edits directly. Then you can set it up so that when it saves the database in keepass it will sync the edits in the one that's mirrored y syncthing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you, i'm going to look into this!