Synchthing is, IMHO, the single most useful software tool I have ever used. In the past, when I needed to share something with another device I would send an e-mail to myself (my Inbox is full of mails 'from: me'), For small files I wouldn't even bother with Google Drive, because it is so slow and sometimes you just don't have an Internet connection. But now, with Syncthing, I'm finally able to keep a shared folder on all my devices. The fact it's free and open source is another big plus.
@@jothain There is Mobius Sync, yeah it is a paid app which kinda sucks but whatever, I don't think the main developers of Syncthing thought they could even figure out how to make Syncthing work on iOS, I remember reading threads on the Syncthing forums asking about iOS and for years the answer was always that the file structure of iOS was difficult to integrate with Syncthing to the point that they had no near term plans for developing Syncthing for iOS. Then one day Mobius Sync came out and it was like... oh ok nevermind now Syncthing works fine for iOS so long as you are willing to pay $4 or whatever for the app. There is a free Mobius Sync app version that can sync folders up to 20mb, this app is useful for syncing plain text files or using as a method for quickly and painlessly introducing two computers so they can sync files. Each device running Syncthing has an ID (long string of letters) and you need to enter that ID in to request a connection to that device in Syncthing. Normally this would require texting... emailing or some other copy-paste method of sending the key from one device to another... but the QR code reader lets you do it in 5 seconds flat. Once each computer is connected to your phone you can then introduce the two computers and you no longer need the phone in the picture, the file share between both your computers is direct at that point.
What’s your favourite feature or application on android that you can’t do on iOS? Asking as an apple fan boy but also knows Linux as desktop due to my work
@@weiguo9887 1. Syncing files and photos from computer (be it Mac/Linux/Windows). On android I can use Syncthing. 2. Joplin/Logseq notes syncing with computer, without any Cloud or NAS. 3. Respect the file creation date for photos without metadata. Very old pictures without picture metadata will be modified once transfered into iPhone and out. Android won't change the file creation date. 4. Calendar/Contacts syncing with NAS. iPhone can only do it with Nextcloud if your home network is exposed to the outside world and with https. This is totally not necessary on Android. I use NAS only in local network and never expose my port, so https is not necessary.
This is a great video -- plenty of options presented, along with a lot of recommendations that are obviously the result of a lot of testing, experimentation, and running down dead ends. Only commenting for the algorithm, but while I'm doing so I wanted to say thank you for saving a lot of people a tremendous amount of time by sharing this information. Best of luck on continued growth of your channel.
Very good introduction to syncthing. In the middle of your video I was having a hard time keeping track of all your OS switches between Ubuntu, Windows and Mac, because they all look the same to the unexperienced eye. Next time it might help your viewers if you could add a big fat text layer on top of your screencap video which shows what we're watching right now. Also it would help if you could highlight some menus or text boxes, which you're about to interact with, so your viewer's eyes can follow along more easily. Apart from that I really loved your well spoken explanations! Thank you!
Thank you for a very informative video 🙂! Just a quick comment on the ignore patterns - you don't need the first two ** in ***/*.tmp as the pattern is exactly the same as using just *.tmp. The two *** are only useful if you look inside a specific directory, e.g. dir1/**/*.tmp, which will find any *.tmp files inside dir1 and its subfolders.
30mins, every second is gold, absolutely 0 rubbish. And this is the kinda of video, i would download onto my pc, and archive it with syncthing installer, and send it to my friends. i started with resilo sync, but it wasn't quite reliable, until i found this gem software, and i am running synctrayzor coz i am lazy haha. the software works like a dream. came here to watch your video just to check have i missed any setting/tip/tricks, and sir i am not disappointed.
3:00 is one of those famous case studies for "Linux is great if you have zero respect for your time" Wanna know how do I run this thing in Windows? Double click on the icon - DONE.
Thanks for this. I was looking for a simple way to sync two computers on a private network and came across syncthing, but all the other videos and articles I read were aimed at more experienced users. You video is, as far as I can tell, unique in that you cover what someone like me needs to know and then go on to more sophisticated uses. If this is a typical example of your teaching style, you're great at it!
This is the best tutorial on Syncthing to date! Instead of exposing mine to the internet however, I use tailscale to make a private mesh VPN between my devices and the devices behave as if they're all on the same LAN.
That was massively helpful. I already have my phone synced to my desktop. But I did a very rudimentary job of it. You definitely showed me how I can do it properly.
And for those using it in a windows server, tcp port 22000 needs to be manually opened in 100% of the situations i ran into in order for it to work properly. Sometimes you also need to have static IPs and have them set up to the correct IP and port instead of it being dynamic in syncthing
Everything done in the GUI is modifying the config file. The format and typical locations can be found here: docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html#config-file-format One option you can use is to temporarily enable remote access so you can fire up the GUI from another computer and then disable it once config is done. The other option is to use the SSH tunnel approach shown in the video to access the the GUI on the headless box from a laptop.
Can you also sync drives with this tool? I'm looking for such thing, I have a system with a RAID0 configuration from 2 SATA SSDs, so I want to make backups in real time from that striped volume, to an external USB-C SSD. Would be great.
One of the best videos I have watched (ever), great explanations and how to get started... thank you! I'm moving from paid Sugarsync that has become problematic to syncthing next!
Hi. I've got a problem with Syncthing when syncing my shared folder between Windows and macOS. All the .DS_Store files cause Windows (source) to give the error message: "Error: pull: no such file". Have you ever experienced that issue? Have you got a .stignore file with (?d).DS_Store in it? Thanks.
What if I forgot the Password? I can access the control page on the control device but I want to also access it from my windows PC. Now I am asked for a USER-NAME and PASSWORD... Where exactly can I see them on the control device?
I'm attempting to install on my Win10 desktop and Win11 laptop. On the desktop when I enter localhost:8384 it works but when I enter it on my laptop I get "This site can't be reached localhost refused to connect" ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED I ran a google search for the error but did not find anything that resolved the issue. A lot of this is very confusing for me, thus the real issue may be me. I found the video super helpful but at times the speech and cursor movement was difficult for me to follow. I had to play several sections numerous times before I understood. Sorry but I'm old and have problems grasping some of the concepts.
Great Video! What do you think to expose your NAS with a reverse report Proxy and connect / mount it to the Apple Drive app (don’t know the english name)? Then you still have full access without ICloud.
😁 Easily one of the best videos on Syncthing I've come across, thank you. If I were to connect my family member's (not on my home network.) phones for syncing on my pc, would it appear (to my internet provider) that I'm running a server? I've already had my internet temporarily disconnected by my provider for testing servers, and really don't want to have to go through that process again. It seems that my provider is not learning friendly, and I'm not ready to upgrade to a business plan (+30/mth) just for learning/experimenting. I do eventually plan on moving over to a vps, but after a bit more studying.
Great video. But connecting machines via an exposed port is unnecessary risky IMO. Connecting them with tailscale or any other VPN would be a lot more secure and you can easily connect devices directly. Since syncthing doesn't need to be accessed buy public devices (and if it does, it means you have already installed syncthing on it, why not install your VPN as well) and there are no foreigners accessing it. Therefore, no reasing to make it publicly accessible.
Great video again. If would be great if you can fool some software that only has dropbox integration for cloud syncing that it can be used with syncthing. Thus making it believe it syncs to dropbox while you are using syncthing.
I wish it had a feature like torrent does where you can pick which files inside each shared folder that you want to actually download. Because let's say you have a big video library with say 10+TB, you don't want to have to sync the entire 10TB, you'd want to be able to see the whole folder structure but pick and choose which videos they want to download. edit: it seems the feature I'm describing is referred to as "Selective Sync" but isn't supported
Thanks for the super well explained video - i have been looking for a good alternative to reslio sync for yeears but was too lazy - this is a perfect solution!
This is great!! Thank you! Question, I'm reading that on Windows if you don't install as local user you get permission errors when trying to share folders that aren't in default folder location, do you know how to get around that?
I watched this video first and then watched others. I only watched maybe 2 minutes each of other content before moving on to the next one because they weren’t up to snuff compared to this one.
mmm, thank you for your video, what I was looking for was synchronising a folder to the same folder on multiple devices, more like propagating files to the same folder on those remote PC's. What I see from this is folders being copied/backed up between remote devices, or am I missing something here>
Bro this thing is so powerful bro everytime i go out of my house ive got my obsidian workspace, my music, my tachiyomi/tachidesk in my phone synced from my computer damn this is awesome and its free ive already donated to syncthing
Is there any update or better workaround for IOS devices? I just found syncthing and it seems to work great for my android phone but now I'm trying to get my wife's iphone to sync so we don't have to use amazon photos or buy mor icloud storage. Thanks
I know this is an old video but someone told me to watch this so I can sync my phone pictures and video and they will go straight to my windows PC? I will watch later when I have more time.
This software sounds like what I need. I have a race car trailer with its own network one desktop one tablet and one laptop. This network is not online, when at home this network is plugged into my home network which is online but being wired the difference in ip addresses doesn't affect the trailer. These 4 systems all have the same software to analyze Car ECU data. All units can connect to car by Bluetooth but only one at a time. The Tablet acts as a dashboard and records run data but is too small to read all the boards for changing things, so desktop is used for that in the trailer the laptop to do the same but outside by the car. How should I setup syncthing for this. All windows two W11 and two W10. Can you help?
Once you add a device in local network, will the syncing work when two device are in different networks without extra steps with SSH? For example, a computer at home and a phone at work?
Can this software start as a service on windows server?When I start the computer and don't log in to Windows Server, will it automatically synchronize data?
Why do people think it is cool to constantly change the camera angle. It is distracting. I came here to learn about Syncthing not to look at you from different angles.
It's not easy lol... I tried to sync 3 folders from my phone to 2 macbooks that I use... but I wanted 2 of those folders from the phone being synced to a certain folder on the macbooks and the third folder to be synced to another folder on both macbooks but every folder from my phone gets synced to all folders
this is the greatest software i've just come across still learning the nuances literally can be used for a work around to sync your obsidian via android to pc and so far its works sorta seamless since all these stupid cloud services like drive onenote via your phone don't allow you to sync folder directories with in a folder. But Syncthing fills this gap
Got everything installed on both pc but neither one will show me device ID in the list when I go to add a remote machine. Been trying for two days to fix this. Anyone please help.
How would I add to sub folders of a master folder e.g i collect art and in the art master folder i have 3 sub folders i want my laptop and my PC to have all the files synced up but i have my phone but i sync the master folder and on my phone i collect said art but i want to send only to sub folders i want to manually sort the images but i only want to send only it causes a lot of errors when i sync the sub folders directly to my phone to both my laptop and PC to my phone should i just allow my phone to edit one device and let the PC and laptop sync the "art" master folder?
Good tutorial and good intro. The challange I see with syncthing is an easy working system to restore files in case you need them. it gets confusing with the browser interface
Wow, great video, I just found out about your channel by watching this video, I've seen others Syncthing video/tutorial, but what you said is the most detailed and then the working principle is also said. Because this kind of video shows the user's knowledge points and how to use them, I like this kind of comprehensive video the best, I hope your channel will get better and better. 👍
i was hoping for some more clever topology. nice tutorial nonetheless. all the asking for permissions seem like a pain in the neck. maybe i'll just set up an ftp server
I had trouble with the SyncTrazor. The issue was about the versions of the synching. But your video covered the topic so well that I could follow all the steps from the beginning to finally sync a folder successfully on my PC and on my Android phone. I can't thank you enough. The sync is seamless and instantaneous. Thank you very much, dear TechCraft. I have liked and shared the video and looking for other videos on the channel. If I find them useful, I'll subscribe to the channel right away.
any way to set up push notifications so you know a sync job is complete i have yet to be able to figure that out natively or through a 3rd party application
this is not working for me. i save changes to a file but i dont see the changes in the other device. and i closed my browser so how do i access the "interface" again?
I've been using this for about 3 years now, and it's amazing. My only 2 complaints are no ios support, and no elective syncing, if you have one big nas folder instead of multiple separate shares
@@tech_craft unfortunately it is what it is. Apple has an iron grip over the fs, and it'll never release. I've considered switching to nextcloud because of this, in case I do get an iPhone eventually, but it's just not the same, and doesn't run very well (in my experience)
How do you find the special iCloud drive pass? Your example doesn’t appear to be a URL so do I have to install iCloud for windows or have a MacBook Pro to find it? The informative video.
It requires iCloud to be installed on the machine. On Windows, I have very little experience I'm afraid but I imagine that iCloud works a little like Dropbox does and makes some folder available that you can link to SyncThing.
Staggered file versioning seems impractical for anything that is more than a couple of MB. Say you enable it on a folder 1GB in size... so in the first day it will increase to 25GB, and during the month it will be 31 GB, and stay that way?
Thanks. I have done that for a while and it's certainly a fine option.The main downside is that syncing via a relay is quite a bit slower and it got a bit frustrating. With a NAS as a central sync point, I only needed to open up one port. Another option mentioned in an another comment is to use a VPN like Zerotier or (in my case) Tailscale. I have that set up too, but I've found battery life on mobile devices to be quite bad so having the port open, the relay and the VPN gives me options.
You don't need an iOS app. Share one of your synced folders (i.e., the one on a desktop machine) and connect to it from the "Files" app on your iPhone using "Connect to Server." I use a VPN. It's blazing fast and syncs fast.
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You. Sir, are magnificent. As a complete and very ungifted noob I've fought with this for MONTHS and was ready to give up. Now, after barely an hour(!!!) I have fully functional sync between Win, LX, Mac and Androids with no lose ends (ah, well, almost no lose ends). Grand Merci!!!
This is amazing.. really! i asked my wife if i should just pay for obsidian notes "sync" feature.. she said "you must just take notes some other way" And i guess i could. using google docs or something But then i found this... oh my god. Syncthing is amazing - when it's been set up. The guide on the official page is more or less non-existent. Thank you for this video. Saving me 10 bucks per month!
Synchthing is, IMHO, the single most useful software tool I have ever used. In the past, when I needed to share something with another device I would send an e-mail to myself (my Inbox is full of mails 'from: me'), For small files I wouldn't even bother with Google Drive, because it is so slow and sometimes you just don't have an Internet connection. But now, with Syncthing, I'm finally able to keep a shared folder on all my devices. The fact it's free and open source is another big plus.
So true, I think about how easy things would've been if I knew about it sooner.
im so glad i discovered this than sticking with icloud
It doesn't work on iOS.
@@jothain There is Mobius Sync, yeah it is a paid app which kinda sucks but whatever, I don't think the main developers of Syncthing thought they could even figure out how to make Syncthing work on iOS, I remember reading threads on the Syncthing forums asking about iOS and for years the answer was always that the file structure of iOS was difficult to integrate with Syncthing to the point that they had no near term plans for developing Syncthing for iOS.
Then one day Mobius Sync came out and it was like... oh ok nevermind now Syncthing works fine for iOS so long as you are willing to pay $4 or whatever for the app.
There is a free Mobius Sync app version that can sync folders up to 20mb, this app is useful for syncing plain text files or using as a method for quickly and painlessly introducing two computers so they can sync files. Each device running Syncthing has an ID (long string of letters) and you need to enter that ID in to request a connection to that device in Syncthing. Normally this would require texting... emailing or some other copy-paste method of sending the key from one device to another... but the QR code reader lets you do it in 5 seconds flat. Once each computer is connected to your phone you can then introduce the two computers and you no longer need the phone in the picture, the file share between both your computers is direct at that point.
The more I learn about these linux software, the more I feel my iPhone is absolutely a piece of trash.
Switched from ip15 pro to google pixel 8 and never looked back
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What’s your favourite feature or application on android that you can’t do on iOS? Asking as an apple fan boy but also knows Linux as desktop due to my work
@@weiguo9887 1. Syncing files and photos from computer (be it Mac/Linux/Windows). On android I can use Syncthing.
2. Joplin/Logseq notes syncing with computer, without any Cloud or NAS.
3. Respect the file creation date for photos without metadata. Very old pictures without picture metadata will be modified once transfered into iPhone and out. Android won't change the file creation date.
4. Calendar/Contacts syncing with NAS. iPhone can only do it with Nextcloud if your home network is exposed to the outside world and with https. This is totally not necessary on Android. I use NAS only in local network and never expose my port, so https is not necessary.
@@weiguo9887 synthing it is.
This is a great video -- plenty of options presented, along with a lot of recommendations that are obviously the result of a lot of testing, experimentation, and running down dead ends. Only commenting for the algorithm, but while I'm doing so I wanted to say thank you for saving a lot of people a tremendous amount of time by sharing this information. Best of luck on continued growth of your channel.
Very good introduction to syncthing. In the middle of your video I was having a hard time keeping track of all your OS switches between Ubuntu, Windows and Mac, because they all look the same to the unexperienced eye. Next time it might help your viewers if you could add a big fat text layer on top of your screencap video which shows what we're watching right now. Also it would help if you could highlight some menus or text boxes, which you're about to interact with, so your viewer's eyes can follow along more easily. Apart from that I really loved your well spoken explanations! Thank you!
I've watched several videos on setting up syncthing. Yours is by far the most comprehensive and clear. Thanks!
Does ituse the internet bandwidth??
I mean cvonsume the limited capacity of gb ??
Thank you for a very informative video 🙂! Just a quick comment on the ignore patterns - you don't need the first two ** in ***/*.tmp as the pattern is exactly the same as using just *.tmp. The two *** are only useful if you look inside a specific directory, e.g. dir1/**/*.tmp, which will find any *.tmp files inside dir1 and its subfolders.
Is it ** or .* (I know in grep wildcard is .* - Zero or more occurrences of any single character)
30mins, every second is gold, absolutely 0 rubbish. And this is the kinda of video, i would download onto my pc, and archive it with syncthing installer, and send it to my friends.
i started with resilo sync, but it wasn't quite reliable, until i found this gem software, and i am running synctrayzor coz i am lazy haha. the software works like a dream.
came here to watch your video just to check have i missed any setting/tip/tricks, and sir i am not disappointed.
3:00 is one of those famous case studies for "Linux is great if you have zero respect for your time"
Wanna know how do I run this thing in Windows? Double click on the icon - DONE.
Thanks for this. I was looking for a simple way to sync two computers on a private network and came across syncthing, but all the other videos and articles I read were aimed at more experienced users. You video is, as far as I can tell, unique in that you cover what someone like me needs to know and then go on to more sophisticated uses. If this is a typical example of your teaching style, you're great at it!
Best SyncThing Tutorial I have seen thus far. Well done. Thank you for this great tutorial.
This is the best tutorial on Syncthing to date! Instead of exposing mine to the internet however, I use tailscale to make a private mesh VPN between my devices and the devices behave as if they're all on the same LAN.
That was massively helpful. I already have my phone synced to my desktop. But I did a very rudimentary job of it. You definitely showed me how I can do it properly.
And for those using it in a windows server, tcp port 22000 needs to be manually opened in 100% of the situations i ran into in order for it to work properly. Sometimes you also need to have static IPs and have them set up to the correct IP and port instead of it being dynamic in syncthing
Definitely the best explanation I have seen for Syncthing. Thank you.
Oh man , your tutorial is amazingly easy to understand , I’ll definitely use your video to help my friends set up Syncthing.
Thanks.
great video but its all GUI. How do you establish a remote connection to a non GUI Debian 10 box remotely? Thanks in advance
Everything done in the GUI is modifying the config file. The format and typical locations can be found here: docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html#config-file-format
One option you can use is to temporarily enable remote access so you can fire up the GUI from another computer and then disable it once config is done.
The other option is to use the SSH tunnel approach shown in the video to access the the GUI on the headless box from a laptop.
Thank you for this tutorial. It has been very helpful for my commercial projects.
Excellent video! Do you need to port forward and disable relaying on each machine or just one of the two? Also is it ok to leave Global Discovery on?
Can you also sync drives with this tool? I'm looking for such thing, I have a system with a RAID0 configuration from 2 SATA SSDs, so I want to make backups in real time from that striped volume, to an external USB-C SSD. Would be great.
I still dont understand what are the benifts of P2P syncing compared to the traditional client-server approach
One of the best videos I have watched (ever), great explanations and how to get started... thank you! I'm moving from paid Sugarsync that has become problematic to syncthing next!
Hi. I've got a problem with Syncthing when syncing my shared folder between Windows and macOS. All the .DS_Store files cause Windows (source) to give the error message: "Error: pull: no such file". Have you ever experienced that issue? Have you got a .stignore file with (?d).DS_Store in it? Thanks.
What if I forgot the Password? I can access the control page on the control device but I want to also access it from my windows PC. Now I am asked for a USER-NAME and PASSWORD... Where exactly can I see them on the control device?
do you have SyncThing installed on your NAS? If not, how do you SyncThing on Windows or uBuntu communicate with NAS drive?
I'm attempting to install on my Win10 desktop and Win11 laptop. On the desktop when I enter localhost:8384 it works but when I enter it on my laptop I get "This site can't be reached localhost refused to connect" ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED I ran a google search for the error but did not find anything that resolved the issue. A lot of this is very confusing for me, thus the real issue may be me.
I found the video super helpful but at times the speech and cursor movement was difficult for me to follow. I had to play several sections numerous times before I understood. Sorry but I'm old and have problems grasping some of the concepts.
Great Video! What do you think to expose your NAS with a reverse report Proxy and connect / mount it to the Apple Drive app (don’t know the english name)? Then you still have full access without ICloud.
😁 Easily one of the best videos on Syncthing I've come across, thank you. If I were to connect my family member's (not on my home network.) phones for syncing on my pc, would it appear (to my internet provider) that I'm running a server? I've already had my internet temporarily disconnected by my provider for testing servers, and really don't want to have to go through that process again. It seems that my provider is not learning friendly, and I'm not ready to upgrade to a business plan (+30/mth) just for learning/experimenting. I do eventually plan on moving over to a vps, but after a bit more studying.
Great video. But connecting machines via an exposed port is unnecessary risky IMO. Connecting them with tailscale or any other VPN would be a lot more secure and you can easily connect devices directly.
Since syncthing doesn't need to be accessed buy public devices (and if it does, it means you have already installed syncthing on it, why not install your VPN as well) and there are no foreigners accessing it. Therefore, no reasing to make it publicly accessible.
Great video again. If would be great if you can fool some software that only has dropbox integration for cloud syncing that it can be used with syncthing. Thus making it believe it syncs to dropbox while you are using syncthing.
I wish it had a feature like torrent does where you can pick which files inside each shared folder that you want to actually download. Because let's say you have a big video library with say 10+TB, you don't want to have to sync the entire 10TB, you'd want to be able to see the whole folder structure but pick and choose which videos they want to download.
edit: it seems the feature I'm describing is referred to as "Selective Sync" but isn't supported
With my photography and CG work I want to enable versioning but am afraid it will go through and make a million copies and fill all the space up :)
jesus christ why is even starting a program so hard on linux...
Thanks for the super well explained video - i have been looking for a good alternative to reslio sync for yeears but was too lazy - this is a perfect solution!
This is great!! Thank you! Question, I'm reading that on Windows if you don't install as local user you get permission errors when trying to share folders that aren't in default folder location, do you know how to get around that?
I watched this video first and then watched others. I only watched maybe 2 minutes each of other content before moving on to the next one because they weren’t up to snuff compared to this one.
mmm, thank you for your video, what I was looking for was synchronising a folder to the same folder on multiple devices, more like propagating files to the same folder on those remote PC's.
What I see from this is folders being copied/backed up between remote devices, or am I missing something here>
For Windows, I see the firewall popup that you need to allow. If you don't have admin rights, you can't use the program. Is there alternative program?
Bro this thing is so powerful bro everytime i go out of my house ive got my obsidian workspace, my music, my tachiyomi/tachidesk in my phone synced from my computer damn this is awesome and its free ive already donated to syncthing
Is there any update or better workaround for IOS devices? I just found syncthing and it seems to work great for my android phone but now I'm trying to get my wife's iphone to sync so we don't have to use amazon photos or buy mor icloud storage. Thanks
I know this is an old video but someone told me to watch this so I can sync my phone pictures and video and they will go straight to my windows PC? I will watch later when I have more time.
This software sounds like what I need. I have a race car trailer with its own network one desktop one tablet and one laptop. This network is not online, when at home this network is plugged into my home network which is online but being wired the difference in ip addresses doesn't affect the trailer. These 4 systems all have the same software to analyze Car ECU data. All units can connect to car by Bluetooth but only one at a time. The Tablet acts as a dashboard and records run data but is too small to read all the boards for changing things, so desktop is used for that in the trailer the laptop to do the same but outside by the car. How should I setup syncthing for this. All windows two W11 and two W10. Can you help?
Too little subs for such high quality content. Keep it up! Great work! Thank you, saved me from reading docs.
Good work. No useless blurbs, just clear instructions. Thanks
iCloud works the same unlike Google Drive and One Drive
Your channel has become my IT notebook, whatever I need related to IT is in your videos, thank you so much for the effort
That's very nice to hear!
Once you add a device in local network, will the syncing work when two device are in different networks without extra steps with SSH? For example, a computer at home and a phone at work?
I have my system working but my speeds are quite slow.
Can this software start as a service on windows server?When I start the computer and don't log in to Windows Server, will it automatically synchronize data?
Why forward ports? Why not use tailscale or zerotier and put all the devices on the same network? I feel like that is much safer.
thank you that was very helpful, I was kinda scared of using p2p sync but I got basic idea of how to use it
Fantastic video, would be great if you could do another for a win 10 pc to another win 10 pc and say an android phone.
Why do people think it is cool to constantly change the camera angle. It is distracting. I came here to learn about Syncthing not to look at you from different angles.
It's not easy lol... I tried to sync 3 folders from my phone to 2 macbooks that I use... but I wanted 2 of those folders from the phone being synced to a certain folder on the macbooks and the third folder to be synced to another folder on both macbooks but every folder from my phone gets synced to all folders
this is the greatest software i've just come across still learning the nuances literally can be used for a work around to sync your obsidian via android to pc and so far its works sorta seamless since all these stupid cloud services like drive onenote via your phone don't allow you to sync folder directories with in a folder. But Syncthing fills this gap
Have you tried to figure out how to use Syncthing with a Netgear ReadyNAS?
hearing your struggle with the IOS, makes me more happy of staying away of the apple mess.
01:45 "encrypted at rest" is meaningless if *you* aren't the only one managing the keys
Got everything installed on both pc but neither one will show me device ID in the list when I go to add a remote machine. Been trying for two days to fix this. Anyone please help.
How would I add to sub folders of a master folder e.g i collect art and in the art master folder i have 3 sub folders i want my laptop and my PC to have all the files synced up but i have my phone but i sync the master folder and on my phone i collect said art but i want to send only to sub folders i want to manually sort the images but i only want to send only it causes a lot of errors when i sync the sub folders directly to my phone to both my laptop and PC to my phone should i just allow my phone to edit one device and let the PC and laptop sync the "art" master folder?
May you please explain how to use nextcloud on iOS for this purpose?
Good tutorial and good intro. The challange I see with syncthing is an easy working system to restore files in case you need them. it gets confusing with the browser interface
17:16 after the temp file disappears and is essentially deleted from the source folder, wouldn't that deletion be mirrored on the other two machines?
Wow, great video, I just found out about your channel by watching this video, I've seen others Syncthing video/tutorial, but what you said is the most detailed and then the working principle is also said. Because this kind of video shows the user's knowledge points and how to use them, I like this kind of comprehensive video the best, I hope your channel will get better and better. 👍
i was hoping for some more clever topology. nice tutorial nonetheless. all the asking for permissions seem like a pain in the neck. maybe i'll just set up an ftp server
I had trouble with the SyncTrazor. The issue was about the versions of the synching. But your video covered the topic so well that I could follow all the steps from the beginning to finally sync a folder successfully on my PC and on my Android phone. I can't thank you enough. The sync is seamless and instantaneous. Thank you very much, dear TechCraft. I have liked and shared the video and looking for other videos on the channel. If I find them useful, I'll subscribe to the channel right away.
any way to set up push notifications so you know a sync job is complete i have yet to be able to figure that out natively or through a 3rd party application
Great video and software, thank you.
i followed the instructions after i installed and opened didnt showed up on my mac right corner, what can be the issue?
tailscale and syncthing together are a deadly combo :)
You deserve more subscribers. I'll do my part.
it would be nice to compare Rclone with Syncthing
this is not working for me. i save changes to a file but i dont see the changes in the other device. and i closed my browser so how do i access the "interface" again?
I've been using this for about 3 years now, and it's amazing. My only 2 complaints are no ios support, and no elective syncing, if you have one big nas folder instead of multiple separate shares
If and when iOS support arrives it will be killer. It’s one of those projects I wish I had the time to take a run at myself.
@@tech_craft unfortunately it is what it is. Apple has an iron grip over the fs, and it'll never release.
I've considered switching to nextcloud because of this, in case I do get an iPhone eventually, but it's just not the same, and doesn't run very well (in my experience)
how is freesync for nas elective syncing?
Use Möbius Sync which is based on syncthing. This works at least on my iPad flawlessly
@@tech_craftdoes auto synce work on ios to synthing.
Brilliant tutorial. Thank you.
How do you find the special iCloud drive pass?
Your example doesn’t appear to be a URL so do I have to install iCloud for windows or have a MacBook Pro to find it? The informative video.
It requires iCloud to be installed on the machine. On Windows, I have very little experience I'm afraid but I imagine that iCloud works a little like Dropbox does and makes some folder available that you can link to SyncThing.
How can you find directory in ios?
Staggered file versioning seems impractical for anything that is more than a couple of MB.
Say you enable it on a folder 1GB in size... so in the first day it will increase to 25GB, and during the month it will be 31 GB, and stay that way?
It won’t create snapshots if the files don’t change so it’s only as bad as you say if you’re constantly changing all the files.
There's got to be something easier. lol
Great vid, thanks a bunch
I’m not getting the notification on the other device to connect them
Great video Rob, wouldn't it make more sense to host your own relay rather than all the port forwarding?
Thanks. I have done that for a while and it's certainly a fine option.The main downside is that syncing via a relay is quite a bit slower and it got a bit frustrating. With a NAS as a central sync point, I only needed to open up one port.
Another option mentioned in an another comment is to use a VPN like Zerotier or (in my case) Tailscale. I have that set up too, but I've found battery life on mobile devices to be quite bad so having the port open, the relay and the VPN gives me options.
PHP and Java Bean -- are synched already!
Hello you sir are a legend!
thank you, great video
Very helpful thanks
I use this software so Much. I love it
what if you dont have a static IP at home ?
I've been using Syncthing haphazardly for a couple of years, this opened my eyes to what I've NOT been doing well :)
Great coverage!
"Ugh, I don't want to watch a half hour of....wait...huh...that's really interesting."
Nicely done.
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this my 1st video i watch from your channel. amazing. your channel name suit well for this video
Good video. A really helpful thing would have been to make it clearer which machine we were looking at on each switch
Good suggestion!
The SSH tunneling command is very helpful. Thanks!
Very well done. i just recently buit a server (W10 pc) and will use this as backup solution over Ethernet. Subscribed. -Dino
You don't need an iOS app. Share one of your synced folders (i.e., the one on a desktop machine) and connect to it from the "Files" app on your iPhone using "Connect to Server." I use a VPN. It's blazing fast and syncs fast.
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You. Sir, are magnificent. As a complete and very ungifted noob I've fought with this for MONTHS and was ready to give up. Now, after barely an hour(!!!) I have fully functional sync between Win, LX, Mac and Androids with no lose ends (ah, well, almost no lose ends). Grand Merci!!!
Great video
Thank you! 🙂
This is amazing.. really!
i asked my wife if i should just pay for obsidian notes "sync" feature.. she said "you must just take notes some other way"
And i guess i could. using google docs or something
But then i found this... oh my god. Syncthing is amazing - when it's been set up. The guide on the official page is more or less non-existent. Thank you for this video. Saving me 10 bucks per month!