Spyke
lemmy.fmhy.ml

New to Syncthing and have been using it to sync between my 2 android devices. Is it possible to sync the same folder to a PC as well?

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As far as I know there is no limit on the number of devices you can sync. So yes it is possible to sync a folder on multiple devices and not only 2.

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slazer2aureply
lemmy.world

I can confirm this is possible. In the past I had a folder synced between my android phone, android tablet, and windows PC.

The only issue is you need a full mesh sync unless I set something up wrong.

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TwinTurboreply
lemmy.world

You don't need every device to be able to talk to every device. As long as devices don't become isolated, changes are eventually propagated to all copies, even if not all in one step.

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And having a central node as an introducer makes all devices connect to each other effortlessly.

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You can do multi-way sync, and many things sharing the same sync folder. Can make conflicts a bit painful to sort out though

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Thanks! I got SyncThing setup and it's doing exactly what I was hoping for.

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Looks like you meant "SyncTrayzor".
I've considered SyncThing before but it looked very fiddly. SyncTrayzor should be very helpful.

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Syncthing all the way. Once setup and forget.

I have it sync to pc, other android devices and Nas. I have also synced my Dropbox to phone

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This is the setup I'm using, too. Does everyone have the irritating problem on Windows, though, where Synctrayzor really likes to float some sort of tooltip with its own name in the upper-left corner? Even overlays full-screen games for me.

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Same. The free version is sufficient. I use it to transfer the full resolution photos and videos from the phone to two computers. Syncthing is also good.

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lemmy.world

I am trying to do this with my nextcloud, any idea? (For my phone to download automarically the new version of a file)

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Decknamereply
discuss.tchncs.de

Eigentlich sollte das Funktionieren, wenn du im three-dot Menü den punkt synchronisieren anwählst 👍

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Sorry, I was on autopilot 😂

If you select "Sync" or smth similar in the three-dot-menu on the file or folder, it should be synced between your device and the cloud

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lomreply
sh.itjust.works

“It should work when you select the item “synchronize” in the three-dot-menu”

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Paradoxreply
lemdro.id

The comment being in German but the language being set to English made me laugh

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As others have said it would havetio be SyncThing. I'm sure other solutions exist but it's remarkably easy.

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I use Autosync (Android devices --> Google Drive) and Google Drive's desktop app. Works perfectly for me.

You can set it up for a single folder if you like (I keep about 5 folders synced).

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I don't do Windows, but I happily sync directories between my Android phones and my Linux PCs (especially a cloud server I lease) with rsync over ssh within Termux.

If you can set up an rsync server on Windows that should work. Besides actually implementing robust and efficient sync, rsync is also smart about platform differences.

For the specific case of Windows to Android, I've heard of people scripting up tools to shove all the contents of a directory over adb push.

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FolderSync on phone to Google drive, Dropbox and then have the cloud software on desktop.

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