I’m kind of surprised I’ve struggled with this so long. Right now I’ve been using nextcloud camera upload, and mostly it works ok but shits the bed once in a while without me noticing and I need to spend time fixing it and it’s never as simple as turning it off and on again.

I recently tried syncthing, and while it works, it frequently crashed and got stuck in a state where it says it’s on and working by my destination folder is shown as disconnected, and the options to restart syncthing from the side menu are greyed out and the only way to make it work again is by force closing it and reopening it.

I’m running vanilla stock Google Android and truenas, does anyone have a better solution?

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    When SyncThing is correctly configured (battery optimizations , etc.), you won’t have any issues. (I’ve been using SyncThing for many many years now.)

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        Set up a “global” ignore file that gets synced between devices. Call it .stignoreglobal for example and and change the .stignore file (which doesnt get synced) on every device to only include #include .stignoreglobal. Now your ignore state gets synced between devices and you can make changes from anywhere.

        Mine looks like this:

        // Incomplete Downloads
        *.part
        *.crdownload
        
        // OS-generated files
        desktop.ini
        Thumbs.db
        
        // Cache
        cache
        spotifycache
        
        // Unity analytics
        Unity
        
        // LineageOS updater
        org.lineageos.updater
        
        // No read access :(
        /Android/{data,obb}
        

        You can learn how to write one yourself here: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

        Other stuff:

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          10 hours ago

          Neat!

          I am already using a selective sync for my emulator save data between my NAS, PC and steamdeck in a triangle sync and on top another sync for the data I generate on my phone.

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      24 hours ago

      I might wipe data from syncthing and try again, I think I accidentally screwed up one of those settings and was never prompted again thereafter.