I have set up syncthing on my systems and it works very well for folders where one wants to synchronise all the files.
However I have a few what one might call 'isolated' files that I want to synchronise and I can't see any easy way to do this with syncthing.
It's possible to use syncthing's .stignore file to do it but it's very clumsy and one would need to edit several files just to add one file to the list to be synchronised.
I have pondered putting the 'isolated' files in a directory by themselves (which syncthing can synchronise) and having symbolic links to them from where they are actually used. However adding one file to the list would mean edits in several places.
Any better ideas anyone?
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 06:13:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I have set up syncthing on my systems and it works very well for folders where one wants to synchronise all the files.
However I have a few what one might call 'isolated' files that I want to synchronise and I can't see any easy way to do this with syncthing.
It's possible to use syncthing's .stignore file to do it but it's very clumsy and one would need to edit several files just to add one file to the list to be synchronised.
I have pondered putting the 'isolated' files in a directory by themselves (which syncthing can synchronise) and having symbolic links to them from where they are actually used. However adding one file to the list would mean edits in several places.
Any better ideas anyone?
Just in case anyone is remotely interested in this thread you can use .stignore to do this, as follows:-
!includeThisFile *
This will synchronise just the file includeThisFile and ignore all others in the folder where the .stignore file is.
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:40:07 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 06:13:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I have set up syncthing on my systems and it works very well for folders where one wants to synchronise all the files.
However I have a few what one might call 'isolated' files that I want to synchronise and I can't see any easy way to do this with syncthing.
It's possible to use syncthing's .stignore file to do it but it's very clumsy and one would need to edit several files just to add one file to the list to be synchronised.
I have pondered putting the 'isolated' files in a directory by themselves (which syncthing can synchronise) and having symbolic links to them from where they are actually used. However adding one file to the list would mean edits in several places.
Any better ideas anyone?
Just in case anyone is remotely interested in this thread you can use .stignore to do this, as follows:-
!includeThisFile *This will synchronise just the file includeThisFile and ignore all others in the folder where the .stignore file is.
Lest you feel that your thread has been ignored, be assured that people like me read them and file the information away in case it should prove useful later.
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