Now, a tip for any syncthing newbie: make sure that your devices are in sync before traveling. So the two problems we’ve found should be fixed, and they are not terrible. And the file picker story in snaps needs to improve with content hub or file portal or something. The ~ thing is an UX issue on syncthing, because the folder field shouldn’t be a text field, it should be a file picker. We discussed about making the snap classic, but it seems to me that we lose too much by removing the confinement. So the meaning of ~ is different and that might be confusing.Īlso, you can’t sync hidden. The tilde character (~) can be used as a shortcut for /home/elopio/snap/syncthing/common. Path to the folder on the local computer. The tilde character (~) can be used as a shortcut for /home/elopio.
When you ujse the deb, you see in the GUI: There are a two details that might be unexpected for somebody used to the deb, It would be very nice if we could help them testing the snap.
#Syncthing master folder install#
The syncthing snap is in the store! It has been there for a while as an experiment in the syncthing community, but after some time testing it I’m now confident that we can recommend more people to install it. We need more services like this one, but enough random talk and to the good news: I have enough devices at home to make redundancy and high availability, so I don’t really need to put my files in someone else’s computer. It changed the way I think about the cloud. It’s simple enough to set up, but the interesting part is that it’s fully decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted over the Internet. Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. I was just about to make the wrong decision when I found syncthing
When we stopped developing Ubuntu One, I was left with two options to synchronize my files: use a service I don’t trust, llke dropbox or google, or set up my own storage server.
Tl dr: sudo snap install syncthing -candidate