How to Sync Local Files 

Been using this to sync all my LEGALLY ACQUIRED music files with my phone for years now. 👍

Chris, this video was incredibly helpful for my needs. Please keep up the great work with videos like these!

Love the videos man, I learn more from watching you than a lot of places and you are a natural teacher.

Great walkthrough, not a snore fest at all! I hadn’t considered symlinking my saves, great tip! Also appreciate the leads on Synctrayzer and Syncthing-gtk.

Not a snooze fest at all. This was perfect and it was the first thing I clicked on this morning. I was just about to write a lame robocopy script for one way syncing with my drum set laptop. This is a thousand times better. Thank you. Oh, I'm headed over to your channel now to search for a sync thing video. 🙂

Thanks for sharing this info, always good to see and learn sys administration at work... appreciate the format and the deeper dive into the topics in question... best RU-vid channel in my opinion and I have learned so much from this channel in regards to IT & windows/linux. Thank you CTT

Yes I like this format, quick and practical. Thanks a lot!

I love these videos where i get to learn about a new thing i may be interested in!

Thanks for the idea of the Game Saves Chris, you're awesome!

Thanks for the video. Just hearing about Syncthing and your advice is a great help for getting started. Cheers.

As a none gamer, I am very happy to hear you let people know about syncthing, a great tool! I have a main PC on my desk at the office at home, I sync that device to my Laptops, so that when I am meeting with a client or out and about, any changes I make in my files are automatically backed up to my PC at home. Instant backup. Then on my home PC, I run BackinTime to incrementally backup to another drive. BackinTime is Mac OS Time Machine, only better. I have also just started setting up a clients small business PC's, about 10 o f them, to sync to a local server, using syncthing because windows back sucks hind t_t! Love this tool!

First FreshRSS now Syncthing video. Get out of my project notebook. I start something and on the same day you upload video about the topic :D

Good video, like the deeper dive approach.

Thank you man! I will do that when I get home!

Great video really helpful as always.

Thank you for this video. It has been very helpful for my commercial projects.

I freaking love Syncthing-works great between Linux and Windows computers (and I think MacOS, too). The Android app is pretty great too. I'd encourage folks to read the docs, as there are plenty more configuration options (like making folder send-and-receive, send-only, or receive-only, setting ignore patterns, etc.) that can be set on a per-folder basis.

My go to IT advice man!

that symlink idea has just been adopted, tyvm!

very good video, really help me a lot! Thanks

Using this to sync my obsidian vault between machines and my Android. Works very fast and is rock solid

Very useful. Thanks

Hey Chris, I've tried Syncthing in the past, but I couldn't figure out how to set it up so if I delete a file from a client, it doesn't delete it from the server, how would you go around doing that?

Can you explain how to set up Syncthing as a substitute for Dropbox/Nextcloud. E.g. I have 2 PCs and a VPS. I want to share files between PCs via a local network if they are on a local network. And sync to the VPS directly without relays.

i use it for the backup of my photos on my phone and access (almost) instantly on my computer after just took it, it's just awesome 👍

Love your videos. Tank you.

Syncthing is great for bidirectional syncing multiple files across network. but it doesn't sync 2 local files. what tool am I able to use for that. (looked into rsync, but that's unidirectional - copies one way from a main folder to other folder, not both ways)

This looks really useful. I should check whether it can automatically move files too. I've been using a paid program called SecondCopy for years because it has a fairly simple UI and is very flexible, but I'd prefer something that's not limited to just one OS.

Dataminers have found hints that Valve is developing native ptp file sharing. Will definitely be a nice QOL change when it gets here.

could you create a video about self hosting a calendar with tasks and contacts for a familiy? I have a Raspberry Pi Zero 1 wireless free to use.Baikal is running on it , but I would like to have a way to let Davx5 only sync if the devices are connected to the home network and not searching randomly in a public wifi for the baikal server. I am concerned since it uses digest and md5 for securing the server . would love to see your solution for this "problem" since I am not satisfied with my approach. Also do not know how good syncthing fits my problem.

More like this! Yes!

Awesome vid. I'm still using synctoy 2.x for sync'ing archive backups, but if/when I get a central file server, syncthing looks like a winner for continuous sync between active devices.

Thanks!

Is this syncthing is not secured? Because you said you don’t care if someone login into to this app and see only games folder. What do you recommend for important files like your personal documents and photos?

I used to use syncthing but kept having conflicts between files and speeds where limited. I then switch to resilio sync, haven't had an issue since. It's been 2 years since I've first installed it on our Synology Nas

As a single user, I use Allways Sync. I use it to back up PC files to a removable HDD. It does a reasonable job. The biggest test is when I MOVE a file (receipts to completed archive, photos sorted by date, etc.) A fast sync process would MOVE the files in the sync, but most apps delete and re-copy instead.

How does this compare to the likes of Nextcloud? The way I have my Nextcloud set up, I can sync the documents folder on my laptop back to the server at home, even when I'm outside, which means if I lose the laptop, I don't lose the data. It also automatically uploads the photos I take on my phone to the Nextcloud server.

Great video

How did you customize rofi to have all that sweet style and animations?

I have a problem hope someone can help me. How to share files from c:/users/public? I downloaded re4 and it creates its save files into public folder not into my csben Main user

I love this app for syncing my KeyPassXC database between Win, Mac & Android using an always on RPi 3b (that also runs PiHole), because I do not trust online password managers

Do you or can you make a video on how to copy a live server to another server that is currently live and replace all the files on it? I have one server that is working correctly and how it's supposed to but the second server is functioning but it's not working how it's supposed to I would rather just copy the working server and change the individual files I need to like static IP and any other configuration files then start fresh and have to do it from scratch.

Thanks for this! Just what I need right now, will run on a RPi4 with 4TB USB3 drive, along with Pi-Hole, plugged into the router. Well, that's the plan anyhoo :)

If you are staying inside your network, and using symlinks in windows, is there a benefit to using syncthing over smb?

Awesome 👍👍👍👍👍👍

As always, great info. I've seen rainmeter before but never installed it. So here is my dum question. How should we evaluate if something is safe to install (not from a bugs/compatibility perspective but from malicious code perspective. Installers are often not scripts and we can't see what it's doing... how to we decide this is likely ok? What can I add to my list. I check to see how long the software has been out in the wild... but sometimes a project can have a fork of a similar name... then I look for people I trust like like CTT to share link to project and trust they did more due diligence than I could. and finally I search for app name and "warning" to see if anything comes up. I'm sure there is more I could be doing but not sure what that is.

I've been using SyncThing to keep my phone photos backed up somewhere I control (my home Debian box). I also have another folder to push music from my computer back to the phone.

Grate video! I was wondering if you could make one about the new update of nextcloud and how to set an raspberry pi as a home nas to access from the internet! THX

Are you running MSI afterburner on Linux????

How did we go from talking about syncthing to sync trazor? I thought since we were gonna use syncthing, I'd be installing and using something called syncthing, not getting syncthing, but somehow opening and interacting with something of a completely different name. I hate it when software devs do this. When I got into Affinity Photo, I didn't download and install Affinity Photo then use some other application to interact with A-Photo as a front-end.

Will symlink let cloudsaves continue?

Funny thing is i just discovered and used Syncthing this week, This is fantastic 😄

Was the symbolic link just to show it syncing in reverse?

I've used GoodSync for many, many years.

yes please.... we want more...

It was fun to see what kind of other tinkering stuff you are into Lol

use syncthing for a while now, it's a really great Foss.

Just curious on how he switched desktops. Thanks and have a great day! 😊

i have seriously no clue how you make this synctrayzor work. i am trying to share my phone with my laptop for 6 hours now... doesnt work. local discovery, global discovery, doesnt matter. if i click +device on either pc or phone, it doesnt find anything. even if i manually type in the id of the other it says: incorrect

Hey Chris, I need your serious help man I am using your windows debloat utility from last 2 years no issues so far But from last 1 week I am stumbled upon a major problem (already clean installed ws10 pro 3 times but still stucked) I am using windows 10 pro The moment I clean install (with all windows update and drivers update) alongwith debloating everything works fine for exactly 2 days after that Internet access for windows app is gone like crazy no access to internet Whereas it is working fine for everything just fine like chrome, spotify etc also working fine on windows sandbox I am on ethernet connection on a DEsktop I dont know whether it is something wrong with scheduler or what that it restricts internet to native apps after like 2 days. I tried plugging in an external usb wifi dongle still same issue I am very frustated tried each n every fix available on internet but can't resolve it please help Please I don't want to use windows without debloating PLease help 😫😫😢😢

I have the problem that my remote devices status is disconnected. Anyone knows a fix for this?

Thanks for this. I'm trying to get my head round Syncthing. I'd love to find an instruction that explained how to setup syncthing between a PC and an Android phone. All the YT vids is watch at some point start introducing complicated factors like Linux, NAS boxes etc etc.

@ChrisTitusTech Could make a video/short on "how to check all the ports, other I/O devices and battery depletion status from command prompt/powershell?" Would be very useful while buying 2nd hand laptops/noteboks

How about sync linux and macos enen with window ?

one thing i missing was the ability to synchronize on the same machine but different drivers like i tried to sync my pendrives, but was time ago, gonna have to check again

How about Syncthing with Tailscale so I can connect 'an offsite' location.

I just started using this within the last two months for obsidean

is there something like this for github?

How to use syncthing to sync across wireguard vpn?

if you dont like to use CMD for links, you can use Link Shell Extension

I go way more granular, like not using Windows. I don't play games though, so that makes it easier!

Please do advanced sync using Syncthing: partial synching, archive, how to preserve your documents, security over internet, mobile synching

To help the stats of your main channel, why not make an “extended learning” channel and post updates on your main channel linking the videos from that extended channel.

Oh get out of here you gosh darned mind reader!!! Literally bending my mind around sorting something out for this without having MS/Goog/etc logged in permanently on my PC!

Hi, Chris. I used fedora 37. I'am using Win11 now. I switched to win from fedora because I'am master student and ı need to use SPSS and MAXQDA for analysis. However, ı find SPSS alternatives Jamovi but ı couldn't find any good alternatives for MAXQDA. I thought two options for solution. One is to use virtual win10 on fedora37 and the two is to use bottles or wine. What do you suggest to me? Is it enough 40-50 gb space for virtual win10. Is it enough 3-4 gb ramfor virtual win10. Are bottles or wine work for this situtaion. NOTE: I consider to use Obsidian for qualitative anlysis and R programming language for other analysis. I'am using Obsidian for taking academic notes for my research papers now. I just can't try out because ı have limited sources. I have Lenovo Thinbook 15 Gen2 ARE laptop with 256 GB SSD drive and 8 Gb ram. Thank you.

Sounds a lot like a samba share that I can map as a network drive. Besides file versioning which sounds cool. How does it differ?

I personally use FreeFileSync for my drives and ftp server. It's very good. But nobody ever mentions that this program exists, I found it by happenstance

chris im using ur tool and my question is do i redo the tweaks everytime i turn on my pc?

Neat

I'm using syncthing for over a year now and I couldn't be happy.

Relays is such a confusing feature cause you never really want tp use a relay but its usually the main way devices connect over WAN cause they cant find each other

Great video. So many people come to you for Linux info. On that note , when are you going to redo your switching to OpenSUSE videos? They are painful to watch and it gives OpenSUSE a bad name. I think it ends up turning off a bunch of people because they watch your video that you made when you weren't sure what you were doing.

I love Syncthing, but it's just so slow. Even on the local network.

ok when you said a computer that is always on ,only one thing came to mind. Its an android phone. its an always on computer. can you install syncthing in it ?

I recommend using MEGA for cloud storage. It has a Linux client for every distro known out there. Free 20 GB out-of-the-box and a clean UI. Although the prices are a bit high as compared to other services. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I see this all the time, syncthing is not supposed to be used with a central server, what you are supposed to do, is connect every client to each other, for example, if I had two windows, PCs and one Linux, PC on the Linux PC I need to add both Windows pcs to a folder and then on each Windows PC I need to add the Linux PC and the Windows PC to a folder, this way you get peer to peer syncing and you don’t need a Central server like a Nas

0:13 CCleaner?

Rpi + KeepassXC + SyncThing. Just sayin'.

That painfully contrived thumbnail smile never fails to make wonder…why…? It rarely if ever actually fits the context of the rest of the thumbnail. And if one have watched any of your videos that smile just isn't in any video after the thumbnail. Which is perfectly fine. I personally think you can drop the excessive smiling and save it for a context content wise, where it will feel more organic. You’re obviously a creative person Chris so I’m certain u could do a lot better with the thumbnails. Cheers! 🙏👍✌️🖖

New camera (or lens) is too close, ur face gets warped Chris

I'm always suspicious to software with political and/or ideological affiliations.

Cloud sux.

If anyone is on KDE, you should use syncthing tray. Its like synctrayzor but on Linux. imo, its much better than syncthing-gtk.