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Ignore rules must be repeated on every device

Ignore rules and folder defaults must be set by hand on every device, so they drift apart between machines.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 13 October 2014 · last reported 1 May 2025

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What's going wrong

Syncthing users who run several folders across several devices must set the same ignore patterns and folder defaults by hand on each machine.

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