Sync cannot keep a copy after deleting the source
Users want to pull files from a source to an external drive and delete them on the source without the deletion spreading to the copy, which sync cannot do.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
10 public reports · first reported 28 August 2026 · last reported 31 August 2026
What's going wrong
Some people use continuous sync as a one-way download step.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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