What are you non-obvious, maybe strange usecases of Syncthing?

For example syncing the media library with your friend or maybe your entire /home/user folder between your PC and laptop?

I’d love to hear your ideas!

  • lemmyvore
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    11 year ago

    How does syncthing know what to upload to paperless watch dir if paperless keeps deleting the files after ingesting them?

    • @zaphod@lemmy.ca
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      11 year ago

      That’d exactly what you want! When the file initially lands in the sync folder, Syncthing sends it to paperless. Paperless ingests it, deletes it, and it disappears from my phone, now stored in paperless. Exactly what I need.

      If I wanted the files to stay on the phone I’d set up the phone as Send Only and the paperless side as Recieved Only.

      • lemmyvore
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        1 year ago

        Oh you delete them from the phone too, ok that makes sense.

        I don’t delete them from the phone (because they’re also in a different app I used since before Paperless) so that’s a bit of a dilemma. I’ll have to think about it better.