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syncthing-android

Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.

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Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.

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It's been working very well for me, I completely replaced Dropbox, and on the VPS/phones [0] as well. The only slow bit I know of is when it's initially syncing too many files…

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Observed mentions: 2020-05-19 00:26:57 UTC to 2025-12-08 00:39:43 UTC.

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karlicoss·May 14, 2021Recommendation phrase
It's been working very well for me, I completely replaced Dropbox, and on the VPS/phones [0] as well. The only slow bit I know of is when it's initially syncing too many files (e.g. tens of thousands). Even if they are tiny, it takes a while. I suspect it has something to do with the index serialization, but also there is a maxConcurrentWrites setting which is 2 by default -- perhaps on an SSD this is an unreasonably low default? Not sure. Is it possible that you didn't have inotify enabled (fsWatcherEnabled)? There is also fsWatcherDelayS [0] setting (10 by default), which groups changes to avoid excessive sync operations, so it might be percieved as latency. [0] https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android#readme -- I recommend the 'fork' over the original app, it's got some nice extras. Although seems that Google doesn't want it on
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