30 September 2025

Looking at Syncthing

Moved around a few files on my laptop. It caused around 1500 changes to be synced to my Nextcloud server. Mostly small files, We're talking a couple of kilobytes.

Took north of an hour to sync!

Looked around and it seems like this has been an issue for at least a decade. Ooooooof. Probably something wrong with my setup that is causing it. So now I'm looking at Syncthing for something simpler.

Will take a fair bit of work to replace some of the other components for which I'm using Nextcloud, though, which is photos and music. But I have been thinking about experimenting with Tailscale to expose some of these services online, so…

Let's see!

Note to self: This post might come in handy as a reference.