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Re:Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program by pacifika on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:53AM (#28861275)
It refused a few files with unusual characters in their file name, so you’ll want to periodically check the logs, as it is stricter than the host OS. Apart from that, all good
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Re:Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program by fretn on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:57AM (#28861294)
Do you happen to have a list of these unusual characters ?
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Re:Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program by Tor3 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:17AM (#28861718)
It seems to be anything which isn't either ASCII or UTF-8. My father's PC had files written by old versions of OpenOffice (when it was called StarOffice), with "native" names but before his PC was set up to use UTF-8. Early versions of Syncthing didn't have problems with those files, but later versions refused to back them up. I had to rename all those files one by one to get it working again.
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Re:Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program by nickcw on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:15AM (#28862019)
If you ever have to do to this again checkout convmv - this can convert for example latin1 encoded file names into utf8 encoded file names.
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Re:Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program by 12ian34 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:42AM (#28862157)
wish I'd known about this sooner - thanks
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