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I switched to Syncthing from Dropbox a few months ago. While there are a handful of warts, the actual syncing seems to Just Work (TM). I am massively impressed with this, as building even a centralized file hosting service is quite the undertaking. I donated and I'd encourage others to do it as well, link on the homepage: https://syncthing.net/

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> handful of warts

What type of issues?

What I'm thinking of are synced ignore lists of some sort. I think I read in the issue tracker that this is something they plan to change eventually.

And related, sync % reflecting ignored files. For example I've ignored a bunch of transient things like node_modules so my backup server sync is permanently at 70% even though it's actually up to date with all the files I want synced.

I do this in two steps:

1. An "stignore.txt" at the root of a shared directory. This gets automatically synced to every device.

2. "#include stignore.txt" in '.stignore' that I need to manually write on every new device.

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