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Yeah but if you’re just syncing everything to and from a server anyway, why bother with it?

Plus, rsync -a never deletes files.

Because you want syncthing to delete files more often than not. When you want the reverse, it's a single property on the shared folder (ignoreDelete), feel free to set it.

Is that ignoreDelete a Syncthing setting or something on the file system?

Syncthing setting, per shared directory: https://docs.syncthing.net/advanced/folder-ignoredelete.html

Plus why doesn't sync thing support rsync protocols anyway? It's not like it couldn't, right?

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