Lost abundant local files during syncing

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@pallam

I saw the files on my local drive disappearing one by one during syncing. Only some random files are still left there. I can’t find the lost files on my My Cloud Home either. I

Unfortunately this is a common problem from sync conflict as you can read from this thread from 2018. You should always have three backups of your important data before trying sync on those data:

Sync-conflict

@Kampie SOURCE: FAQ — Syncthing documentation When a file has been modified on two devices simultaneously and the content actually differs, one of the files will be renamed to .sync-conflict--.. The file with the older modification time will be marked as the conflicting file and thus be renamed. If the modification times are equal, the file originating from the device which has the larger value of the first 63 bits for his device ID will be marked as the conflicting file. If the conflict is be…