Jakob Borg

Yes. I'm not philosophically against doing this, but I suspect it would be complicated and fraught with corner cases given all the filesystems etc that don't support hard links. Complicated...

See also: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/wiki/In-Place-Updates

There is not

There is an API. I'm not sure what "this" you're looking for a solution to?

Yeah as noted that’s how Syncthing works, so there’s no workaround for that.

The feature request does not require arguing for, it's clear. It requires implementation. There's an embryo of a design early in this thread. It just lacks someone willing to tackle...

I think the path to officialdom lies via widespread use. Initially it should be listed on the contributions page, and we could add a sentence to the download page saying...

Yeah what imsodin says. "folder marker missing" might not say exactly what the marker is, etc, but it indicates there's something wrong with the folder and is googleable. ".stfolder is...

> basically user is always accountable Nonetheless, suggesting a one click option that will delete everything everywhere in a common case (folder not mounted) is unfriendly. I’m all for somehow...

You can do either of those. And please use the forum for support.