"use -allow-newer-config to override"

[molnizzle]

Ok, how? What does that mean? Where do I add the argument to make SyncTrazor work with latest Syncthing installed on Windows 11?

[tomasz1986]

This is a very well known issue. Please use the search either here in the Issues or at https://forum.syncthing.net as it has been mentioned dozens of times already. The easiest method is to just download the official Syncthing binary and replace your current (old) one with it manually, then launch SyncTrayzor and it will pick it up and use it.

[nutpantz]

WARNING: Failed to initialize config: config file version (37) is newer than supported version (35). If this is expected, use -allow-newer-config to override

i downloaded the latest on github(https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor/releases), where is the "official Syncthing binary"

This is a very well known issue. Please use the search either here in the Issues or at https://forum.syncthing.net as it has been mentioned dozens of times already. The easiest method is to just download the official Syncthing binary and replace your current (old) one with it manually, then launch SyncTrayzor and it will pick it up and use it.

[t0stiman]

1. install synctrayzor
2. download the newest syncthing version from https://syncthing.net/downloads/
3. replace syncthing.exe in the synctrayzor installation folder (C:\Program Files\SyncTrayzor) with the newer syncthing.exe

[Natsumi-x]

1. install synctrayzor

   2. download the newest syncthing version from https://syncthing.net/downloads/

   3. replace syncthing.exe in the synctrayzor installation folder (C:\Program Files\SyncTrayzor) with the newer syncthing.exe

I had to replace the syncthing.exe in (C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\SyncTrayzor), the one in SyncTrayzor's root directory did not work for me.

[betterbuiltcows]

Thanks @EvilEpicPanda. There is a lot of advice on this topic, but yours is correct.

SyncTrazor hasn't been released since 2021. If you already have syncthing installed it uses the existing syncthing config but not the existing syncthing.exe. It installs the 2021 syncthing.exe in two different places, but only runs it from one -- the one under Users.

I think this is happening to a lot of people because Syncthing has a bug where it won't run in the background in windows 11. The bug has been marked fixed, but it still doesn't work. The workaround is to set the "legacy" flag on the windows 11 console, and then the -no-console flag works. But this breaks other things. So people are turning to SyncTrayzor, I think. But SyncTrayzor is old.