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This explanation makes a lot of sense, and a fix to address this is pretty simple: Offer the user to ignore syncing zero-byte files automatically. The few legitimate zero-byte files can be synced manually. Offer the user a visual confirmation if "newer" zero-byte files are available, while on a different node there are larger files. Allow the user to override the "newer" but zero-byte files manually, and get them marked for syncing again. Fix timestamp granularity and sync with variable overlap, compensating for network speed (check out how the rsync protocol has been doing this for over 30 years) Zero Byte files normally are the result of certain operating systems' way of handling copy, or if you touch a file or overwrite a file (log file) with /dev/zero, or if some applications use such files as markers. Make the user select the policy of not automatically syncing zero byte files on a per-directory basis. For example: a picture or documents folder (99% or the cases) does not need zero-byte files, so no auto-syncing of zero-byte files is set. However, if you'd like to sync a log directory, where log files tend to be zero-byte files again, then allow for automatic zero-bytes synchronization by default. I've just discovered Resilio Sync after I have been seriously disappointed by syncthing (can't fix file mode permission issues after updating to Win11, no matter what I do, and there is no sane way to re-initialize the sync from scratch). I have given Resilo Sync a whirl, and then started going through the forum entries to get myself a picture if this is an active product with a supporting community, and if issues/wishes reported actually get addressed in a transparent, efficient, fast and regular interval. Given that this fundamental issue has been open for such a long time, gives me zero confidence to fork over 100 USD for the product, let alone continue using the freely available version. Luckily, I've purchased a commercial license from Tresorit (not peer-to-peer, but zero knowledge forward-encrypted, fast and super reliable) for my company, so I can add many users to my setup now. Clearly, it's not the same decentralized p2p technology, but I get my money's worth of support from these guys, and the product is continuously (visibly) extended. This is very unfortunate, since for private usage I would have liked to use either syncthing or actually Resilio Sync to sync/share personal pictures, movies and documents. Especially since you don't have to limit yourself to some subscription-based storage, or worse, cloud i/o limit.