Deletion of empty folders after synchronization

[TheSound72]

Dear all,

if i have a sync pair between my PC and my cell phone and on the PC side a folder is deleted it remains as empty folder on the cell phone side (Android, Samsung S8). How can the settings be arranged, that these folders are deleted on both sides?

rgds, Holger

[Andy+]

Usually such directories are also deleted

[TheSound72]

in my case it is as i described and i hope that there is an explanation and solution

[Andy+]

Maybe you have some hidden files or some time problematic files like thumbs.db is transfered from Windows etc. which brake a complete deleting. So for such files are a Ignore List is needed.

[TheSound72]

Thanks for the hint, how can i setup such an ignore list to resilio? does that ignore list to be attached / defined on the read / write permission side of the sync pair?

 

[Andy+]

Better is to have on both sides the IgnoreList. As editor I use Notepad++, but also you can use similar editors. Simply open the file IgnoreList you find in each .sync folder and write line per line your excludions, e.g.:
 

# Resilio + Syncthing .stglobalignore
# IgnoreList is a UTF-8 encoded .txt file that helps you specify single files, paths and rules
# for ignoring during the synchronization job. It supports "?" and "*" wildcard symbols.
#
# ? substitutes any single character in a filename
# * substitutes a string of several (any number) characters in a filename
# a/**/b ignore between root and target folder, will ignore folders a/b, a/x/b, a/x/y/b and so on
# ABC/CDE F will ignore subfolder “CDE F" of “ABC" which is located in a subfolder

# ########## OS generated files
$RECYCLE.BIN
$Recycle.Bin
System Volume Information
lost+found
.DocumentRevisions-V100
.TemporaryItems
.fseventsd
.iCloud
.DS_Store
.DS_Store?
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
.Trash-*
~*
*~
.~lock.*
*.part
*.filepart
.csync_journal.db
.csync_journal.db.tmp
*.swn
*.swp
*.swo
.dropbox
.dropbox.attr
*.crdownload
._*

# ########## Firefox, Google Chromium incomplete downloads and other things
*.part
*.crdownload

# ########## Synology files
.SynologyWorkingDirectory
@eaDir
@SynoResource
@synoResource
.@__thumb

# ########## Benutzerdefiniert - nicht synchronisierte Verzeichnisse und Dateien  
Thumbs.db
thumbs.db
.Thumbnails
.thumbnails
Ehthumbs.db
ehthumbs.db
Desktop.ini
desktop.ini
sync.ffs_db
sync.ffs_lock
conflict

# ########## ownCloud files
._sync*
.csync_journal.*
.owncloudsync.*

# ########## Resilio files
.sync
!sync
*.rsls

# ########## syncthing files
.stfolder
.stignore
.stversions
.syncthing
.syncthing*
.syncthing.*.*.tmp
~syncthing~*.*.tmp

# ########## vim files
.*.swp

The Resilio and Syncthing entrances I have, since I using Resilio and Syncthing in parallel by different reasons.

[TheSound72]

unfortunately does not work. undeleted folders show no hidden files. and i cannot find any ignore list on my cell phone, only on the windows side. May there any other idea how to handle?

[Andy+]

At the end is only to delete such folders manually.