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I really want to like syncthing. The problems I have had with it are..

1) Difficult to set up as a service on Windows, so you don't have a command window in your task bar all the time. I want this thing to be fire and forget, not in my face all the time and setting it up on all my PC's, my wife's PC's and my kids PC's, I don't want a lot of extra steps and 3rd party solutions just to get SyncThing to be a service.

2) I had some CPU hogging issues on my Ubuntu boxes that forced me to disable it.

I did not know they changed their name to Pulse. That explains why I'm getting email from a Pulse mailing list suddenly.



I've been using SyncthingTray for keeping syncthing's GUI footprint to a minimum, it seems to work quite nicely: https://pulse-forum.ind.ie/t/syncthingtray-for-windows/586


I use NSSM to run it as a service. It is an extra step, but it's easy and I never have to touch the service again since pulse/syncthing can update itself (restarts automatically) :)

http://nssm.cc/


Hmm, I wonder if it will suffer from the same issues as BTSync if I try to sync a large number of folders... I will be running on Ubuntu but that does suck that you can't run it as a windows server.


I haven't used syncthing/Pulse at all, but have you tried using srvany to set it running as a service?




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