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inotify not working on Android 6+
See original GitHub issuehttps://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=189231
To verify, use the following steps while Syncthing is running:
- run
adb logcat -s FolderObserver:v - in a second terminal, run
adb shellandcdinto a Syncthing folder - create/modify/delete files with
touch,mkdir,rmetc - each of these modifications should be shown in the logcat
I tried this on Android 6 devices, and Android 7.0/7.1 emulators, and none of them reported the events correctly. As a workaround, I changed the rescan interval to 60 seconds on these devices.
Issue Analytics
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- Created 7 years ago
- Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)
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Okay thanks for confirming that. I’ll set the short rescan interval only on Android 6 then.
Yeah I saw that, but like I said, it’s still broken on the emulator. Weird that the behaviour is different there. Would be nice of someone could also try this on a 7.0 device.