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The downside is that if a device you aren't online with modifies it, and doesn't reconnect to the internet or even LAN that the other client is on, other clients will be out of date and potentially cause file syncing/overwriting issues.
But SyncThing is a good tool for this.
For a password manager, I'm not sure if this is an issue since I'm only changing the database file while connected to the internet. Am I overlooking something?
SyncThing only syncs when both devices are online at the same time.
So a comon scenario is: You change the DB on your laptop, then shut it down. You open the DB on your desktop. Since the lapotp isn't online at the same time, you are working with the old DB version. If you change it, you have two competing versions.
I don't know exactly what happens then; I'm facing it and am procrastinating dealing with it ^^
Ahh this makes sense