{"id":1238,"date":"2022-04-24T23:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2025-01-24T00:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T06:31:14","slug":"updating-syncthing-and-syncthing-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Updating syncthing and syncthing-macos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago I installed syncthing with brew and I later added syncthing-macos to view it’s status graphically from the Mac’s menubar. I perused this site<\/a> for some of the configuration. Updating syncthing-macos to the latest version is possible by going to the menubar, selecting the syncthing icon, choosing “About”, and then “Check for Updates”:
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\nTo update syncthing (the executable that syncthing-macos reads from) as a formula, execute the following brew commands in Terminal.app:<\/p>\n

brew services stop syncthing
\nbrew upgrade syncthing
\nbrew services start syncthing<\/code><\/p>\n

Completing the above commands moved my Mac’s syncthing from version 1.15.1 (Big Sur) to 1.19.2 (Monterey). Package managers are so slick.
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** Update 6-16-2022 **
\nStill running Monterey and the procedure above worked well. You can keep syncthing-macos running, I just ran the Terminal commands and syncthing-macos’ menubar icon gains an exclamation point while this change is going through. When brew finishes updating syncthing, syncthing-macos loses its exclamation point and things continue running as they were before.<\/p>\n

** Update 11-2-2022 **
\nStill running Monterey and the procedure above worked well to upgrade from syncthing 1.20.4 to 1.22.1.<\/p>\n

** Update 1-6-2025 **
\nI installed the brew formula for Syncthing and then installed the official syncthing-macos as a brew cask using this command in Terminal:<\/p>\n

brew install --cask syncthing<\/code><\/p>\n

Will post later on how the syncthing cask updates itself.<\/p>\n

** Update 1-24-2025 **
\nWell, that didn’t last long. On January 15, Syncthing auto-updated and afterward Syncthing could launch itself again. I figured this out, because its log file was stuck on January 15.<\/p>\n

To get around this bug, I downgraded Syncthing to 1.26.0 and then upgraded to 1.29.2 using releases posted here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/syncthing\/syncthing-macos\/releases<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d still like Syncthing to go back to using brew, but that may have to wait for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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