# Android sync file system half working

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/android-sync-file-system-half-working/35183>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [14 January 2024 05:14 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/android-sync-file-system-half-working/35183 "2024-01-14T05:14:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![kira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@kira](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/kira)\
**Post date:** [14 January 2024 05:14 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/android-sync-file-system-half-working/35183/1 "2024-01-14T05:14:35Z")

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### Operating system

Android

### Joplin version

2.13.10

### Sync target

File system

### What issue do you have?

I'm using Autosync (same as dropsync) to synchronize Joplin in Android, in Linux I use file system sync too.  
Notes and notebooks created in Android go fine to Linux.  
Notes created in Linux don't go to Android.

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**Author:** ![tomasz86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@tomasz86](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tomasz86)\
**Post date:** [14 January 2024 11:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/android-sync-file-system-half-working/35183/2 "2024-01-14T11:47:18Z")

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Please check if you haven't been hit by [https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/6517](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/6517).

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**Author:** ![kira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@kira](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/kira)\
**Post date:** [21 January 2024 19:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/android-sync-file-system-half-working/35183/3 "2024-01-21T19:47:02Z")

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I tried the touch workaround and now is worst. I have notebooks now not syncing or showing in Android

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**Author:** ![tomasz86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@tomasz86](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tomasz86)\
**Post date:** [21 January 2024 22:49 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/android-sync-file-system-half-working/35183/4 "2024-01-21T22:49:22Z")

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What have you done exactly? I believe that just touching the files, or in other words changing their mtime to the current time, may not be enough, because there is no guarantee that Joplin processes only some of them in between, and then the rest will already have a date older than the recorded one.

In my experience, only setting the date to the future is a bulletproof method to force Joplin scan through and sync everything into the database. The future date makes it 100% sure that nothing it left behind.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2024 22:49 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/android-sync-file-system-half-working/35183/5 "2024-02-20T22:49:41Z")

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Closed on 20 February 2024 22:49 UTC

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