sink

sync any directory with 2 windows machines over your local network.

no emailing yourself stuff. no cloud. no flash drives. no bs.

note: this is still a veeery big wip, as there are many features that I have planned to added; you can see this on the bottom of this readme.

features

• automatically finds other computers running sink on your network
• you pick which devices to trust. no randoms can connect
• watches for changes and syncs them up near-instantly
• conflict handling; if you edit the same file in two places at once, or while the app isn't running, it saves both copies so you don't lose work. they'll be in a .sink_conflicts folder.

ignoring files

if you have files or folders you don't want to sync (like node_modules or __pycache__), just create a file called .sinkignore in the same directory as the script. it works just like a .gitignore file, just a bit more basic. add patterns of stuff to ignore, one per line. for example:

# ignore all .log files
*.log

# ignore a specific directory
/build/

# ignore files with a certain name
tempfile.tmp

the script will automatically pick up any changes to this file, no need to restart the entire thing.

run ts

you know the drill

1. clone thy repo
2. install requirements.txt
3. cd to the repo, then simple run main.py
4. all syncing will occur in the same directory as main.py, in a folder called sync across both devices.

boring stuff

wait is there no boring stuff?

todo (with priority out of 5)

• UI (4)
• custom paths (5)
• system tray shenanigans (3)
• meshing with more than 2 devices (1)
• delta sync (maybe?) (2)