{"id":5097,"date":"2025-09-29T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:59:24","slug":"synctime-why-do-i-get-errors-when-syncing-my-home-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/synctime-why-do-i-get-errors-when-syncing-my-home-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I get errors when syncing my home directory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><code>.Library<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0<code>.Trash<\/code>\u00a0are system directories inside your home directory. SyncTime doesn\u2019t have enough privileges to access these directories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can exclude these system directories with a <em>File or directory<\/em> or <em>Hidden<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/synctime-filter-files\/\">filter<\/a>. If listed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/synctime-sync-confirmation-dialog\/\">confirmation dialog<\/a>, you can right-click them to open the context menu and select\u00a0<em>Add selected files to the filter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip<\/strong>: if you want to select a file that is hidden in the open panel, you can navigate to it by pressing the keyboard shortcut&nbsp;<code>Command-Shift-G<\/code>, which will open a dialog that allows you to manually enter the full path to navigate to. Alternatively, you can toggle the display of hidden files with the keyboard shortcut&nbsp;<code>Command-Shift-.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of including all files in your home directory by default and selectively excluding the problematic directories, you may choose to exclude all files by default and only include the directories you actually want to sync. Please refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/how-can-i-sync-many-directories-that-have-a-common-parent\/\">How can I sync many directories that have a common parent?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.Library\u00a0and\u00a0.Trash\u00a0are system directories inside your home directory. SyncTime doesn\u2019t have enough privileges to access these directories. You can exclude these system directories with a File or directory or Hidden filter. If listed in the\u00a0confirmation dialog, you can right-click them to open the context menu and select\u00a0Add selected files to the filter. Tip: if you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-sync-time-help-post","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-synctime-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}