See what your other devices changed here

Use this guide to find out what happened on this computer while you were not looking: files another of your devices deleted here, conflicts, a device added or removed, a folder this computer now syncs or no longer syncs. What you do yourself on this computer is not listed: you already know about it.

Before you start

• This device is set up (see Set up your first device or Add a device).

Read the history

1. Open Tressyl and click the History tab.
2. The newest entries come first, grouped by day, with the local time of each one.
3. An entry for deleted files says how many there were and which device deleted them. Click the “Show the … files” button under it to list them, and Hide the files to fold them again.
4. At the bottom, Show older lists older entries.

For a large deletion, the history keeps the names of the first 50 files only; the entry says how many more there were.

If deleted files should not have been deleted, look in the folder’s .tressyl-versions folder on your devices: when versioning is on, the previous versions of synced files are kept there.

What is kept, where, and for how long

• The history stays on this computer only: it is never sent to your other devices, and each device keeps its own.
• It is saved in Tressyl’s private folder (~/.local/share/tressyl/ on Linux), readable by your account only. It holds file names and which folders and devices they concern.
• Entries older than 90 days are removed, and at most 2 000 entries are kept: the oldest go first.
• If Tressyl has to rebuild its index (after damage), the history starts again empty.

Clear the history

1. In the History tab, click Clear history.
2. Confirm with Clear history, or click Cancel to keep it.

Clearing changes none of your files, and your other devices keep their own history.

Turn the history off or on

1. Open Tressyl and click the Settings tab.
2. Untick Keep a history of what my other devices change here to turn it off: the history is cleared at once and nothing more is recorded. Tick it again to turn it back on.

The setting is saved in ~/.config/tressyl/tressyl.conf as TRESSYL_HISTORY=false (or true).

If something goes wrong

If Tressyl says This setting could not be changed, or clearing fails, look up the error code in the error reference.