API key is not saved when using a new one

[adxsoft]

I am using Syncthing 1.19.2 on Mac OSX High Sierra
(Note I've tried 1.20 on High Sierra without any success.

After I installed Syncthing 1.19.2 and set it to start at login, it worked perfectly syncing to two other Macs.

At some point I generated a new API Key (in the Web Gui Settings) and expected Syncthing to start at login and go Online with the green dot however Syncthing would not go online and showed the yellow Offine Indicator and the menu bar showed an exclamation mark on the Syncthing icon. After generating the new API Key, every time I started Syncthing it showed the old API key in the Preferences, even though the Web Gui Settings showed the new API Key, and stayed Offline. This mismatch between the preferences API key and the Web Gui settings API key is the issue stopping Syncthing going online.

The workaround for this issue I found was as follows

• When Syncthing is initially installed and enabled to start at login, Mac OSX puts the APIKey in a file called 'com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx.plist' in ~/Library/Preferences. For some reason this plist NEVER GETS UPDATED when a new API Key is generated
• I edited the APIKey in 'com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx.plist' to reflect the same API key that is in the Web Interface settings, restarted OSX and Syncthing went online correctly.

So I there is a bug that when the API is re-generated the new API key does not get updated into the com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx.plist in ~/Library/Preferences.

Hope this helps other Mac Syncthing users.

[calmh]

This seems specific to the macOS wrapper which is a separate project, I will transfer the issue.

[xor-gate]

It seems indeed setting the API key from the preferences window doesn't save it anymore.
You could set the new api key from the commandline and restart Syncthing:

defaults write com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx ApiKey '<key>'

We need to investigate why this problem exists.

[garrett-bane-by]

I am having this issue on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6

I used the defaults write command to write the API key and now syncthing will not start either withe the latest version or with 1.19.2-1

Do I need to generate a new API key or is there something else I need to do to remedy?

[garrett-bane-by]

I am going to try upgrading to 10.13 and see if that helps.

[xor-gate]

Hi @garrett-bane-by. Syncthing saves its application files to ~/Application Support/Syncthing. The config.xml is the file where the API key is located. You could use finder to find the file: Go (from menu bar) -> Go to folder -> ~/Application Support/Syncthing and open the config.xml.

Or use the terminal with some commandline-fu:

jerry@Jerrys-iMac Syncthing % cat /Users/jerry/Library/Application\ Support/Syncthing/config.xml | grep api
        <apikey>rR7YrEDLKhNETJZKgySmnYPZvebY9qgk</apikey>

Then set it from the commandline with:

defaults write com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx ApiKey '<key>'

Reinstallation will not help as the state of the syncting macOS is preserved. Hope this helps!

[xor-gate]

In the same folder is also a logfile (syncthing.log) located which can be helpfull if the above doesn't help and Syncthing still doesn't start. You must make sure when you did write the api key with the defaults command to restart Syncthing macOS tray application.

[garrett-bane-by]

updating to 10.13.6 High Sierra seems to have solved the issue for now. Thank you!

[xor-gate]

updating to 10.13.6 High Sierra seems to have solved the issue for now. Thank you!

I didn't expect it to work, but glad it is working for you again