How Your Desktop Vault Stays in Sync With the Cloud
How a desktop app's local vault stays synced with your cloud account, including what triggers a sync and how conflicts are handled.
A desktop vault syncs with the cloud automatically in the background whenever a connection is available, pulling in changes made anywhere in your account and pushing up anything changed locally, so both stay aligned without any manual action from you.
What triggers a sync
Lemon Link checks for updates periodically while online and syncs immediately after you reconnect from an offline period, so the vault catches up quickly rather than waiting for a scheduled check.
What happens if something changed in both places
Your cloud account remains the source of truth. If the same record changed both locally and in the cloud while you were offline, the sync resolves it sensibly and flags anything genuinely ambiguous rather than silently overwriting data.
Do you need to do anything manually?
No. Syncing runs automatically in the background. The only thing worth checking occasionally is the last-synced indicator, particularly before relying on the vault somewhere you expect to have no connection.
Frequently asked questions
How often does the desktop vault sync?
Automatically, periodically while online, and immediately after reconnecting from an offline period, so it catches up quickly rather than waiting on a fixed schedule.
What happens if I make changes offline and something changed in the cloud too?
Your cloud account is the source of truth, and the sync resolves overlapping changes sensibly, flagging anything genuinely ambiguous rather than silently overwriting data.
Do I need to manually trigger a sync?
No, syncing happens automatically in the background. It is worth checking the last-synced indicator before relying on the vault somewhere you expect no connection.
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