### Please describe the problem. I am fairly new to git annex - so I may have a misconception about how it should work. I have two laptop clients A and B that each have a single ssh remote, server C, setup as a full backup. Both of the laptops were setup through the web and have the assistant running. The problem I am seeing is that laptop A does not seem to sync contents created on laptop B. If i do the following: laptopA# echo "foo" > bar laptopB# cat bar > foo laptopB# echo "baz" > bang laptopA# cat bang > No such file or directory Laptop A has the symlink for bang but no contents. if i run the following: laptopA# git annex find --want-get --not --in . it returns 'bang' So it seems that laptopA wants the contents of the file created on laptopB, but doesn't sync it. If I manually run git annex sync --content everything is good. But when running the assistant should I not care about this? ### What steps will reproduce the problem? See above. ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? laptopA: OSX 10.10 git-annex version: 5.20150205 build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV FsEvents XMPP DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA TorrentParser key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E MD5E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 MD5 WORM URL remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web bittorrent webdav tahoe glacier ddar hook external local repository version: 5 supported repository version: 5 upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 4 laptopB: Archlinux git-annex version: 5.20150219-g7751a05 build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 Inotify DBus DesktopNotify XMPP DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA TorrentParser key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E MD5E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 MD5 WORM URL remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web bittorrent glacier ddar hook external local repository version: 5 supported repository version: 5 upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 4 ### Please provide any additional information below.