Syncthing doesn't sync when folder path is set to my mount path

Hi everyone,
I am running Truenas Scale DragonFish Edition. I have installed SyncThing from truenas and was able to get it running and connected to another device. I am running into a problem when I try to sync files from my PC to my server. when I share a folder and ‘accept’ it in my server it asks for the folder path like on the bottom here:


SyncThing works fine when I use the default path of /var/syncthing/myfolders
but when I point it to the mount path that I configured in the app install of /files it just say out of sync EX:

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any and all help would be great. thanks!