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Synchronization actions |
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Comparison rules
During folders comparison, Synchronize It!
consider some files as same. You can affect which files should be
handled as same by choosing one of comparison rules:
Date + size
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Default rule, suitable for most cases: files are same, if they
have same date and size. |
Date or content
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Modification of default rule, suitable if you think you have
same files with different dates. Files with same date and size are
still considered as same, but in addition files with same size and
different dates are compared byte-by-byte to check if they are
same. |
Content
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Strict rule, which does binary comparison for all file pairs.
Using this rule will make synchronization slower. This rule is
ideally suited for CD verification after burning |
Size only
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Files are considered to be same if they have same size. It is
only good for some log files and similar. |
Tip #1:
Synchronize It! always matches files with same names only.
Tip #2: Date
comparison in all rules takes into account global time-related
options, such as Ignore 2 secs difference
etc.
Actions
Synchronize It! supports different
synchronization modes, called Actions, which you can choose
depending on your task. Actions are different in a way they handle
each file types. Synchronize It! separates several file types
during synchronization:
- same files - they are not copied, but could be included in
list;
- files found only on source folder (left side of file
list);
- files found only on target folder (right side of file
list);
- files present on both sides, but source file is newer;
- files present on both sides, but target file is newer.
Following table describes how each action handles these files:
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Action
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source only
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target only
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source newer
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target newer
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Synchronize |
copy >> |
copy << |
copy >> |
copy << |
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Update target |
copy >> |
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copy >> |
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Backup |
copy >> |
delete |
copy >> |
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Duplicate |
copy >> |
delete |
copy >> |
copy >> |
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