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Thanks for the suggestion... yes I could go for the custom script approach and it seems to be the only way forward. I never imagined it would be so hard to find a backup software which allows for partial comparisons... For me this could be a nice performance enhancement, because if the files are ...

But Duplicate Cleaner doesn't seem to be a backup tool... I want to back up all files for which TAGs are different, not find duplicates... in the description it doesn't say anything about backing up the files from one drive to another...

(There are duplicate file finders out there, & probably more so for audio rather then video, that can choose to ignore tags, or to only compare tags. Something like that might ? be more appropriate?

AllDup can "Ignore the meta data of FLAC files".)



But I don't want to ignore metadata... on ...

I am always preserving the original file time when mass updating tens or hundreds of files... otherwise this would trigger a massive rescan of my music library which would take many hours and also a resync of my backups... if I keep the original times unchanged, this allows me to rescan my library ...

Hi,

When comparing file contents, would it be possible to have a configuration option to only compare the first x bytes of the files (value to be manually configured)? I am currently using ViceVersa to backup & sync my music collection comprised of hundreds of thousands of FLAC files and the ...