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it looks at the contents of zip files for some reason
AFAIK, there is no "zip" file "handling" in FFS.
A "zip" should be treated as a "file", no more, no less.

Perhaps your antivirus is interfering in this situation?
(With python, who knows, maybe it locks the file, such that the A/V is unable ...

with ffs it takes like 40 seconds to do a comparison as it tries to look at contents (even with size only, it looks at the contents of zip files for some reason) where I can do the same with python and it takes no more than a millisecond. I wont be using FFS for this, but it would be a nice feature ...

So you want it to copy literally every file every sync?
That makes no sense


Huh?? where did you get that idea? (please explain, I am not sure you are even commenting on the right post you have it so wrong)
I want to sync any different file, but there is no reason to check contents or size since ...

I have a folder I want to sync regularly that contains hashed zip file names, if the zip has the same name, it is the same file, so I dont want to look inside the zip, and I dont want to check the size or time of the zip. Would there be any way to do this? could this be added?

Sometimes the program stalls on a file, requiring me to restart the program, the problem is that the comparison process takes around 2 hours, and I dont want to have to restart that every time there is an error (ignoring errors does nothing). If this isnt possible, is there a way to skip files that ...