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by gamin
28 May 2023, 17:02
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suggestion: Post-comparison filter
Replies: 4
Views: 355

Re: Suggestion: Post-comparison filter

Hi, As far as I know, when FFS compares by contents, it's all or nothing (the whole file has to match); for some files, I want to ignore part of their contents. As for Photoshop, I am using multiple disks on my main computer (for parallel performance reasons), but a single disk for a subset of the f...
by gamin
28 May 2023, 15:26
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suggestion: Post-comparison filter
Replies: 4
Views: 355

Re: Suggestion: Post-comparison filter

I want to filter some files based on contents of the files, which FFS doesn't support. Let me give you two actual examples: • FFS stores in GlobalSettings.xml some settings that are semi-permanent, and timestamps of the last synchronizations (which change often). When I compare this file to its back...
by gamin
25 May 2023, 17:30
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suggestion: Post-comparison filter
Replies: 4
Views: 355

Suggestion: Post-comparison filter

Hi, What do people think of the following suggestion? After the comparison, but before the synchronization, allow a user-supplied program to process the list of files to be presented to the synchronization process. This user program would be able to change the "status" of each file (the mi...