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Thank you for the reply - Yes, I currently do work out of either directory.

WIth your explanation, I now understand the problem. I'll give much thought as to how
to modify what I do as I really do like FFS - especially the GUI.

Thanks again, Joe

Overall goals are:
Update the folder which has oldest time stamp with the newest time stamp - either Left to Right or Right to Left.

Deletes in Left folder are made in RIght folder in some batch files. In other batch
files I would like deletes in Left folder to be ignored; i.e. no change in ...

Thanks for the replies, but I am still not getting it. Today I ran a job which resulted in 182 files with the
"both sides have changed since last sync" message.

Many of the files displayed the same size, so I'm guessing there is a time difference.

I went to each listed file & selected a direction ...

Perhaps I don't understand the comparison technique, but quite often I encounter files which have a later date but are smaller in size. This can happen for numerous reasons, but a simple example will suffice.

I edit a c# file - deleting several methods that are no longer used which makes the size ...

I have only started using FFS, but do like it much better than the old SyncToy.

I have looked everywhere I can think of trying to figure out how to just compare
the timestamp of 2 files & then copy the newest to the oldest.

The comparison options do not offer just a time comparison.

Is there some ...