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ahh so that was this flag that made a difference - changing LockDirectoriesDuringSync to false left original directories timestamps. thank you! creating hidden file by FFS would change directory timestamps - so that's the answer. however this would happen at the comparison stage already and file wou...

thanks for the quick response. As I understand the DB is part of the synchronisation - at least it's where it can be configured. I changed it to 'mirror' just for the sake of testing which also disables 'use database file to detect changes' but it didn't make difference, unfortunately. It's only top...

Hi, I noticed something I wasn't expecting. When doing comparison between 2 directories (not even trying to synch yet), FreeFileSync updates timestamps of the source and destination directories to the current date/time. I don't think this is desired behaviour, comparison shouldn't make any changes, ...