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I'll give it a go when I can to find out.

Got to say I'm a little nervous about what I may have already lost :-(

Thx,
Sentry1

Thanks for that.

For clarification, does option III (Compare by Filesize) include a check on the name too? So it doesn't just use file size on its own?

thx

Anyone else got thoughts about the best way to do this if FFS can't do what I need?

Thanks in advance,

Sentry1

The comparison is "File Time and size". It was my assumption that FFS would look at two files and go through this logic:

1) Is the name the same? No = NO MATCH, Yes = possible match, continue
2) If the filename is the same, is the size also the same? No = NO MATCH, Yes = DEFINITE MATCH

Therefore ...

I'm using Custom. I am organising a mess of photo upload folders. Sometimes when the photos were uploaded into these folders using various apps/ftp etc, the original date was not preserved but was overidden by the upload date. Therefore I am using FFS to collate all the photos into one folder and I ...

I hope the above image demonstrates a different filesize, same name, being updated right to left (I always want the earlier version of a file in this context).

Hi,

FFS has started doing something strange. I select the comparison to be "File name and File Size" but it is ignoring File size.

This is truly dangerous as it wants to overwrite files in one folder with completely different files in another (they have the same name as some are photos from an ...