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One more note on the synchronization with GoodSync.

Somehow, GoodSync manages to upload files to SharePoint in a way that doesn't change any file's size after uploading. This seems to have to do with GoodSync using the Microsoft Graph interface.

This interface also seems to have the advantage ...

I have just found out and tested that at least GoodSync seems to be able to solve the present issue.

GoodSync has a synchronization mode that directly connects to SharePoint via the "Microsoft Graph" interface. If this connection method is used, GoodSync uses checksums provided by SharePoint which ...

Just wanted to briefly note that Syncovery recently has introduced an automatic feature that supposedly solves the file size change problem with SharePoint, apparently even without any special size ignore settings.

However, the setup and user interface of Syncovery is so convoluted and confusing ...

Thanks for the info about RoboCopy. I suppose RoboCopy wouldn't be able to at the same time recognize renamed/moved files and folders, would it?

I have kept advocating for this feature request for some time already.

https://i.imgur.com/UgeM1uw.png

I have tried basically every other synchronization program that comes to mind, and there is not a single one that can handle the SharePoint file size difference problem well, if at all.

I ...

Yes please separate moves/renames and actual changes.

And please don't show moves/renames on both sides, in different rows.

And for renamed/moved folders, please don't show their (unchanged) contents.

It seems that these are the only comparison options in SyncFolders:

So is there no option to compare file name and time?

Will do, thanks!

Thanks for mentioning SyncFolders and Bvckup.

Do you know by any chance whether these two have robust moved/renamed files and folders recognition?

That ideally even works when file size is ignored on compare?

It's mainly my fault, as I only just saw that the thread title says that the file extension (and date) should also be ignored.

Therefore, it probably makes sense to create a separate topic, which I have done here.

I would love to see a mode where file size is ignored during comparison:

Inter alia, this would solve the problem that currently FreeFileSync is not usable for synchronizing to SharePoint.

Thanks for considering this feature request.

That's what levaclaus seems to be saying. My proposal is just to ignore file size when comparing.

Yes please, that would extend the usability of FreeFileSync considerably.

I would actually prefer a variant "File time and name", thus ignoring file size on comparison.

https://i.imgur.com/UgeM1uw.png

This would also solve the problem that currently FreeFileSync is not usable for synchronizing ...

Nope. I have been installing hundreds of portable programs on a second internal hard drive for decades, and this has survived many generations of Windows OSes, not to mention uncountable OS reinstalls.

This hard drive has been migrated to MS OneDrive in the meantime and has made all those hundreds ...

I've tried them all. BC, Syncovery, Goodsync, AllSync, Syncthing, Synchredible, PureSync...🤷🏽

Actually I need something that syncs to SharePoint — which changes the file size of the uploaded files🤦🏽‍♂️

Sharepoint obviously. It's like you put your precious art collection in a store house and they ...

Okay, then I guess there is also no way to "add" the files in question (with lightnings and green arrows) to the set of files with orange lightnings, so that these two groups form a set together for future runs that can then be hidden via the orange lightning button?

I think the developer believes that the new tree view is a stroke of genius, which it is in a certain sense. If you only have short paths and many files changed in each path, the new tree view mode probably works very well.

However, this particular case does not usually apply to many users. To the ...

It's a shame because apart from that, there is not one other Sync tool out there that combines blazing speed, ease of use and a friendly GUI like FFS.

But the conflicts button only hides the orange lightnings and not the lightnings with the green arrows.

And if I press the button with the green arrow showing "11", while this will hide the corresponding 11 files as shown above, it will also hide all other files that should be copied to the right ...

Hello forum,

can we somehow ignore (or hide) both of the below conflict types (i.e. also the ones in the middle where FFS wants to copy things from left to right)?

The ones at the bottom (with the red lighning) can already be ignored/hidden via the corresponding bottom toolbar button.

Ignore ...

Please. Even after weeks and months of daily use, I just can't figure out what this means.

I know this has been changed with the best of intents, but the directory view is simply terrible with anything but very short paths.

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True, but I wished there was a better way of showing that just a folder's name has changed, other than showing each single of the 500 unchanged files contained in that folder two times as "changed" in different places...

This is unrelated to the thread topic. That long list is likely showing a 'move' action for each of those files, since the parent folder name is changed.

Puh, if it's unrelated, the problem is even more severe since then it is implied that FFS shows 2 times 500 files as changed when actually ...

Hello all,

Is there a way to select a parent folder and all subfolders and files contained therein via the parent folder, in the synchronization preview?

So far I have only been able to do this by manually selecting all subfolders and files in a parent folder via shift-click?

As an update, this is what the SharePoint sync looks for me when someone has renamed 1 or 2 folders on the local server...

And that's only about a third of the length of the FreeFileSync preview window.

Is that probably all down to SharePoint changing the file sizes online?

Perhaps it is possible ...

I'd also confirm this. In my portable donation version, when the notification about an update appears and I press "Auto-Update", the setup.exe installer is downloaded, which requires administrative rights that I don't have on my work PC.

An additional problem just occurred: I then downloaded the ...

Please.

I know it is not intentional, but with longer paths this is simply unusable.

Hello all,

I can confirm this exact behavior of SharePoint vs. OneDrive.

Unfortunately, this means that I will probably have to switch from FreeFileSync to another sync tool that can handle this issue. I'd rather not do that though, as I like the speed, ease of use and uncluttered UI of ...

That's too much text 💁🏼‍♂️

Whoa! Still not quite sure if this is awesome, or dangerous. Maybe both?

I don't think so. My sync settings are standard Two-way, aren't they?

Or am I not getting something?

This is what the grid usually looks for me when a folder has been rearranged by creating some subfolders and moving stuff to them. Only like 10 files might actually have changed here.

I could be too dumb, but for me there is no way to see what is going to be happening on sync.

https://i.postimg ...

Thanks, I also chimed in over there.

In my view, it's unfortunate that "moved/renamed" is in the same category as "updated".

I basically have to blindly trust that syncing moved files will work properly anyway. This is at least when many files have been moved, because there is no way to see what is going to happen to which file (apart ...

I see, thanks.

In my view, that's a bit unfortunate since you basically have to blindly trust that the moving/renaming will work properly, at least when many files have been moved or renamed, because there is no way to see what is going to happen to which file (apart from checking each file ...

I also tested renaming the subfolder and it performed the same actions: Create new folder, move files, delete empty original folder.

Do these actions each show up in the same respective rows in the sync preview?

Meaning, do you get one row for each file that is going to be moved, or two ...

In my case, unfortunately, the original folder is even synchronized backwards and the renamed folder is synchronized forwards, so that afterwards both the original folder and the renamed folder are present on both sides 😮

However, this could be related to the fact that the folder is on SharePoint ...

Thanks for the awesome new sync concept!

Meanwhile, is there a way to recognize and sync renamed folders ?

I am syncing from a local folder to a network share, and it seems that renamed folders are not recognized. Instead, FreeFileSync wants to delete the existing folders and replace them with ...

Interesting that you mention that Syncovery can do that. I had used Syncovery myself literally for decades, but I still never could figure out which of its zillion of settings (combinations) to use.

I'm now using GoodSync for other reasons, however GoodSync also can't sync hardlinks, symlinks etc ...

Hello Forum,

is there a way to synchronize a file directory to another file directory, however by creating empty files (with only the same file name and date) on one of the two sides?

Dear all,

just a question of understanding on this topic:
if I use the option
"Include symbolic links -> Direct"
then, in particular, are junctions copied in the same way as with Link Shell Extension with Smart Copy , meaning that the junctions work at the destination exactly as they did at the ...

Suppose I have two PCs "A" and "B" at different locations, and only one of them is running at any point in time.

Each PC has a 1 TB data drive which should be kept in sync either via a USB stick or, preferably, via a cloud storage. Both the USB stick and the cloud storage however are much smaller ...

OK I found it...

I had a time filter set for unknown reasons which excluded everyting.

It now works perfectly again, thanks.

I have the same problem here. Trying to sync two huge folders, full of subfolders and files with tens of thousands of differences.

FreeFileSync shows 18! files. And ALL of them are named "descript.ion" -- which I even excluded in the exclusion filter!

There is something terribly wrong going on ...

I didn't even get the Donation Version from that email link, only the normal version :(

Same problem here.

I just donated and downloaded from the link received with my "Donation Received" e-mail. However, I am not given the choice for a portable install?

Works great even 10 years later.
Thanks!

Thanks! I actually never paid much attention to folder dates really.

Is it normal Windows (Explorer) behavior that the folders always seem to show a modification date equal to the latest modification date that a file inside that folder has?

(I believe that folder creation date is normally not ...

Nirsoft's FolderTimeUpdate is a simple tool for Windows that scans all files and folders under the base folder you choose, and updates the 'Modified Time' of every folder according the latest modified time of the files stored in it.

After thinking about that for a minute: why doesn't it update ...

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