FreeFileSync Forum

I agree with bkeadle, I think by size is not useful as it's not consistent
since you never know what's going to need to be synced and how that might
affect what files are left. I don't mean that from a programmer standpoint, I
just mean from an end user standpoint that I don't see how anybody would ...

Gotta put my own big "no" vote in for limit by size, or at least not without
having it as an additional option to either (or both) by revisions or by days.
I want to know there's consistency in my retention.

And again, comparing to other sync software I've tried, they all offer by days
or by # of ...

I was working on this reply as Zenju posted his response a few minutes
ago, but as I already had this mostly written, here's my thoughts.



> Also it seems a "limit revision count" could also solve your problem of
providing means to undo an accidental deletion?


Well, yes in general, but it ...

I'm only doing 1-way syncs to an external USB hard drive as a "backup". For
me, the revision history is a "just in case" scenario if I'd want to get back
an old version of, or a deleted file. I figure if I haven't needed to get an
old/deleted file in in "x" days (which based on my testing with a ...

Sounds good to me. I kind of like putting the revision date and time before
the extension so the file still works with any file associations for it. I
look forward to trying this, but also still really want to see the ability to
set an automatic delete of old versions after a certain # of revisions ...

I guess you need keep the time in the revision info as well as the date so
using the example of just using the same directory and just appending the
revision date/time to the actual filename, you end up with
filename.ext.YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS
and I suppose HH should be in 24 hour format for sorting of ...

I JUST found this software today and looks like I found it just in time. I
also noticed the version handling as a bit short of the capabilities of some
other sync software I've tried. My biggest thing is that I also want the
capability to to have FFS automatically delete older revisions with options ...