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by eggehad
04 Jan 2018, 02:46
Forum: Help
Topic: How to overwrite smaller files ONLY?!
Replies: 7
Views: 1320

Re: How to overwrite smaller files ONLY?!

Exactly. This whole issue is a little perplexing to me, since, nowadays it's pretty common to combine media folders (MP3, MP4 files, etc...) and for any two files with identical naming, to want to keep the larger (higher bitrate, better resolution, ... file). Doesn't it seem like FFS would be tailor ...
by eggehad
03 Jan 2018, 20:05
Forum: Help
Topic: How to overwrite smaller files ONLY?!
Replies: 7
Views: 1320

Re: How to overwrite smaller files ONLY?!

Yes, I did actually. The problem is that the filter requires a fixed filesize, and I can find no way to say source "larger than" destination. The filters ask for rules like: copy if file is > x bytes or copy if < x bytes.

I've basically come to the conclusion that freefilesync does not have this ...
by eggehad
01 Jan 2018, 22:53
Forum: Help
Topic: How to overwrite smaller files ONLY?!
Replies: 7
Views: 1320

How to overwrite smaller files ONLY?!

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to select one folder, say: X:\Music2\CDs\Country and copy it's contents into another folder, say x:\Music\CDs, while only overwriting SMALLER files which may already exist in the destination, or copying whatever missing files that aren't currently IN the ...