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I just turned on 'show hidden files' and noticed the sync.ffs_db

So I guess everything I was saying is just the way it's meant to be... I suppose it's good for the next time I want to sync. Doesn't help me much this time though. My understand is that there would be performance issues involved in ...

Right, the 'detect moved files' is not working for me in mirror mode. I have been running test after test, and getting some strange results.

The first time I run mirror sync between 2 folders, one with the file A in it, and the other with file A within a sub-folder, FFS will delete file A which is ...

aaaaahh... silly me. Thanks for clearing that up. Sorry for the time wasting.

I feel like I'm being a massive pleb right now, but I cannot see that option anywhere.

Although I just noticed I am still using 5.7. But according to the changelog this feature was introduced to mirror sync in 5.21.

'Detect moved and renamed files and folders' is listed as a key feature, but every ...

It just seems to me that this should be such an obvious function for synching software that it must be me being stupid and overlooking something. The advantages are clear. Less wear and tear on drives, and less time wasted. Why copy over files which already exist on the other drive and could easily ...

2 folders, A and B. Each one contains identical files. I create a sub-folder inside folder B and move folder B's file into that sub-folder.
folder A\file.jpg
folder B\sub-folder\file.jpg

folder A on left side, folder B on right side, run compare. The results for the file in folder A are 'item ...