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[UPDATE] OK, some requirement changes. My wife has decided that file date only is a good comparison. The latest version of any given design includes changes to number of colors, needle sizes, etc. That can result in the 'best' version being larger or smaller than the matching file in the other ...

I don't see how to use a CUSTOM sync definition to only update larger files [either way] when the file names are the same.
FFS has done a wonderful job of identifying different folder structures and files. I'm working with 750,000 files in thousands of folders in two libraries, so the different file ...

My workaround seems to be making a copy of the target library and attaching it to the source library machine. UPDATE and TWO WAY both copy Permissions in that configuration. Networking is clearly the problem, not the actual comparisons. Bummer when the libraries are large.

I tried using Windows Advanced Sharing to make sharing 'Everyone' for read/write on both the high level folders in the Custom Variant. I had hoped Inherited Permissions would change things. I'm stumbling around trying to find a systems configuration fix. That change didn't work. Same result. Bummer.

I know I can get rid of the errors by not copying permissions. I found that in the support files, but that means the permissions don't propagate. I tried checking copy permissions before I did the Compare, just in case the behavior is sequence sensitive. That didn't change the behavior.

These log files may help. They are from the recent fails.

• I agree that simply selecting the Custom Variant looks like it would do what I want.
• I added two unique text file to Master and two different unique text files to Target.
• I ran Compare and the results are as I would expect. Master has two unmatched files and Target has two unmatched files.
• I ...

BTW - I watched the tutorial, did a test using that approach, works as advertised. However, that is just two updates with the associated Compares to reset indexes. I guess I was expecting all that to be done under the covers. My bad. I guess I'll live with it and go down the sequential batch jobs ...

Two way sync is not giving results I expect. I suspect it is my expectations that aren't right. I have a minimal test environment for testing.
One desktop [Win8.1] with a 'library' with 8 directories and 221 files.
One laptop [Win10] with a copy of the same library.
New install of FFS[10.6 Donation ...