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I tested the latest 11.1 and found it to be a clear good improvement. Visualization issues noticed in 11.0 are repaired. Moreover, resizing of FLOATING "Configuration" window in Linux version works well now!

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My previous post about the fact that full paths are ...

Some people here stated that Tree View "hides" paths for cases when there are many files listed in folders so scrolling down the list hides the path and mouse hovering is needed to check the path. I do not understand these statements. Here are 3 screenshots of the same list in Tree View in 3 random ...

I agree that both views (plain view and tree view) are both important and each of them is the best choice for some specific conditions. As I mentioned earlier, it's quite impossible to have one and only optionless view that is universally the best view for any use cases. These fundamental approaches ...

The first screenshot is a demonstration (amongst a lot others) that the tree view is just horrible...


Your comment (by the way, I absolutely disagree with you about that - but it doesn't matter) just proves my previous statement

I think all these discussions and opposing ideas about proper ...

I was forced to revert back from 11.0 to 10.25 because of the following bug at least for Linux version.

10.25 (valid representation): 11.0 (invalid representation): It's really a bug, it's not a drawback, etc.

I think all these discussions and opposing ideas about proper visual representations prove that it's quite impossible to implement "one and only very best optionless design for everybody". Some options are unavoidable. Because there are different use cases even for the same user, not speaking about ...

OK I'll continue further discussions in viewtopic.php?t=7397#p25342.

Your new design is quite OK - I can confirm that.

One remark. Do you really need such huge horizontal spacing for filenames. Does this amount of horizontal spacing mean anything? Why can't it be replaced by minimal spacing as an option for maximum horizontal space economy?

Here is the example ...

Screenshots.
The most convenient representation for my data: Why detached (floating) Configuration Windows is not scalable?

I performed more experiments with real data and would like to thank Zenju for good work on representation issues. In fact when I close Overview and Configuration windows, switch one panel to "Relative Path" mode and another panel to "Item Name" mode and shift panels separation line to the right I ...

Considering Case 2 when there are BOTH active sync directions: left to right and right to left we see that all representations demonstrated on screenshots become a bit inconvenient. I think when Relative Paths mode is selected for both left and right panels it would be natural and more convenient to ...

I do not see problems with Column Size and filename alignment. "Prioritize item name rendering if lacking horizontal space" works as expected. Of course, horizontal space is not saved in any way in new layout, but at least textual path-related garbage is removed and filename is showed even for long ...

Unison vs FFS 10.25 (linux) Case 2 (various representations):

Unison vs FFS 10.25 (linux) Case 1 (various representations):

I see that FreeFileSync 10.25 has been released and it seems to solve (at least partially) some problems described in this thread as far as I understand:
- New file tree layout for main grid
- Prioritize item name rendering if lacking horizontal space

I'll try this version (for Linux) on my real ...

Sorry, I'm a GNU/Linux user so I cannot verify your beta design on my specific files, because you attached Windows version only.

But I guess my long paths will keep too long and truncated because horizontal space is not saved in your new design yet. Compressing empty space (long tabs on nested ...

> That's essentially the "Overview panel", isn't it?

Yes, it looks like existing Overview panel, but with all functionality, sync direction icons, etc. currently available in Compare panel(s). It would be nice to have such visual representation as some option(s) for main Compare panel(s). For ...

I propose the following very simple (and may be slightly extreme) self-verification of any experimental representation variant.

Just assume you are working at base nesting level 10 and considering several level 11-12-13 subfolders with several items requiring sync inside these folders. Assume that ...

If you ask me I would prefer saving horizontal space at the cost of vertical space of course. I can list the following reasons (all of them make sense for deep folder hierarchies only - and that is exactly my usecase):

1. There are many items in vertical direction forming some long list with ...

May be you do not face long paths in your synchronizations and that's why current representation is quite comfortable for you?..
For example, consider some very deeply nested subfolder in your sync directory and many modified files inside this folder.
I think that any representation setting will not ...

Dear FreeFileSync community, I cannot believe that nobody faces the same or much similar differences view problems for folders with deep nesting like user home folder, etc.!

It's obvious that current representation produces either too detailed full names (with path) with truncated filenames (the ...

I should say that FreeFileSync is quite an interesting sync application that is feature rich, customizable and well comparable with Unison that I know very well. But I cannot find convenient visual representation for syncing deep folder hierarchies with nesting levels over say 10 or more. I ...

I played a little more and found another related issue. The problem is that if view mode is set to items only (without paths), their related folders (paths) cannot be identified without manually hovering mouse over them.

See the following screenshots:
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I should add that when I try to use FreeFileSync on my real-world sync pair (just the same pairs as in Unison which I currently use for the real synchronization) I face files with nesting levels even more than 10 so full/relative path option produces very ugly text lines for these files: all pane ...

Hello!

I'm examining FreeFileSync after using Unison file sync (https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) for many years. Unison is quite a smart application and I never had problems with it, but it's development is actually stalled for many years and it lacks some new features.

It's fully a ...