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I did not actively seek out the "Check for updates Now". I saw a dialog box appear that offered/recommended/suggested it to me without informing me it would close the windows and make me lose all my comparison progress/syncing progress.

Now that you mention it, it is possible I had just opened ...

A fraction of a second for a pop up window is too much? Also, you keep ignoring the proposed code: "IF and ONLY IF" someone is in the middle of something that would be cancelled/lost from the reset, would such a pop-up arise. If you weren't working on something you wouldn't be affected. Only those ...

I reference that only as an example.

I repeat; not all programs forcibly reset mid project when updating. Even Microsoft Word will let you know you've changed something and that changes will be lost if you close the program without saving, are you sure you want to close the program. And I hate ...

That could work too, but as my programming recommendation shows, the pop up wouldn't arise for everyone who clicked update, but would arise only for those who clicked update and were apparently mid-job after the update has been downloaded and the program needs to restart. If you were mid-job at that ...

"auto-update" doesn't necessarily mean "close the windows with the syncs and file comparisons that have been going on for hours and hours on end".

One solution is to add programming along the lines of the following (this is very crude):

If (Program_Needs_To_Restart_To_Finish_Update AND User_Is ...

There's a difference between "Update" and "Update and Restart" and even then it is common for programs to remember their "state" immediately before its "Restart" so as to not harm the user. Even then, I update Linux regularly, without it closing my programs or causing data loss etc. Other programs ...

The software will only do what it is told to do, but the programming appears to tell the program to do things that are not clearly disclosed to the user or are not provided as an option for the user to change in the settings windows.

1. Syncing locations does include overwriting files, but there is ...

What business does it have automatically deleting my Recycle Bin files to begin with?

This program is starting to scare me. I just did a comparison based upon file size between two very large folders. When selecting "two-way" it decided it wanted to overwrite some of the larger files with the ...

I'm running Windows of FFS that take many hours to even compare, let along sync. After I saw a message window saying it needed to update, I agreed, and then it closed all my windows and ignored all their progress. This wasted so many hours of time, I can't even tell you. It far exceeded the value of ...

I have, on numerous occasions, manually copied recycle bin folders (outside of FFS) and never had any issues as you have described.

That doesn't explain; why would it, by default, not copy the recycling bin. Its a folder. Refusing to copy it and identifying it for deletion doesn't conform to the standard rules of, what I would expect, from file syncing software.

Thank you to both of you. It turns out, though I can't nail it down entirely, sometimes it will show on the list of files (the files to be deleted) and sometimes it does not.

I do not see how clicking the green gear and going to custom resolves this.

Though it turns out the files it always wants ...

I don't mean to be rude, but if you don't know what's in the bottom right corner of the window of FFA, then that leaves me very concerned about the validity of your claimed assistance. Either way, this is what it looks like.

"custom" doesn't appear to resolve this problem.

How do I make it stop "keeping track" of deletions? I don't want it to make decisions like that. I'm consolidating (maybe) dozens of different but similar folders that I'm trying to fully consolidate. I had multiple copies of these folders to avoid losing data, but now I find the need to consolidate ...

I don't know how to see what files it is referencing, how do I do that? How does it draw the conclusion that files are deleted from one side? I've had it ignore files that were 0 bytes vs multiple MB in size without a problem in the world or a declaration of any sort.

I don't even remotely understand this. I don't want any files deleted, but aren't they supposed to be updated and not deleted? I can't even find a way for the program to show me what files its going to delete, it references them in the bottom right corner, but in the viewing area, showing those ...