The Default Sync Method Should Be - Update

[therube]

The Default Sync Method Should Be - Update

Because it is "safer".

IMHO.


And aside from RTFM or anything else.
There is less likely to go wrong with Update sync vs. other methods.

A user then wants to use some other method, fine, let them.
But make them make that conscious effort to do so.


(As it is, I use Update.
I might use some other method, but I'd have to read & understand, very well, just what the implications are in using other methods [& I don't know, particularly].

The other day someone asked me... & I said - FreeFileSync.
And I threw it onto their computer.
And I said "Update - because it is safer".

And they said, well what about... & I said, "Update is safer".
And if you want to use some other method, then go about & read & learn - first.)

then by the same token, IMO, & in IMO even if that isn't the reasoning ;-), is that the default Sync method should be an Update sync, rather then Two way, simply cause, well, IMO, Update is "safer", in particular for a novice user.

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[Zenju]

IMHO "two way" is safe enough, and also a "true synchronization", which is what one can reasonably expect from a sync tool, while "update" is not. "Two way" does not delete any files upon first sync, and even during the second sync, the recycle bin will be used.

[xCSxXenon]

IMHO "two way" is safe enough, and also a "true synchronization", which is what one can reasonably expect from a sync tool, while "update" is not. "Two way" does not delete any files upon first sync, and even during the second sync, the recycle bin will be used.

+1 Couldn't agree more

[daveman]

I would like an option to set the default sync method.

Should'nt be too hard to set up?

dave