Limit Comparison to previous 30 days

[DLR99]

I would like to limit the date range over which the comparison is done to the last x days because a) we only keep 30 days in the destination folder and b) it would decrease the amount of time for the comparison. Is that possible?

[Plerry]

https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=tips-and-tricks#select-time-span

[DLR99]

Thank you Plerry, I saw that, but I need this to be a rolling 30 day window -I always want to only look at the last 30 days. The link you sent shows only a specific set of dates - I would need to update that each day which would not work for us. Is there a way to make this always 30 days from the current day ?

[xCSxXenon]

You want to look in the filter settings

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[DLR99]

Thanks xCSxXenon - that seems like it would work, but if I understand it correctly, FFS would still do a comparison between ALL files in the Source and Destination folders before the filter is applied to the comparison results. That would potentially waste a lot of valuable time.

[xCSxXenon]

It shouldn't compare, but any type of filter still requires all files to be looked at to determine if they should be included. FFS can't skip files it doesn't know the timestamp of, and it can't know the timestamp without looking at it.

[DLR99]

Thanks again xCSxXenon - that is a great point. I am currently running some more tests - this may be the best solution. Appreciate your help.