I'm syncing a new (to me) MacBook Pro and an iMac; everything on the MacBook Pro was copied there from the iMac using Migration Assistant less than two weeks ago. I have FFS set to compare file size & time and to do a two-way sync. FFS is identifying over 5,000 files as both having changed since the last sync, but these are just archived files and only rarely even opened. The files I've checked are the same size on both computers and have the same creation and modification dates. I'm having to scroll through 5,400 files to find and verify the handful of legitimate changes. Is there a setting I'm over-looking or some way to get FFS to ignore these files? Could there be a setting on one of the computers that's triggering this?
Thanks.
FFS Misidentifying Files That Need to be Synced
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Are you directory pairs correct?
As in maybe the Target is close to what you want, but not quite?
Might there be a "time difference" between the Mac systems, as in time is treated "differently", so where Mac sees them as "equal", there is an actual difference that FFS is picking up on (similar to FileTimeTolerance on Windows)?
As in maybe the Target is close to what you want, but not quite?
Might there be a "time difference" between the Mac systems, as in time is treated "differently", so where Mac sees them as "equal", there is an actual difference that FFS is picking up on (similar to FileTimeTolerance on Windows)?
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Thanks for the suggestions. Checking the directory pairs is the first thing I did, and repeatedly. It's finding the right folders, but it seems to be misinterpreting something about the files.
I just checked the time and it's the same on both machines, and is set from the same remote server. Whether FFS could see them as different, I don't know.
I just checked the time and it's the same on both machines, and is set from the same remote server. Whether FFS could see them as different, I don't know.
