Hello,
I would really like, if possible, that in the Update synchronization mode, only files on the left side that are not present in any subfolder on the right side would appear. In other words, the comparison could not be based on the full file path, but only on the file name (and extension).
This feature would be very useful for people like me who have very old backups, where folder names on the PC and the external drive have changed over time, and now when trying to synchronize, it shows that nothing is in sync.
[Feature request] Mark file to copy only if not available in any sub-folder
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Freefilesync does detect moved files but it is quite confusing to which priority it is handled.
I couldn't get it sorted out on the fly if it is handling the target directory as 'master' - not moving anything in the aufdatieren / update mode (not the imaging mode) in it, just adding the non found files, non found on the current directories or found in other directories, and skipping the found duplicates at the copy.
Handy is that at least in the direct same folder compare you can blend in all identical files and by a simple shift-marking get rid of them- so at the end emptying these seconary backups one directory after another, you end of with a cleaned secondary backup which merged in the primary does not produce duplicates.
I think to write a script that runs all through making a hash list of al target files in the big old collecting archive and purge with that all files out of the secondary backups I wanted to merge in. Still this will be only on some special linux and not ready for general use.
It would be great if freefilessync could do this.
I couldn't get it sorted out on the fly if it is handling the target directory as 'master' - not moving anything in the aufdatieren / update mode (not the imaging mode) in it, just adding the non found files, non found on the current directories or found in other directories, and skipping the found duplicates at the copy.
Handy is that at least in the direct same folder compare you can blend in all identical files and by a simple shift-marking get rid of them- so at the end emptying these seconary backups one directory after another, you end of with a cleaned secondary backup which merged in the primary does not produce duplicates.
I think to write a script that runs all through making a hash list of al target files in the big old collecting archive and purge with that all files out of the secondary backups I wanted to merge in. Still this will be only on some special linux and not ready for general use.
It would be great if freefilessync could do this.
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Proposed before, and declined. That is no longer a syncing scenario, and FFS is for syncing. You could messily get it working by pointing every folder in a path to the same destination folder, but that is an awful idea.
