Suppose I have a folder with lots of files. The dates have gotten changed on some of them, and I have to get them sorted out. The trouble comes when there are files with the same content but different dates. Imagine when I am trying to deal with such files on a medium where write time is much longer than read time.
If I compare by length and date, these files will show up as different, so they'll be copied, incurring write overhead.
If I compare by contents, these files will turn up as equal, which means they won't be changed at all.
Is there a way to tell FreeFileSync that when there are files with the same content but different dates, the dates get changed to match without copying the contents? Probably the older of the two dates should be used by default, though an option to choose the newer one might be useful.
Is there a way to make dates match on files with equal content?
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