A couple feature requests concerning ACLs/Ownership/Group copy

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mwffs3

I have a couple requests/suggestions to make syncing much more efficient in some situations, when using the "Copy DACL, SACL, Owner, Group" option:

First:

Using the recommended "fail-safe file copy" and "Copy DACL, SACL, Owner, Group" options, the sync process seems to copy the file to the destination with a temporary filename, and then, after that, applying owner/group/ACL settings.

This causes a LOT of wasted traffic if FreeFileSync is unable to set ower/group/ACLs for whatever reason.

My suggestion for this one is to create the temp file and apply the ownership and ACL info to it BEFORE the data is copied - meaning a permissions issue will fail immediately rather than after the full file data has synced.

Second:

Add an option to set DACL, SACL, Owner, Group *when possible* - ie, don't fail and remove file if syncing ownership/ACLs fails.

Third:

Make the option to copy DACL/SACL/owner group *per-job* or better yet, *per folder pair* rather than global

Thanks!