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The folders should have been identical. What is going on?. Regards Keith
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I copied a folder from USB stick to Desktop and immediately used freefilesynch to compare..
The folders should have been identical. What is going on?. Regards Keith
The folders should have been identical. What is going on?. Regards Keith
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If you hoover your mouse over one of the yellow/orange lightning symbol icons mid between each entry, FFS should give some info on why it thinks there is a conflict.
> I copied a folder from USB stick to Desktop ...
Did you copy that folder manually (outside FFS)?
You use a two-way sync.
Did you ever run the FFS sync before your (assumed) manual copy action.
If so, you also copied the FFS database file from the USB drive to your desktop.
For your Desktop side, such USB side database file makes no sense to FFS (as they are location specific)
and likely creates the conflicts.
If the above is the case, you can best one-time delete the Desktop and USB side database files ("sync.ffs_db"), and then run the FFS Compare and Sync again. This will then create new, valid database files on each side.
> I copied a folder from USB stick to Desktop ...
Did you copy that folder manually (outside FFS)?
You use a two-way sync.
Did you ever run the FFS sync before your (assumed) manual copy action.
If so, you also copied the FFS database file from the USB drive to your desktop.
For your Desktop side, such USB side database file makes no sense to FFS (as they are location specific)
and likely creates the conflicts.
If the above is the case, you can best one-time delete the Desktop and USB side database files ("sync.ffs_db"), and then run the FFS Compare and Sync again. This will then create new, valid database files on each side.
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If I remember correctly, copying files from a FAT32 memory stick to NTFS leads to difference in files times (seconds).
Is this your scenario?
But there are two other things I have observed.
First:
Why this file is missing on the right?
Pictures\Paintings\Southern Africa\
Oudtshoom.jpg
Second:
There are two set of same named files with a leading blank on one of them, that the manual copy removed, resulting in only one file on the right:
Pictures\Paintings\Birds\
" Cape Sugabird.jpg"
"Cape Sugabird.jpg"
Pictures\Paintings\South African Wasser\
" Lesotho Highlands Water Project.jpg"
"Lesotho Highlands Water Project.jpg"
Windows File explorer doesn't permit leading or trailing blanks when naming files but other file manager did.
Looks like the manual copy first copied the version without the leading blank and then copied the version with the leading blank, simultaneously removing the leading blank thus overwriting the first version.
Is this your scenario?
But there are two other things I have observed.
First:
Why this file is missing on the right?
Pictures\Paintings\Southern Africa\
Oudtshoom.jpg
Second:
There are two set of same named files with a leading blank on one of them, that the manual copy removed, resulting in only one file on the right:
Pictures\Paintings\Birds\
" Cape Sugabird.jpg"
"Cape Sugabird.jpg"
Pictures\Paintings\South African Wasser\
" Lesotho Highlands Water Project.jpg"
"Lesotho Highlands Water Project.jpg"
Windows File explorer doesn't permit leading or trailing blanks when naming files but other file manager did.
Looks like the manual copy first copied the version without the leading blank and then copied the version with the leading blank, simultaneously removing the leading blank thus overwriting the first version.
