Comparison by file time only

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Joined: 31 May 2026

maykelbembibre

If it happens that the left file has the same modification date as the right file but a different size, I see it as a byte corruption case. Because if it hasn't been modified as its date says, why does it have different contents? This program assigns by default the action of updating the right item to these cases. If it were a corruption case, the corruption would be propagated to the right side. For this reason, I think the comparison settings should have a new option "File time" that only compares files by their modification date. This way, I can make sure that all updates to the right side are from files I've definitely modified deliberately.

Or, this could be solved by just comparing by file time and size but the cases where dates are identical but size different could have their action default to conflict for manual resolution instead of overwriting the right file by default. That way, if this strange case ever happens, the user has the final say about what to do.

Thank you very much.