Folder System Volume Information

Posts: 20 · nunoleite 10 Sep 2009, 13:16

Hi!
The folder "System Volume Information" is not appearing in the synchronization or comparison. Is this ok?
I know this is a special folder, but as Recycled is appearing i think this should appear too, or are you removing this by default from synchronizing?

Thanks
Nuno Leite
www.nunoleite.com

Posts: 7051 · Zenju 10 Sep 2009, 13:39

Hi!
The folder "System Volume Information" is not appearing in the synchronization or comparison. Is this ok?
I know this is a special folder, but as Recycled is appearing i think this should appear too, or are you removing this by default from synchronizing?

Thanks
Nuno Leite
www.nunoleite.comnunoleite

There are two folders that are excluded by default: "\RECYCLER" and "System Volume Information". Basically this is supposed to be a feature, because synchronization of both is no valid usecase.
On the other hand, there is of course the risk, users might think, the tool misses some files.
Maybe I should change the logic to simply include all files and folders, as this is more transparent.

-Zenju

Posts: 20 · nunoleite 10 Sep 2009, 14:17

Hi!
The folder "System Volume Information" is not appearing in the synchronization or comparison. Is this ok?
I know this is a special folder, but as Recycled is appearing i think this should appear too, or are you removing this by default from synchronizing?

Thanks
Nuno Leite
www.nunoleite.comnunoleite

Yes, i think that's better, because for example i'm making a mirror of my portable hard drive, and i have this drive with FAT32 and instead of "Recycler", FAT32 uses "Recycled" as the name for recycled bin. Like this you would have to cover all partition types to know what folders to exclude automatically.

If you choose to include all files and folders, then we have the choice to exclude using the exclude filter. So i think that's a better option.

Thanks, and great job.
Nuno Leite
www.nunoleite.com

Posts: 7051 · Zenju 10 Sep 2009, 14:50

Yes, i think that's better, because for example i'm making a mirror of my portable hard drive, and i have this drive with FAT32 and instead of "Recycler", FAT32 uses "Recycled" as the name for recycled bin. Like this you would have to cover all partition types to know what folders to exclude automatically.

If you choose to include all files and folders, then we have the choice to exclude using the exclude filter. So i think that's a better option.

Thanks, and great job.
Nuno Leite
www.nunoleite.comnunoleite

I agree, sometimes less implicit logic is more, I'll change this behaviour vor v2.3.

-Zenju

Posts: 2 · volband 1 Oct 2009, 16:55

So how do i ignore that "System Volume Information" folder? I've
tried adding "\System Volume Information\*" and "\System*"
to my exludes and I still get sync errors that that directory is not
accessible then that it can't be created on the target.

Posts: 7051 · Zenju 1 Oct 2009, 17:17

Both version should be working! Could you provide your full configuration so
that I can have a look where the problem is?

Regards, Zenju

Posts: 2 · volband 1 Oct 2009, 20:46

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>  

<FreeFileSync XmlType="GUI">  

<MainConfig>  

<Comparison>  

<Variant>ByTimeAndSize</Variant>  

<FileTimeTolerance>2</FileTimeTolerance>  

<TraverseDirectorySymlinks>false</TraverseDirectorySymlinks>  

</Comparison>  

<Synchronization>  

<Directions>  

<LeftOnly>right</LeftOnly>  

<RightOnly>right</RightOnly>  

<LeftNewer>right</LeftNewer>  

<RightNewer>right</RightNewer>  

<Different>right</Different>  

<Conflict>none</Conflict>  

</Directions>  

<CopyFileSymlinks>true</CopyFileSymlinks>  

<VerifyCopiedFiles>false</VerifyCopiedFiles>  

</Synchronization>  

<Miscellaneous>  

<Filter>  

<Active>true</Active>  

<Include>*</Include>  

<Exclude>\System Volume

Information\*&#x0A;\System*&#x0A;</Exclude>  

</Filter>  

<DeletionPolicy>MoveToRecycleBin</DeletionPolicy>  

<CustomDeletionFolder></CustomDeletionFolder>  

</Miscellaneous>  

<FolderPairs>  

<Pair>  

<Left>d:\</Left>  

<Right>C:\backup\My Dropbox</Right>  

</Pair>  

</FolderPairs>  

</MainConfig>  

<GuiConfig>  

<HideFiltered>false</HideFiltered>  

<HandleError>Popup</HandleError>  

<SyncPreviewActive>true</SyncPreviewActive>  

</GuiConfig>  

</FreeFileSync>

Actual error is...

Error traversing directory:
"d:\System Volume Information"
Windows Error Code 5: Access is denied.
Ignore this error, retry or abort?

Posts: 7051 · Zenju 1 Oct 2009, 22:16

This is very strange, your configuration is okay, basically this should work.
I tried on my PC (with your exclude strings) and excluding "System Volume
Information" worked correctly.

In order to track this problem down, could you do a test: Since you get this
error message during traversing, the folder "d:\System Volume
Information" is shown on the comparison results view, right?
Then activate and deactivate the filter to see if this row gets (de-)selected
according to filter settings.

If you can reproduce the problem you can also open a new bug tracker item.