Undetected Small Size Changes

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drmaligno

Hi. After researching both within the app and forums, I haven't succeed finding the answer to my issue.

I love this software. The one thing giving me headaches is with my music collection.

When I change the tag of a song, most of the times FreeFileSync, since the difference in size is so small, thinks the file has not change, so it doesn't get synced.

What do you advise to do in this situation? Is it possible to reduce the minimum size difference? Is there any other solution to this issue?

Thank you very much for this software and for your time.
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Zenju

By default any change to a file also changes the modification time which FFS will notice during comparison. If you have changed the file content, but the modification time of the file does not change, then something fishy is going on. It could be that the software you use to change the tag is deliberately programmed to not change the time. This is is bad idea, because of exactly the problem you have now.
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drmaligno

Thank you very much for your reply, Zenju.
That makes a lot of sense, I'll check into that.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks!