I cannot for the life of me figure out how to select one folder, say: X:\Music2\CDs\Country and copy it's contents into another folder, say x:\Music\CDs, while only overwriting SMALLER files which may already exist in the destination, or copying whatever missing files that aren't currently IN the destination.
Everything I've tried either overwrites older files, or overwrites newer files, but I want to ignore the date and time completely! I want to overwrite "smaller" or "missing" files in the destination only.
Help!
-david
How to overwrite smaller files ONLY?!
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seems to be similar with my problem. and nobody seems to answer here.
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Did you tried User Manual - Exclude Items via Filter ?
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Yes, I did actually. The problem is that the filter requires a fixed filesize, and I can find no way to say source "larger than" destination. The filters ask for rules like: copy if file is > x bytes or copy if < x bytes.
I've basically come to the conclusion that freefilesync does not have this capability, as it was intended to synchronize based on "date, time, and size", and not "size".
I've basically come to the conclusion that freefilesync does not have this capability, as it was intended to synchronize based on "date, time, and size", and not "size".
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Re-reading your posts now I understand your needs and in FFS in "Synchronization settings", "Variant", "Category" is missing "Left size is bigger".
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Exactly. This whole issue is a little perplexing to me, since, nowadays it's pretty common to combine media folders (MP3, MP4 files, etc...) and for any two files with identical naming, to want to keep the larger (higher bitrate, better resolution, ... file). Doesn't it seem like FFS would be tailor made for such a task?!
Doh!
Doh!
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by eggehad » 03 Jan 2018, 13:05
Yes, I did actually. The problem is that the filter requires a fixed filesize, and I can find no way to say source "larger than" destination. The filters ask for rules like: copy if file is > x bytes or copy if < x bytes.
I've basically come to the conclusion that freefilesync does not have this capability, as it was intended to synchronize based on "date, time, and size", and not "size".
Yes, I did actually. The problem is that the filter requires a fixed filesize, and I can find no way to say source "larger than" destination. The filters ask for rules like: copy if file is > x bytes or copy if < x bytes.
I've basically come to the conclusion that freefilesync does not have this capability, as it was intended to synchronize based on "date, time, and size", and not "size".
I do not understand how to implement this.Re-reading your posts now I understand your needs and in FFS in "Synchronization settings", "Variant", "Category" is missing "Left size is bigger". Gianni1962, 04 Jan 2018, 00:11
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I'm facing the same problem. I have two folders with MP3 files and I would like to sync only files that are bigger than the same named file on the other folder, as they embed the cover. As sometimes the bigger file is in one folder and sometimes it is in the other, I would simply run the sync once and then swap the source and the target and run it again.
Unfortunately I didn't figure out how to do it.
Can someone, please, give a closing answer to this topic?
Thank you.
Unfortunately I didn't figure out how to do it.
Can someone, please, give a closing answer to this topic?
Thank you.
