Problems with finding correct files to sync

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dlines

I have had this program for quite a while, but have never really used it. I had been using a competitor's program, but was a little perturbed when I found out that they missed a whole new sub-directory that I know had been installed on one of my drives. I started to use your program and found that what I had checked, it had found some of those missing files. Today, I ran out of space on my backup device (mirror) and went to find out why. I noticed that there were a number of files existing on the "right" hand side drive that did not exist on the "left" hand side. Your program did not find these files, I found it by knowing that these files existed from the previous file sync program. Any ideas why these files would not be found for deleting. What might I be doing incorrectly?

Thanks.

David
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Plerry

If you select the Mirror sync variant in the Sync Settings (F8), FFS should delete all files existing on the right-hand side that do not exist on the left-hand side (assuming a default Include Filter "*" and an empty or default Exclude Filter).
If you select the Update or Two-way variant this will not necessarily be the case.
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dlines

I have configured it the way you suggest, but it is not finding files on the right-hand side that I know are there, but should not be because they are left-over from the previous File Syncing program.

Thanks for responding.

David