Exporting list of files to sync

[Anonymous]

Hi,

thank you for FreeFileSync. I've discovered it latterly and find it really
nice!
One question anyway. I keep MD5 signatures on both sides (to compare and keep
on the long term). I use the manually exported FileList.csv from GUI
(Advanced>export...). Could it be an option to export this list from command
line ? And for easier parsing, could the base paths (say left folder) be
recorded in the file as they are reported in the log file? Then would it be
possible to be able to "comment" (There seems to be no standard way to comment
lines in CSV!) first lines (Legend) to jumb to file paths without ambiguity?
Maybe exporting to XML or YAML/JSON?
Thanks again,
Best regards
jg

[Zenju]

There are no plans to add command-line support for the csv export. Since it
respects current view filter setting, you'll need to adapt settings via a GUI
anyway. I forgot to export base directories, though but added them for the
next release. CSV in general seems to be the simplest file format that excel
or open office's calc can read, which was to reason to choose this format.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

thank your for your answer.

>There are no plans to add command-line support for the csv export. Since it
respects current view filter setting, you'll need to >adapt settings via a GUI
anyway.
Using command line is csv view is for background usage, once settings are
tuned!
>I forgot to export base directories, though but added them for the next
release.
That's nice and will be using it of course.

>CSV in general seems to be the simplest file format that excel or open
office's calc can read, which was to reason
> to choose this format.
I agree, I'm just asking. It's no big deal on user side anyway. Maybe log file
could be in CSV too?

Thanks

[Zenju]

The log is aimed to be viewed by ordinary text editors. But it's format is
regular, so that it is parsable, at least in theory.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

thank you very much for adding the folder pairs in the exported list. So...
asking for another enhancement : could it be possible to identify the pairs
easily in the list as relative paths are all together and it's not easy to
recognize when we jump to another pair.

Thank you for your project. I use it with Webdrive for remote sync and it's a
nice combination.
jg

[Zenju]

Just show colum "directory" or "full path".

[Anonymous]

Hi,
thank you! didn't know this. "Full Path" column remains empty in GUI and
exported csv, but "directory" is all I needed.

[Zenju]

>"Full Path" column remains empty
I guess you mean it is empty if there is no file, but is shown otherwise?
"Directory" OTOH is shown unconditionally. I should harmonize this behavior
and also show "Full path" unconditionally.