Merge to New Location?

[fcbrants]

Hello!!

I've read the docs & searched the forums & haven't found a solution to my question, so my apologies if this is a repeat.

I would like to copy the merged contents of two directories into a third location, leaving the original files & folders untouched.

Is that possible?

Thanks!!

Franko

[Plerry]

It is possible, provided there is no overlap (in terms of folder- and file-names in the source (sub)foldertrees).
Suppose your first source folder is C:\[path_to_sourcefolder1]\Source1,
your second source folder is D:\[path_to_sourcefolder2]\Source2 and
your (merged) destination folder is H:\[path_to_destinationfolder]\Destination
You can define a single, Update variant FFS sync configuration using two left-right base folder pairs:
pair 1:
left base location C:\[path_to_sourcefolder1]\Source1
right base location H:\[path_to_destinationfolder]\Destination
pair 2:
left base location D:\[path_to_sourcefolder2]\Source2
right base location H:\[path_to_destinationfolder]\Destination

or you can define two separate Update variant FFS sync configurations, one for each of the two listed left-right base folder pairs.

When running the syncs, in the first case you will get a (correct) warning that there is an overlap between the (part of) the folder pairs, but provided there is no overlap as mentioned above, the warning can be ignored. In the second case, you need to run the two separate syncs sequentially (or at least: non-simultaneously), the order being irrelevant.

[fcbrants]

Perfect, thank you!!