Tree View

Posts: 2 · welo 4 Dec 2011, 10:44

Thanks for this great piece of software! I really love it so far!

I've searched the forums but couldn't find any discussion about visualizing
the file comparison result in a (collapsible) tree. I really missed that
feature. This would help a lot in some situations!

Sorry if this has been discussed before - I would really be surprised if not!

welo

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 4 Dec 2011, 18:35

Indeed, this feature request is discussed here:
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Posts: 2 · welo 9 Dec 2011, 15:44

Thanks for the pointer! I will post there...

Posts: 3 · zalithka 17 Apr 2015, 17:33

As bad as I know thread necrophilia is, it's better than having a thousand with the same question.. So:

I'd love to navigate my sync folders differences in a tree view.. It sucks having to scroll through a folder you know has thousands of changes, just to see the couple hundred important ones, near (but not at) the bottom.

Simply collapsing the tree of "known mass changes" would spare us a few more heartbeats for something else. :)

The link above seems to be dead these days, goes to a 404 page. Is there perhaps another tracker somewhere for this project? Otherwise, where could feature requests be found these days?

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 18 Apr 2015, 10:14

As bad as I know thread necrophilia is, it's better than having a thousand with the same question.. So:

I'd love to navigate my sync folders differences in a tree view.. It sucks having to scroll through a folder you know has thousands of changes, just to see the couple hundred important ones, near (but not at) the bottom.

Simply collapsing the tree of "known mass changes" would spare us a few more heartbeats for something else. :)

The link above seems to be dead these days, goes to a 404 page. Is there perhaps another tracker somewhere for this project? Otherwise, where could feature requests be found these days?zalithka

What is the problem with the currently implemented tree view?

Posts: 3 · zalithka 10 Jul 2015, 18:25

What is the problem with the currently implemented tree view?Zenju

My apologies.. I don't remember getting any email notifications of this, so I didn't realise you'd responded.

The current view is a straight list view, which makes it difficult to see the structure of the files being synchronised. I'm referring to the same collapsible tree view as mentioned in the first post above. For an example of what I mean, perhaps you should check out the interface for Meld?

In the mean time, I've attached a screenshot of FFS and Meld, showing a comparison of the same folders.

Posts: 1 · ivanny 15 Aug 2015, 15:33

My apologies.. I don't remember getting any email notifications of this, so I didn't realise you'd responded.

The current view is a straight list view, which makes it difficult to see the structure of the files being synchronised. I'm referring to the same collapsible tree view as mentioned in the first post above. For an example of what I mean, perhaps you should check out the interface for Meld?

In the mean time, I've attached a screenshot of FFS and Meld, showing a comparison of the same folders.zalithka

I totally in agreement, tree view will be a better way to immediatly point out the differences.
After that, I think that FreeFile Sync has no revals!