Zip and download folders with many small files from remote locations
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When downloading many small files from Google Drive or other remote sources, the overhead from starting download, downloading, stopping download, etc can make it take significantly longer than the download speed of the Internet connection would suggest. Zipping and downloading those files all at once could alleviate this issue. Obviously making it an option is probably a good idea, and it would probably not be possible if downloading from a read-only remote location. But when downloading from, for example, a personal Google Drive folder, I could imagine creating a zip, downloading it, deleting it remotely and unzipping it locally right after. If there's something obvious I'm missing here, please let me know.
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> If there's something obvious I'm missing here, please let me know.
FreeFileSync (FFS) is a sync tool that works purely at individual file level.
All Compare, Copy, Overwrite, Delete and (potentially) Verification actions are performed at individual file level. Doing as you suggest would be a complete overhaul of the FFS concept and architecture, so don't expect this any time soon (if ever).
However, if your source would comprise a zip-file containing multiple file, FFS will gladly sync that (whole) zip-file for you.
FreeFileSync (FFS) is a sync tool that works purely at individual file level.
All Compare, Copy, Overwrite, Delete and (potentially) Verification actions are performed at individual file level. Doing as you suggest would be a complete overhaul of the FFS concept and architecture, so don't expect this any time soon (if ever).
However, if your source would comprise a zip-file containing multiple file, FFS will gladly sync that (whole) zip-file for you.
