New feature request - advanced syncronize
Posted: 04 Aug 2006, 21:57
I have ran into my first shortcoming of AllSync!
Maybe there is a way around the problem already - but I just can't find it... Here we go:
Problem
I have a lot of pictures on my drive. These are automatically copied to a network drive, using AllSync - no problems so far.
Another user needs to get these pictures pushed out to her automatically, so I'm trying to set up a sync operation FROM the network drive TO her local disc (they must be copied to her local disc). Normal sync works fine, but the problem starts here:
Say that she has gotten "folder 1", "folder 2" and "folder 3" pushed out to her, "folder 1" she doesn't need so she deletes it on her local drive, "folder 2" is ok, "folder 3" is almost ok, but she deletes a few files inside the folder. Now guess what happens next time the sync is running... Everything that she has deleted on her local drive - is pushed right back out to her because Allsync of course thinks that she is missing the files. So I'm back to square one.
Solution:
It doesn't work to use the settings for deleting files in source that are deleted at destination. The files on the network drive should never be deleted. And this is where I can't find any usefull settings in Allsync. What I need is this:
A sync setting that keeps a record of ALL copied folders and/or files, so that ones a sync operation has been running, copying folder 1-3, it will not look at those folders again when the next sync is run; it will simply say "I have copied those folders already - what is new in the source"
Get my point? I guess it's a feature somewhere between sync and update. The only problem I see with it is that NEW files could be added to already copied folders - and those should of course be copied, so it's really only a "do-not-delete-files-from-already-copied-folders-function" I need.
Wow, that turned into a long explanation I hope you see the point - otherwise please get back to me. I would love this feature so much! Allsync has been my life saviour for the last three years! Amazing program! It's the first time I've been able to out-match it
Best regards
/Kasper
Maybe there is a way around the problem already - but I just can't find it... Here we go:
Problem
I have a lot of pictures on my drive. These are automatically copied to a network drive, using AllSync - no problems so far.
Another user needs to get these pictures pushed out to her automatically, so I'm trying to set up a sync operation FROM the network drive TO her local disc (they must be copied to her local disc). Normal sync works fine, but the problem starts here:
Say that she has gotten "folder 1", "folder 2" and "folder 3" pushed out to her, "folder 1" she doesn't need so she deletes it on her local drive, "folder 2" is ok, "folder 3" is almost ok, but she deletes a few files inside the folder. Now guess what happens next time the sync is running... Everything that she has deleted on her local drive - is pushed right back out to her because Allsync of course thinks that she is missing the files. So I'm back to square one.
Solution:
It doesn't work to use the settings for deleting files in source that are deleted at destination. The files on the network drive should never be deleted. And this is where I can't find any usefull settings in Allsync. What I need is this:
A sync setting that keeps a record of ALL copied folders and/or files, so that ones a sync operation has been running, copying folder 1-3, it will not look at those folders again when the next sync is run; it will simply say "I have copied those folders already - what is new in the source"
Get my point? I guess it's a feature somewhere between sync and update. The only problem I see with it is that NEW files could be added to already copied folders - and those should of course be copied, so it's really only a "do-not-delete-files-from-already-copied-folders-function" I need.
Wow, that turned into a long explanation I hope you see the point - otherwise please get back to me. I would love this feature so much! Allsync has been my life saviour for the last three years! Amazing program! It's the first time I've been able to out-match it
Best regards
/Kasper