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Old 12-18-2007   #1 (permalink)
NickB.


 
 

Excluded files

I've just discoverd FolderShare and have been trying to get to grips with it
over last few days. On synching Home PC and Work PC, I find that Foldershare
libraries register fewer files per library than on the computers themselves.
Much digging revealed these were mainly redundant files (orphaned temporary
files, e.g. ~.doc, and 'thumbs.db' ), but also all files/folders with names
in unicode (in this case, Farsi) and "*.ink" files, i.e. all shortcuts.

This final omission is an issue which is very important to me, as my
directories are structured with lots of file and folder shortcuts.

I haven't seen this problem aired before in this group. Is it common
knowledge? Is there a workaround?

Thanks


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Old 12-19-2007   #2 (permalink)
AlexData


 
 

RE: Excluded files

Could you make a list of files that you notice wont get synched?
like...

*.db
*.lnk
*.ink
~.doc
*ÅØÆ€*.unicode

You caught my interest with this post... and if this is so
and the facts that several major bugs just occured... then we should
make lists about bugs and errors...
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Old 01-12-2008   #3 (permalink)
NickB.


 
 

RE: Excluded files

Hi there

Apologies for delay in replying - have been away.

Your list seems to reflect what I found to date, i.e. those files on my Home
computer which are missing on my Work computer:

*.db [these were all in fact "thumbs.db"]
*.ink [shortcuts]
~.doc [orphaned temporary Word files]
*ÅØÆ€*.unicode [Farsi, in our case]

I've read about Unicode problems elsewhere on this forum. I don't think
anyone should be concerned about *.db or ~.doc files. But the failure to
synch shortcuts seems a major issue.

It would be useful if others could use Explorer to count the number of files
in synched folders, and examine which files account for the discrepancy. I
used TreeSize on both computers (enables you to count by sub-directory and
file extension) to 'drill down' into each directory until I found the missing
files, and identified which types they all were.

Thanks!




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