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| Guest | How does Foldershare detect change? I don't understand how foldershare detects a change in a file. I'm used to unix rsync, where two versions of a file are considered different if they differ in timestamp or size -- or as an option, if they differ in checkksum. Foldersort seems a bit more subtle. For example: - changing a long-ago timestamp to slightly-less long ago does not appear to trigger a copy, though changing it to 'now' does - moving a file out of the foldershare directory and then back in also doesn't (so it doesn't appear to use a filesystem-trigger) - I haven't checked file sizes, but I presume that any change in file size would be interpreted as a file change Any help out there? |
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| Guest | Re: How does Foldershare detect change? If the contents of a file change, that is seen as a change. FolderShare does not take into account timestamps. Jeremy Epling "tg" <tg@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:FDB43CBF-0ABC-4FC9-8492-948266336B0A@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: How does Foldershare detect change? On Thu, 29 May 2008 17:25:52 -0700, "Jeremy Epling [MSFT]" <jepling@xxxxxx> wrote:
I can understand why FolderShare does not waste bandwidth resources to transfers files with later timestamps and unchanged contents, however if FolderShare could update any earlier timestamps to the latest ones, that feature would better inform users that the files have been synchronized. Tony | ||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: How does Foldershare detect change? On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:46:10 -0400, "Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@xxxxxx> wrote:
FolderShare can not accurately detect file changes or differences. I'd been merrily assuming that FolderShare could detect file differences and would synchronize appropriately but today I have discovered that indeed it can't tell all changes and misses some. I've found changed files where the file size never changed and FolderShare never picked up the change and propagated the new file version. So be warned - this system is flakey. Would someone at MS please address this issue. FS has no ticket or formal support system, just this group where MS staff appear to pick and choose where to respond and what to address. Maybe MS should either take this business seriously or else can it, because this present amateurish effort is less than useful. Tony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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