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robin58 · 02-16-2014, 04:50 PM

Lots of questions and excuse me if I don't go back and requote each person individually.

1. No I only use one synch program. I had traditionally used Goodsync but because of this issue and some prior experiences with oddities with it I searched for some well liked freeware ones and decided to use FreeFileSync for a while to see if the problem continued.

2. Yes the "problem" still manifests itself.

3. Some may consider it "trivial" because of the relatively miniscule bandwidth. I considered it an issue because when as a user I am 100% positive I haven't changed metadata on a file, I start looking for the cause. Changed files can be an indication of malware or any number of issues. When one expects only half a dozen new files on a sync and one consistently sees multiple times that, I'd like to think most prudent computer users would investigate the reason.

4. Sure it's only a matter of maybe 10-15MB each time, but when using watched folders with some online services (the ones I use anyways), the transfer speed for 1000 x 100KB files in no equals the same transfer speed as for 1 x 100,000KB file. As these aren't the only files I back up in this manner to be blunt it just bugs me there are files that shouldn't be changing but for some reason are.

5. I am going to for the time being exclude all current opf files and only making sure I manually transfer those for any new books I add. Seeing as I add only a handful of books a week and rarely if ever change metadata once I have done so immediately after adding it, it should be easy to accomplish. I think I will also hold off on the next Calibre update and just keep monitoring the opf files until hopefully they have all changed to reflect the current version number (should be simple seeing as the date changes), then I'll run my sync program again and start monitoring it again.

It's not really a big issue and to be honest seeing as I have no custom tweaks or anything to speak of, if I ever did suffer a loss of my drive or needed to restore my library, I'd be more worried about the actual books than the metadata.

Thanks all for your input.

02-16-2014, 04:50 PM	#21
robin58 Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: iPad, Kindle Fire, Kindle PW, Nook ST	Lots of questions and excuse me if I don't go back and requote each person individually. 1. No I only use one synch program. I had traditionally used Goodsync but because of this issue and some prior experiences with oddities with it I searched for some well liked freeware ones and decided to use FreeFileSync for a while to see if the problem continued. 2. Yes the "problem" still manifests itself. 3. Some may consider it "trivial" because of the relatively miniscule bandwidth. I considered it an issue because when as a user I am 100% positive I haven't changed metadata on a file, I start looking for the cause. Changed files can be an indication of malware or any number of issues. When one expects only half a dozen new files on a sync and one consistently sees multiple times that, I'd like to think most prudent computer users would investigate the reason. 4. Sure it's only a matter of maybe 10-15MB each time, but when using watched folders with some online services (the ones I use anyways), the transfer speed for 1000 x 100KB files in no equals the same transfer speed as for 1 x 100,000KB file. As these aren't the only files I back up in this manner to be blunt it just bugs me there are files that shouldn't be changing but for some reason are. 5. I am going to for the time being exclude all current opf files and only making sure I manually transfer those for any new books I add. Seeing as I add only a handful of books a week and rarely if ever change metadata once I have done so immediately after adding it, it should be easy to accomplish. I think I will also hold off on the next Calibre update and just keep monitoring the opf files until hopefully they have all changed to reflect the current version number (should be simple seeing as the date changes), then I'll run my sync program again and start monitoring it again. It's not really a big issue and to be honest seeing as I have no custom tweaks or anything to speak of, if I ever did suffer a loss of my drive or needed to restore my library, I'd be more worried about the actual books than the metadata. Thanks all for your input.