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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I use a hard drive library and thumb drive backup, too. Thanks for the pointer to Free File Sync -- I'll give it a try. It sounds very useful! |
It works here, but you need to look at the docs and understand the options.
It has several different methods for determining what what to sync. The default is to look for differences in file size and time stamp. I had a case not that long back where Free File Sync thought
everything had changed after a library update, and it wanted to sync multiple gigabytes of files.
The underlying issue was a change to Daylight Savings Time. Windows handled that automatically, but it meant every time stamp on the thumb drive was suddenly out of date as far as FFS was concerned. I had to turn off the time stamp check and have it just compare file size to sync the most recent changes.
It reinforced my hatred for DST and my wish the entire misbegotten notion would go away.
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Dennis