Yes, but my proposal does not require additional checkboxes or checkstatesMVV wrote:I already wrote about it:mslav wrote:Now I understand you. In fact, you want to have PRIORITY of content comparison before date comparison.MVV wrote:Maybe sync tool needs an option to check file contents before dates because this mode currently can't be realized directly with this two options 'ignore dates' and 'by contents'. Maybe visually this may be added as third state of 'ignore dates' checkbox - as 'grayed' state. So, if 'by contents' is checked and 'ignore dates' is grayed, TC will compare contents and then mark equal files with '=' or suggest to keep newer file if size/contents differ..
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But you suggest to change thing which is used for many years by TC users. This will cause mess. My suggestion just adds new mode and uses unused checkbox state (so logic remains).mslav wrote:Yes, but my proposal does not require additional checkboxes or checkstates
Note that 'ignore dates' checkbox currently does that it says - fully ignores file dates.
OK, you are right from the position of the formal logic. But in real life the state != is not very much informative because at the end you always need to know which file is more actual (newer). So I think everybody will use "greyed" state instead of "checked"MVV wrote:But you suggest to change thing which is used for many years by TC users. This will cause mess. My suggestion just adds new mode and uses unused checkbox state (so logic remains).mslav wrote:Yes, but my proposal does not require additional checkboxes or checkstates
Note that 'ignore dates' checkbox currently does that it says - fully ignores file dates.
I would prefer mslav solution but both will resolve the problem.
In my opinion should be less options possible - it is more clear for users I think.
In my opinion should be less options possible - it is more clear for users I think.
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I second this. I am using DC to compare hundreds of folders, On the left I have my master folder of photos, on the right I have another backup folder which "might" contain different/additional files. The files on the right all have screwed dates from when the files were copied (it updated the modification time). So now when I compare the folders in DC using "ignore date" and "by contents" it gives no useful indication of files that actually differ by content (rather than date). So it's basically useless for this task unless I first go and manually do a left > right sync of all the modification dates using some other program, which is doubling the amount of work I need to do.Balderstrom wrote:That's all the "!=" sign means, files have a different time stamp, not that they are different content-wise.
SyncTool, Compare:
[x] Ignore Date
[x] Compare by Content, Those files are NOT equal, !=
Why? You are IGNORING the date, thus SyncTool is telling you they are different so YOU can decide what to do with them. If you allow date comparison the Arrows miraculously appear.
It wouldn't matter what content the same named file has, once you Ignore Date, the only result you can get is "!=" or "==". The only --> or <-- results you will get are for missing files on either side.
This is expected behaviour, TC can't guess which file you intend to keep when you wont let it make a decision based on Date.
As noted, it would be better if we had:
Compare by ContentIf neither checked, then it will always compare by content. And would give the end user control.
- [x] If date is different
- [x] If size is different
I was going to post a screen shot for clarification but apparently your anti-spam policy wont let me. You can look it up here: imgur slash KZEgzPw.jpg
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Note "Picture 079.jpg" on the right is a zero byte file. I need some sort of indication that the contents are different. I personally don't think the output I am getting is intuitive, considering the options I have checked to "ignore date" and "by contents". I would expect the screen to show all the content-identical files to display as == and Picture 079 to be highlighted (as well as the orphan file on the right).
I've taken the time to write this post as I am literally a first time user, and I love the program, but the results I got were simply illogical. Though I understand your rationale, I doubt most new users would.
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Welcome to the Total Commander forum! You do not seem to to realize that you are writing about your problems with or feature wishes for Double Commander in a forum and thread that is all about Total Commander. Double bonus points for necroing an almost seven years old thread while doing so...deelaw wrote:[...]
Oh ffs.elgonzo wrote:Welcome to the Total Commander forum! You do not seem to to realize that you are writing about your problems with or feature wishes for Double Commander in a forum and thread that is all about Total Commander. Double bonus points for necroing an almost seven years old thread while doing so...deelaw wrote:[...]
Sorry.
But how do they have literally the exact same feature with the same behavior?
Anyhoo I guess I'll check out TC so I can whine about the right program.