Synchronize dirs (overwrite older files)

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bandicoot
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Synchronize dirs (overwrite older files)

Post by *bandicoot »

Hello,
There is a feature I am missing in TC (I use v. 6.01), and I was wondering if it has been introduced in the later releases.

When doing directory synchronization, the non-identical "duplicates" files are automatically selected as "not equal". I would like to be able to synchronize them, so that the files with the newest date would overwrite their matches with the older date, i.e. in pseudocode:

if (leftfile.date > rightfile.date)
{ overwrite rightfile with leftfile }
else
{ overwrite leftfile with rightfile }

Of course I can do it manually, by selecting all files, copy to left, overwrite all older and then repeating the same action the other way around, but it is taking more time than I wish to spend on such a routine. If this feature has been introduced, or can be scripted, I would like to hear about it.

Thank you in advance.
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Post by *MVV »

Just uncheck checkbox 'ignore date'. Don't know if it exists in TC 6.01 since I'm using 8.01 (and haven't used 6.x for years). If you don't want to use latest version you may try 7.56a or at least 7.04a, I believe there were a lot of useful features.
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