Hello,
What am I doing in my practice: Synchronizing a directory with older variants (which I have ZIPed) and thus keeping track of changes.
- The original directory (D1) has been ZIPed to "Z1" days ago. During my work D1 has changed its contents to D2.
- I open the directory D2 in the left pane and the old ZIPed variant Z1 in the right.
- I want to update the ZIP Z1 (right folder) to Z2, which must be the same as the contents of the left folder (D2) so I do a Synchronization between them.
Please find files:
(sending them personally)
Herein I am sending 2 files:
"Original Dir.zip" - this one has to be extracted into one folder (Name: Default) and be opened in the left pane for the "Synchronize dir" command. It has the contents of the mentioned D2 folder.
"Original ZIP.zip" - this one has NOT to be extracted, but opened as ZIP in the right pane for the "Synchronize dir" command. It has the contents of the mentioned Z1.
As a result of a "Compare" I get two strange results:
- there are 23 files in the right pane which are shown as to be copied to the left - why this?
- If I try to find these 23 files - there are no files with the "right to left" arrow, only files to be deleted from the right folder ?
When Synching I switch OFF "copying to the left folder" (as I do want the right pane to be exactly as the left). As a result there are 22/23 files in the right folder, which are stated as to be deleted ?
I do a second Synch and some of these left over files are being deleted. I do another Sync ... and so on until all left over files in the right pane are deleted.
Now I have the Right ZIP (Z2) exactly the same as the Left folder (D2).
I hope I have explained the problem
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