About 200 files don't sync - suggestions?

[Guest]

Hi all... new SyncToy user and *fully*prepared to be a fanboy since it does
exactly what I want... except...

While setting up a desktop-to-laptop sync (both machines running XP, all
patches/updates applied) and copying over 10 GB of data, I found a very small
number of files (200 out of 42,000) wouldn't sync.

Some of these make sense to me - resource .FRK files that were copied over
for Macintosh files, for example. But there are a number of Quark Xpress
files that won't copy and that doesn't make sense. The error in the log is
access denied, I believe, although all subfolders are set for sharing and no
files are set to read-only.

Any ideas on how to begin troubleshooting? I'm trying to avoid manually
ferreting out the 200 files because they're scattered throughout the folder
hierarchy.

Thanks!

 

[Rick Roubos]

read-only or have odd characters (~) in the title?

 

[Guest]

Had exactly the same problem, discovered an interesting clue... I tried to
sync a bunch of jpg photos between a desktop & laptop, both running XP.
Several of the files didn't sync - approx. 10 of 185. Turns out, I had
previously opened those 10 in "Windows picture & fax viewer", and selected
"rotate right" from there, which of course re-writes the file to the hard
drive. Checked for odd characters in the title, and also the read-only
attribute. Negative on both counts.

Any ideas anyone??