SyncToy 2.0B default file action

[bb_aes]

I am using synctoy to replace the old Briefcase program. I love SyncToy, but
it seems to be missing the ability to change the default action on a file.
Once I run a preview and get a list of files that have changed (using
Synchronize) it would be nice to change the default action.

For instance, if a file was previously deleted in the left folder the
default action would be to delete it from the right. But I would expect to
be able to right click on that file in the preview mode and change the
default delete operation to copy the file back from right to left.

Or another example might be that a file was changed on the left folder and
we would like to change the default action of copying left to right to copy
from right to left to restore the original file without the changes.

Likewise, if both files were changed Briefcase would tell us that and ask
which direction we wanted to copy. It sure seems this is much more advanced
than Briefcase, so am I missing this basic function? If it hasn't been
designed in yet, will it be added? I read all the posts and found no mention
of this. Thanks.

 

[Ashish]

Sorry, this is not a feature we are considering for SyncToy. You can manually
unselect the changes that you don't want to sync over in the Preview window
and then do the change you want manually for those files.

Ashish Shah
Synctoy Development

 

[heartspeace]

Synctoy missing files

I have been using synctoy 2.0 beta and it seems that when using contribute there are routinely LESS files copied than there are existing. Using left to right, contribute, all files included, no files excluded, all subfolders included... synctoy 2.0 seems to forget to copy files. Now I am searching for a compare folder program to tell me which - but how can I trust synctoy 2.0 beta now? I was trusting it and deleted large amounts before checking - my stupidity. I wonder what files I have lost... No errors were reported. Bad Bad Bad Microsoft. After all - I checked it by comparing the number of folders, files and bytes. You think they could do the same and tell you what is missing.