SyncToy time issue?

[Guest]

Just downloaded and installed SyncToy. The sync seems to be having some
issues. I made a pair of my "My Documents" folder on my computer on the left
and my removable USB drive on the right. I synced the files, then removed the
usb drive. I then deleted a file from my computer, replaced the USB drive,
and synced. It came up with 600 files that it said needed to be overwritten
on my PC (the left files). When I look at the times, all of the ones on the
USB drive are listed as about 2 seconds later than those in the My Documents
folder. It's interesting, because the dates all match (and vary from file to
file), but the times are off by 2 seconds. In addition, instead of wanting to
delete the files on the usb drive, it wants to copy them back to the hard
drive, even though the difference is the result of deleting the files from
the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Dan

 

[Guest]

Hi Dan,

I'm one of the program managers working on SyncToy.

We've seen this (or a similar issue rather) on another forum. We're still
looking into it. In the other case, it looks like it may be related to
differences in the precision with which the modified date timestamp is stored
between NTFS and FAT volumes. We're looking at options for fixes that we can
make there before release.

Could you tell me, do you know if your source drive is formatted as an NTFS
volume? If so, it's likely to be the same issue.

--jim

 

[Guest]

Hi Jim:

Yes, the source volume is NTFS and the destination is FAT. Sounds like the
same problem.

How about the problem of the delete. I deleted the file from the "left"
folder, and when I resynced, rather than deleting the file from the "right"
folder, it replaced the file from the "right" folder to the "left" folder.
Any ideas about that problem?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Guest]

I'm one of the program managers working on SyncToy.

Jim,

Where can one post suggestions for SyncToy?

 

[Guest]

Hi there,
what do you think about dropping this Timestamp-method and change to
(MD5)-Checksums? That would be safer, more precise but - of course - much
slower (But slow an reliable is better then fast and somewhat stupid, or?)

Karsten

 

[Guest]

Hi Karsten,

You can effect your change by selecting the "check file contents" checkbox
under options.

I hope this helps...
george