[softwarelist] Re: SyncDiscs - a new version (1.20)
- From: David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 21:18:31 +0100
In general because SyncDiscs uses another program to do the file
copying, it wants to avoid looking at individual files - the higher up
the directory tree the copy command is issued the better - we want to
tell the copy program to copy whole folders, that way things go faster.
Many ideas for improvements involve breaking this requirement. Checking
file attributes after copying or setting them would.
Something you see on sync. programs is a function to set the destination
attributes to be the same as the source - in other words if you know the
files are the same, force the time stamps to be the same. This is done
as a separate operation over all files like sync. or compare.
Then again perhaps it is safer to set the attributes immediately after a
copy.
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