In support of georgeb, I have similar issues.
I arrange files I want to save in directories.
It could be all the vacation pics and videos from last trip in a directory "2024-03-19 Passo Tonale", it could be downloaded TV series.
In order not to loose files, (disk crash, occasional delete, me fooling up, fire, theft) I have an online and 2 mostly offline disk copies of "important" files.
(Online means the files is on my Open Media Vault file-store, not in the cloud)
Now and then I make minor structural changes on the online copy, and often add new files.
Those changes (Rename a directory, split files from a directory to two directories, rename files (pictures to yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm format) ALWAYS "bites" me when synchronizing to the backup drives.
I typically use "synchronize dir" to detect what needs updating, but open another copy of TC to do the updates. (I need more control, focus on one directory at a time)
In that (Synchronize dirs) context, I'd like a hint, (that these files have same size and date) but have different name or reside in different directorys, before copying which inevitably leads to duplicates that then must be pruned later.
Must admit that I did not understand the example by Christian. Date and/or size would be different unless I misunderstood the example.
Secondly it's an example with one or a few files, in my use-case I'm juggling thousands of files, and could really use some TC support![:-)]( "Smile")
PS. Since discovering the Multi rename undo i have used it a few times and saved me a ton of work. Thank you.
Before discovering it, I made some batch scripts to do the undo by reading the log file. Think it consumed most of my time off for a week. :-S
I arrange files I want to save in directories.
It could be all the vacation pics and videos from last trip in a directory "2024-03-19 Passo Tonale", it could be downloaded TV series.
In order not to loose files, (disk crash, occasional delete, me fooling up, fire, theft) I have an online and 2 mostly offline disk copies of "important" files.
(Online means the files is on my Open Media Vault file-store, not in the cloud)
Now and then I make minor structural changes on the online copy, and often add new files.
Those changes (Rename a directory, split files from a directory to two directories, rename files (pictures to yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm format) ALWAYS "bites" me when synchronizing to the backup drives.
I typically use "synchronize dir" to detect what needs updating, but open another copy of TC to do the updates. (I need more control, focus on one directory at a time)
In that (Synchronize dirs) context, I'd like a hint, (that these files have same size and date) but have different name or reside in different directorys, before copying which inevitably leads to duplicates that then must be pruned later.
Must admit that I did not understand the example by Christian. Date and/or size would be different unless I misunderstood the example.
Secondly it's an example with one or a few files, in my use-case I'm juggling thousands of files, and could really use some TC support
PS. Since discovering the Multi rename undo i have used it a few times and saved me a ton of work. Thank you.
Before discovering it, I made some batch scripts to do the undo by reading the log file. Think it consumed most of my time off for a week. :-S
Statistics: Posted by HWAHKBERG — 2024-06-26, 21:37 UTC