never syncs if i edit file, then 'touch' datestamp before LM syncs

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  i have a group of files in a directory that i sometimes need to update... since i need to go thru all of them & may do it over a period of days or even weeks, when I'm done i often use a win32 console version of the unix touch command to update the date/time stamp on an edited file to some time in the future.  This makes it easy to see which ones I still need to update -- the ones that don't have the same time stamp.
  
  so anyway, i edited one file & it synced to another PC (i don't sync these to the desktop).  Then i touched it & set it to June 1, 2009 12:01:00am.  The update to the timestamp never synced.  Should it?  isn't that metadata, & i've read LM will always sync metadata on mp3 files, for instance?  Very annoying, but as long as the contents always get synced when they differ... i verified a checksum with MS' own fciv.exe and the files are the same.  In the end that's what matters.
  
  so here's where it gets weird:  i edited another file & touched it BEFORE it ever synced.  So it never did -- we're now @ 3 days later, just noticed it when i got on the other PC.  I thought LM synced based on a hash of files to determine if they're identical, not simply a timestamp?  If i'm correct in that it hashes, it would seem to be a bug.  I could see how it doesn't even run a hash unless the timestamps are different, but in this case it is -- just in the future, not the present or past.
  
  this should be easy enough to duplicate... i will upload logs later, no time right now.
  
  

  • Changed type Stephen BootsMVP, Moderator Sunday, May 31, 2009 11:56 PM

  Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:40 PM