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    I have tens-of-thousands of files (hundreds of GB) locally and in a remote (LAN) drive that I have kept synchronized with other tools. I'm trying to move to Synctoy to keep it synced instead.  When I create a folder pair for the two locations and hit preview, it says it's going to copy everything from source to destination... "saved 0 bytes".  I understand that it wants to create the metadata etc. for managing the pair, but is there a way to avoid an initial massive copy/overwrite to establish it?  Thanks.
    Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:40 PM

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    Are these drives all NTFS? We have seen issues when the drives are FAT but if the drives are NTFS - while an initial sync of several GB will still take time to build metadata it will not actually copy these files across as long as the file metadata is identical.

     

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    Deepa

     

    Wednesday, November 5, 2008 1:38 AM
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    Deepa, one drive is NTFS (Vista 64) and the other is a network-mounted NAS device running some embedded OS and Filesystem (XFS perhaps?).  Are you saying the GUI is reporting a large copy will take place, but that it actually won't copy every file?  Or will a binary comparison of every file happen?  In case anyone is wondering why I don't just nail it and re-do it all is because the link between the two is slow.  Thanks.
    Wednesday, November 5, 2008 1:04 PM