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Error - insufficient memory and DST

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Hi,
I've been happily using synctoy 2.0 for a few months, and then our clocks fell back an hour over the weekend. At my next synch it wanted to copy 18k files from the USB drive to my hard drive since they were now "an hour newer". I checked here and this seems to be an issue that needs addressing in a new version.
I thought having to resynch everything twice a year isn't so bad, and started in. I preview, then hit run, and the program will copy over a few thousand files before popping up an error box:
"Exception during run: insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program."
I have to bring up task manager to shut down synctoy, start over, get another 3 thousand files synched or so, and then the same error box (I've seen it 4 times now).
Plus, synctoy has turned incredibly slow now. Before this mess, speeds were acceptable, but now something's changed.
(I'm running Vista home premium, SP1 btw, and I was also running Internet Explorer (to read these boards) the last few times it crashed. I also have some very long file names (lots of nested directories), and I'm wondering if that's part of the problem ... though again, it worked fine for months with this data, and has only been broken since the weekend).
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 3:10 PM
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Hi again
You are right, SyncToy v2.0 shows different modification timestamps in its preview. It is in our plans to correct this problem for the next release of the product.
Maria del Mar Alvarez Rohena - MSFT
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:02 PM
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Ok, think I've got it. Turns out I did have the beta version of 2.0, so I upgraded. One problem was all the warnings about how everything had to be in synch before upgrading (which the errors were preventing me from doing). So I deleted my backup drives, uninstalled synctoy, installed new version, copied everything over again through Windows Explorer, and then created a new pair and ran preview for the first time.
Surprise, surprise, it now saw a 6 hour difference in the time stamp and wanted to overwrite all 20k files again (or at least their time stamp). Since that was what kept causing the crashes before I backed out, deleted the backup drives again, and synced a full drive with an empty one. Synctoy moved everything over, and it seems to be happy for now.
The strange thing was that Synctoy indicated a 6 hour difference in the time stamps, but when I went to windows explorer and looked at the files there, the times matched up. Not sure why they differed, but for now at least I'm able to use synctoy again, and I don't think I lost any data.
-Vaz
Thursday, November 6, 2008 2:58 PM -
Thanks for letting us know what happened. We will investigate why SyncToy shows a different time stamp from Windows Explorer. Under what version of Windows did you experience this?
Maria del Mar Alvarez Rohena - MSFT
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:16 AM -
Hi again
You are right, SyncToy v2.0 shows different modification timestamps in its preview. It is in our plans to correct this problem for the next release of the product.
Maria del Mar Alvarez Rohena - MSFT
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:02 PM