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authorDaniel Wilhelm <daniel@wili.li>2014-04-18 17:24:09 +0200
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+<H2 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">Expert
+settings</FONT></FONT></H2>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">FreeFileSync
+has a number of special purpose settings that can only be accessed
+directly via the global configuration file &quot;<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">GlobalSettings.xml</FONT>&quot;.
+To locate this file enter &quot;<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%appdata%\FreeFileSync</FONT>&quot;
+in the Windows Explorer address bar or go to the FreeFileSync
+installation folder if you are using the portable installation.</FONT></P>
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+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&lt;?xml
+ version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;<BR>&lt;FreeFileSync
+ XmlType=&quot;GLOBAL&quot;&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;Shared&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<B>FileTimeTolerance</B>
+ Seconds=&quot;2&quot;/&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<B>RunWithBackgroundPriority</B>
+ Enabled=&quot;false&quot;/&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<B>LockDirectoriesDuringSync</B>
+ Enabled=&quot;true&quot;/&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<B>VerifyCopiedFiles</B>
+ Enabled=&quot;false&quot;/&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<B>LastSyncsLogSizeMax</B>
+ Bytes=&quot;100000&quot;/&gt;</FONT></P>
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+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>FileTimeTolerance:</B></FONT><BR><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">By
+default file modification</FONT> <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">times
+are allowed to have a 2 second difference while still being
+considered equal. This is required by FAT/FAT32 file systems which
+store file times with a 2 second precision only.<BR>This setting
+can also be used to simulate a &quot;compare by file size&quot;,
+ignoring last modification times: If tolerance is set to some high
+value, e.g. 2.000.000.000, then changed files will be detected as a
+conflict (same date, different file size) and the
+synchronization direction for conflicts can be set accordingly.</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>RunWithBackgroundPriority:</B></FONT><BR><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">While
+synchronization is running, other applications which are accessing the same
+data locations may experience a noticeable slowdown. Enable this
+setting to lower FreeFileSync's resource consumption at the cost of a
+significantly slower synchronization speed.</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>LockDirectoriesDuringSync:</B></FONT><BR><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In
+order to avoid race conditions of multiple FreeFileSync instances
+writing to the same folder at the same time, accesses are serialized
+by lock files (&quot;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">sync.ffs_lock</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;).
+This allows to operate FreeFileSync with an arbitrary number of users
+in a network out of the box.</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>VerifyCopiedFiles:</B></FONT><BR><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If
+active FreeFileSync will binary-compare source and target files after
+copying and report verification errors. Note that this may double
+file copy times and is no guarantee that data has not already been
+corrupted prior to copying and corruption is not hidden by
+deceptively reading valid data from various buffers in the
+application and hardware stack.</FONT><BR><A HREF="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/09/19/10350645.aspx"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Does
+the CopyFile function verify that the data reached its final
+destination successfully?</FONT></A></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>LastSyncsLogSizeMax:<BR></B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
+progress logs of the most recent synchronizations (for both GUI and
+batch jobs) are collected automatically in the file &quot;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">LastSyncs.log</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;.
+The maximum size of this log file can be set here.</FONT></P>
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