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authorDaniel Wilhelm <daniel@wili.li>2014-04-18 17:07:15 +0200
committerDaniel Wilhelm <daniel@wili.li>2014-04-18 17:07:15 +0200
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-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/FreeFileSync.hhp1
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/Table of Contents.hhc4
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/html/Links.html6
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/html/advanced/Batch Scripting.html91
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/html/advanced/CmpSettings.pngbin0 -> 17093 bytes
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RealtimeSync.html19
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RunAsService.html23
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/html/advanced/ShadowCopy.html17
-rw-r--r--BUILD/Help/html/advanced/SymbolicLinks.html81
9 files changed, 193 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/FreeFileSync.hhp b/BUILD/Help/FreeFileSync.hhp
index 96e57799..02e45e53 100644
--- a/BUILD/Help/FreeFileSync.hhp
+++ b/BUILD/Help/FreeFileSync.hhp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ html\advanced\EnvironmentVariables.html
html\advanced\RealtimeSync.html
html\advanced\ShadowCopy.html
html\advanced\RunAsService.html
+html\advanced\Batch Scripting.html
[INFOTYPES]
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/Table of Contents.hhc b/BUILD/Help/Table of Contents.hhc
index 9c8c7330..e57b8399 100644
--- a/BUILD/Help/Table of Contents.hhc
+++ b/BUILD/Help/Table of Contents.hhc
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
</OBJECT>
<UL>
<LI> <OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
+ <param name="Name" value="Batch Scripting">
+ <param name="Local" value="html\advanced\Batch Scripting.html">
+ </OBJECT>
+ <LI> <OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="Compare by filesize">
<param name="Local" value="html\advanced\CompareFileSize.html">
</OBJECT>
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/html/Links.html b/BUILD/Help/html/Links.html
index 3986f2a2..f35a3641 100644
--- a/BUILD/Help/html/Links.html
+++ b/BUILD/Help/html/Links.html
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<TITLE></TITLE>
- <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)">
+ <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Win32)">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20091206;16574000">
- <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100323;22205400">
+ <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100402;19064500">
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 2cm }
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="de-DE" DIR="LTR">
<H3 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Links</FONT></H3>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Homepage:</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><A HREF="http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN LANG="zxx"><U>http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net</U></SPAN></FONT></FONT></A></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">FreeFileSync
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/Batch Scripting.html b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/Batch Scripting.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3629edf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/Batch Scripting.html
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+ <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
+ <TITLE></TITLE>
+ <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Win32)">
+ <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20091206;16574000">
+ <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100418;14135000">
+ <META NAME="Info 1" CONTENT="">
+ <META NAME="Info 2" CONTENT="">
+ <META NAME="Info 3" CONTENT="">
+ <META NAME="Info 4" CONTENT="">
+ <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
+ <!--
+ @page { margin: 2cm }
+ P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }
+ H3 { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }
+ H3.western { font-family: "Arial", sans-serif }
+ H3.cjk { font-family: "MS Mincho" }
+ A:link { so-language: zxx }
+ -->
+ </STYLE>
+</HEAD>
+<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
+<H3 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Batch Scripting
+<SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">(Windows)</SPAN></FONT></H3>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In
+order to facilitate using FreeFileSync and RealtimeSync in advanced
+synchronization scenarios, creating batch files is a good way to
+provide additional functionality. The following section will give
+some general hints for custom *.cmd and *.bat files.</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B>
+(A simple locking facility when sync'ing with multiple computers in
+parallel)</FONT></P>
+<UL>
+ <P><SPAN ID="Rahmen5" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
+ <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">:tryAgain<BR>if not exist
+ \\share\folder\lock (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::create
+ the lock<BR></B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">echo
+ This is a lock file &gt; \\share\folder\lock<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::execute
+ the synchronization batch job synchronously<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Program
+ Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe&quot;
+ &quot;C:\MySyncJob.ffs_batch&quot;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;del
+ \\share\folder\lock<BR>) else (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::wait
+ 5 seconds then try starting sync again:<BR></B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">choice
+ /C:AB /T:5 /D:A &gt; NUL<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;goto tryAgain<BR>)</FONT></P>
+ </SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
+ </P>
+</UL>
+<OL>
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">When
+ starting a batch file from RealtimeSync be sure to make synchronous
+ calls to FreeFileSync only. This will prevent RealtimeSync from
+ detecting changes while synchronization is still in progress.</FONT></P>
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">During
+ execution of a Batch file a black console window is shown. You can
+ hide this window by using the Visual Basic script &quot;Invisible.vbs&quot;
+ located in the FreeFileSync installation directory.</FONT></P>
+ <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Usage:</B></FONT></P>
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen7" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
+ <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">wscript C:\Program
+ files\FreeFileSync\Invisible.vbs C:\MyBatchFile.cmd</FONT></P>
+ </SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;</FONT>
+ </P>
+</OL>
+<OL START=3>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">FreeFileSync
+ returns with an Errorlevel below zero if unresolved problems remain:</FONT></P>
+ <P><SPAN ID="Rahmen1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
+ <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Program
+ Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe&quot;
+ &quot;H:\Silent_Config.ffs_batch&quot;<BR>if not errorlevel 0
+ (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::if
+ something went wrong, add special treatment here<BR></B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp;echo
+ Errors occurred during synchronization...</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B><BR></B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&nbsp;&nbsp;pause<BR>)</FONT></P>
+ </SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
+ </P>
+</OL>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+</BODY>
+</HTML> \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/CmpSettings.png b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/CmpSettings.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..618f4057
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/CmpSettings.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RealtimeSync.html b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RealtimeSync.html
index 156409ba..5aabe112 100644
--- a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RealtimeSync.html
+++ b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RealtimeSync.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20091206;16574000">
- <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100125;20445600">
+ <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100428;21351600">
<META NAME="Info 1" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 2" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 3" CONTENT="">
@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ to begin monitoring.</FONT></P>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Starting the tool can be automated
by passing a RealtimeSync configuration file (<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_real</FONT>)
OR a FreeFileSync Batch file (<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_batch</FONT>)
- as first command-line argument. This allows for integration with
- your operating system's autostart facility:</FONT></P>
+ as first command-line argument. Latter is implicitly converted to
+ a *.ffs_real file with default settings. This allows for
+ integration with your operating system's autostart facility:</FONT></P>
</UL>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
@@ -131,15 +132,15 @@ batch file similar to this one:</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
<FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::first
check whether USB-stick contains a sync-configuration at all</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><BR>@if
- exist &quot;H:\Silent_Config.ffs_batch&quot; (<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::configuration
- found, now execute the synchronization batch job</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><BR>&quot;C:\Program
+ exist &quot;H:\Silent_Config.ffs_batch&quot; (<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::configuration
+ found, now execute the synchronization batch job</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Program
Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe&quot;
- &quot;H:\Silent_Config.ffs_batch&quot;<BR>@if not errorlevel 0
- (<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::if
+ &quot;H:\Silent_Config.ffs_batch&quot;<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">@if
+ not errorlevel 0 (<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::if
something went wrong, start FreeFileSync in GUI
- mode</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><BR></FONT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Program
+ mode</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Program
Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe&quot;
- &quot;H:\GUI_Config.ffs_gui&quot;<BR>)<BR>)</FONT></P>
+ &quot;H:\GUI_Config.ffs_gui&quot;<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">)<BR>)</FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
</UL>
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RunAsService.html b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RunAsService.html
index ea1e4f2c..499d0d4d 100644
--- a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RunAsService.html
+++ b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/RunAsService.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20091206;16574000">
- <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100218;105200">
+ <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100420;20042700">
<META NAME="Info 1" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 2" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 3" CONTENT="">
@@ -58,10 +58,8 @@ the new Service with RealtimeSync:</FONT></P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Open
the Registry editor (Regedit.exe) and navigate to key
&quot;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\&lt;ServiceName&gt;</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;</FONT></P>
- <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"></P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Add
a new key &quot;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">Parameters</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;.<BR><IMG SRC="bf02de4e-7b45-4353-97e8-85b55cff3ac5.jpeg" NAME="Grafik8" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=249 HEIGHT=101 BORDER=0></FONT></P>
- <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"></P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Add
a new String value named &quot;</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">Application</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;
and specify a command line that shall be executed as value.<BR><IMG SRC="RunAsService_html_m3be0f332.jpg" NAME="Grafik10" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=620 HEIGHT=58 BORDER=0></FONT></P>
@@ -72,7 +70,24 @@ the new Service with RealtimeSync:</FONT></P>
it!</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
-<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.46cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: 1px solid #000080; padding: 0.05cm; background: #ccccff">
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
+ <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Attention:</B><BR>When running
+ RealtimeSync as a service the application has no means to interact
+ with the user. Therefore any popup dialog will stop the process
+ flow! Consequently consider the following rules when setting up a
+ FreeFileSync batch job:</FONT></P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Enable
+ checkbox &quot;<I>Silent mode</I>&quot; to prevent showing a status
+ dialog at the end of the process.</FONT></P>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Set
+ &quot;<I>Error handling</I>&quot; to either &quot;<I>Exit
+ instantly</I>&quot; or &quot;<I>Ignore errors</I>&quot;.</FONT></P>
+ </UL>
+</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR>
+</P>
+<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">The new
service can now be started via commandline or Windows Service
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/ShadowCopy.html b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/ShadowCopy.html
index 09b64e6a..d726ad76 100644
--- a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/ShadowCopy.html
+++ b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/ShadowCopy.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20091206;16574000">
- <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100323;22190200">
+ <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100413;18262600">
<META NAME="Info 1" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 2" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 3" CONTENT="">
@@ -33,9 +33,18 @@ Copy of the source drive. To enable this feature go to </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma
<UL>
<P><SPAN ID="Rahmen2" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: 1px solid #000080; padding: 0.05cm; background: #ccccff">
<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
- <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note:</B><BR>This functionality
- is applied to locked files only. Regular files will not use Volume
- Shadow Copy Service when being synchronized.</FONT></P>
+ <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note:</B></FONT></P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">This
+ functionality is applied to locked files only. Regular files will
+ not use Volume Shadow Copy Service when being synchronized.</FONT></P>
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"></P>
+ </UL>
+ <UL>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Creating
+ Volume Snapshots using VSS requires the application to be started
+ with Administrator rights.</SPAN></FONT></P>
+ </UL>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
</UL>
diff --git a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/SymbolicLinks.html b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/SymbolicLinks.html
index b85c6bbd..fc385f8f 100644
--- a/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/SymbolicLinks.html
+++ b/BUILD/Help/html/advanced/SymbolicLinks.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20091206;16574000">
- <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20091213;19145800">
+ <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20100420;21220800">
<META NAME="Info 1" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 2" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Info 3" CONTENT="">
@@ -28,46 +28,67 @@ Linux)</SPAN></FONT></H3>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">FreeFileSync
-offers the following two advanced options contained in each
-*.ffs_gui/*.ffs_batch file to configure processing of Symbolic Links
-(also called Symlinks or Soft Links):</FONT></P>
+offers three advanced options to configure processing of Symbolic
+Links (also called Symlinks or Soft Links). They can be configured
+directly within a *.ffs_gui/ffs_batch file via a text editor. Only
+the first option is presented on GUI:</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
-<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Default
-Settings (View and edit these in the text editor of your choice):</FONT></P>
-<UL>
- <P><SPAN ID="Rahmen1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
- <UL>
- <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&lt;CopyFileSymlinks&gt;true&lt;/CopyFileSymlinks&gt;<BR>&lt;TraverseDirectorySymlinks&gt;false&lt;/TraverseDirectorySymlinks&gt;</FONT></P>
- </UL>
+<OL>
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen7" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
+ <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&lt;IncludeSymlinks&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;false&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/IncludeSymlinks&gt;<BR>&lt;TraverseDirectorySymlinks&gt;true&nbsp;&lt;/TraverseDirectorySymlinks&gt;<BR>&lt;CopyFileSymlinks&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;false&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/CopyFileSymlinks&gt;</FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
+</OL>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<UL>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Enable
+ &quot;<I>Include Symbolic Links</I>&quot; in order to process
+ Symbolic Links at all, i.e. add them to the file and directory
+ listing.<BR></FONT>&nbsp;</P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;<I>Traverse
+ Directory Links</I>&quot; specifies handling of Symbolic Links to
+ directories:<BR>If this option is enabled, they are traversed like
+ ordinary directories during comparison. When synchronizing, the
+ target of the Symbolic Link will be copied. If disabled, Symbolic
+ Links are not traversed. During synchronization, copying them
+ results in a copy of the Symbolic Link.<BR></FONT>&nbsp;</P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;<I>Copy
+ File Links</I>&quot; defines the behavior for copying Symbolic Links
+ pointing to files:<BR>If checked, the Symbolic Link itself will be
+ copied. If unchecked, the target of the Link will be copied instead.</FONT></P>
</UL>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
-<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;<I>CopyFileSymlinks</I>&quot;
-defines the behavior for copying Symbolic Links pointing to files:</FONT></P>
-<P STYLE="margin-left: 2cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If
-set to <I>true</I> it copies the Symbolik Link to its destination.<BR>If
-set to <I>false</I> the target of the link, in this case a file, is
-being copied instead.</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">On GUI
+only the first option is available for configuration, while &quot;<I>Traverse
+Directory Links</I>&quot; is implicitly enabled and </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><I>Copy
+File Links</I></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot; disabled.</FONT></P>
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</P>
-<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;<I>TraverseDirectorySymlinks</I>&quot;
-specifies handling of Symbolic Links to directories:</FONT></P>
-<P STYLE="margin-left: 2cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If
-<I>true</I>, they are being traversed like regular directories during
-comparison and are copied as if they were regular directories (i.e.
-not as Symbolic Links) during synchronization.<BR>If <I>false</I> is
-selected, these Symbolic Links are not traversed at all. During
-synchronization copying them results in a direct copy of the Symbolic
-Link, not the target directory.</FONT></P>
-<P STYLE="margin-left: 2cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen2" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: 1px solid #000080; padding: 0.05cm; background: #ccccff">
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG SRC="CmpSettings.png" NAME="Grafik1" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=292 HEIGHT=225 BORDER=0></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
+</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.46cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: 1px solid #000080; padding: 0.05cm; background: #ccccff">
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- <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note:</B><BR>As the link's
- content is not parsed by FreeFileSync, this usually only makes sense
- when you use relative paths within your Symolic Links.</FONT></P>
+ <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note:</B></FONT></P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In
+ the Windows build the options described above always apply to
+ </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><I>&quot;Reparse Points&quot;</I></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">.
+ Reparse Points are a more general concept including for example
+ Symbolic Links, Junctions and Mount Points. The term </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><I>&quot;Symbolic
+ Link&quot; </I></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">has
+ been retained nevertheless for harmonization with Linux.</SPAN></FONT></P>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Creating
+ or copying Symbolic Links requires the application to be started
+ with Administrator rights.</FONT></P>
+ </UL>
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