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diff --git a/BUILD/Readme.txt b/BUILD/Readme.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0f2ae840..00000000 --- a/BUILD/Readme.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,197 +0,0 @@ -FreeFileSync v3.1 ------------------ - ---------- -| Usage | ---------- - -1. Choose left and right directories and "Compare" them. -2. Select synchronization settings and press "Synchronize..." to begin synchronization. - - ----------------- -| Key Features | ----------------- - -1. Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them. -2. No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized. -3. Unicode support. -4. Network support. -5. Synchronization database for automated setting of sync-directions and conflict detection -6. Support for multiple folder pairs with distinct configuration -7. Full support for Windows/Linux Symbolic Links and Windows Junction Points. -8. Lean & easily accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets of data. -9. Algorithms coded in C++ completely. -10. Subfolders are also synchronized, including empty folders. -12. Progress indicators are updated only every 100ms for optimal performance! -12. Create Batch Jobs for automated synchronization with or without GUI. -13. Focus on usability: - - Only necessary functionality on UI: no overloaded menus or icon jungle. - - Select folders via drag & drop. - - Last configuration and screen settings are saved automatically. - - Maintain and load different configurations by drag&drop, load-button or during startup. - - Double-click to show file in explorer. (Windows only) - - Copy & paste support to export file-lists. - - Delete superfluous/temporary files directly on main grid. - - Right-click context menu. - - Status information and error reporting - - Sort file-lists by name, size or date. - - Display statistical data: total filesizes, amount of bytes that will be transfered with the current settings. -14. Support for filesizes larger than 4 GB. -15. Option to move files to Recycle Bin instead of deleting/overwriting them. -16. Automatically ignore directories "\RECYCLER" and "\System Volume Information" with default Filter. (Windows only) -17. Localized versions for many languages are available. -18. Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages with large sync-operations. -19. Based on wxWidgets framework => Portable to many operating systems. -20. Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (without re-compare!). -21. Include/exclude specific files from synchronization manually. -22. Create sync jobs via GUI to synchronize automatically (can be scheduled or executed directly). -23. Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32 volumes correctly. -24. Portable version (.zip) available. -25. No Windows registry entries for portable version. -26. Support for \\?\ path prefix for unrestricted path length. (Windows only) -27. Check for updates from within FreeFileSync automatically. -28. Copy locked files using Windows Volume Shadow Copy. (Windows only) -29. Load file icons asynchronously for maximum display performance. -30. Create regular backups with macros %time%, %date% within directory names -31. Copy file and folder create/access/modification times when synchronizing - - - -------------------- -| Advanced topics | -------------------- - -1.) Synchronize in Batch Mode and send error notification via email: - -- Create a FreeFileSync batch file using "silent mode". -- Set error handling to "Exit with Returncode < 0" or "ignore errors" to avoid having a popup stop the program flow. - In case errors occur FreeFileSync will abort with a returncode < 0 which can be checked via the ERRORLEVEL command. -- Create a *.cmd or *.bat file and specify the location of FreeFileSync.exe and pass the name of the FreeFileSync batch file as first argument; e.g.: - - C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe C:\SyncJob.ffs_batch - IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 0 echo An error occurred! && pause - -- Instead of displaying "An error occurred!" you can specify any other command like sending an email notification (using a third party tool). - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -2.) Schedule Batch Job in Windows Task Planner - -- Create a FreeFileSync batch file. (E.g. C:\SyncJob.ffs_batch) -- Create a new task in Windows Task planner for FreeFileSync.exe. -- Modify the task and adapt the execute-command specifying the path to the batch file; e.g.: - - C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe C:\SyncJob.ffs_batch - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -3.) Drag & drop support - -FreeFileSync has a big focus on usability. Therefore drag & drop is supported in various situations: - -You can: - drag & drop any directory onto the main window to set the directory for comparison - - drag & drop any file onto the main window to set the directory for comparison - - drag & drop *.ffs_gui files onto the main window to load the configuration contained - - drag & drop *.ffs_batch files onto the main window to display and edit the batch configuration - - drag & drop *.ffs_batch files onto the batch dialog to display and edit the batch configuration - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -4.) Exclude all subfolders from synchronization - -If you want to synchronize all files from the base synchronization directories only, simply set up a filter like this: - - Include: * - Exclude: *\ - -This will exclude all objects within the two directories that end with a "\" character, which is interpreted as the end of a directory name, - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -5.) Synchronize with FTP - -FreeFileSync does not support FTP directly. But the FTP functionality can be easily activated by mapping the FTP webspace to a drive letter: - -Example: Use the free utility NetDrive (http://www.netdrive.net/) -- Add a "New Site" and specify site name, site URL, drive letter, account and password. -- Use the newly created drive as if it were a regular hard disk. -- Note: Most FTP drives set a file's timestamp to current time when synchronizing. As a workaround you can try a "compare by filesize", see below. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -6.) Start external application on double-click - -FreeFileSync's default is to show files in the operating system's standard file browser on each double-click e.g. by invoking "explorer /select, %name" on Windows. -If some other application shall be started instead, just navigate to "Menu -> Advanced -> Global settings: External Applications" and replace the command string: - -Examples: - Start associated application: cmd /c start "" "%name" - - Start visual difference tool: C:\Program Files\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe "%name" "%nameCo" -(Don't forget to use quotation marks if file names contain spaces!) - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -7. Synchronize USB sticks with variable drive letter - -USB sticks often have different volume names assigned to them when plugged into two distinct computers. In order to handle this flexibility FreeFileSync is able to -process directory names relative to the current working directory. Thus the following workflow is possible: - - - Replace the absolute USB directory name (variable) in your configuration by a relative one: E.g. "E:\SyncDir" -> "\SyncDir" - - Save and copy synchronization settings to the USB stick: "E:\settings.ffs_gui" - - Start FreeFileSync by double-clicking on "E:\settings.ffs_gui" - -=> Working directory automatically is set to "E:\" by the operating system so that "\SyncDir" is interpreted as "E:\SyncDir". Now start synchronization as usual. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8. Start RealtimeSync via commandline - -RealtimeSync can be used to load a configuration file and start processing immediately without additional user intervention. Just pass the name of a configuration file as -first commandline argument. - -Example: C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\RealtimeSync.exe MyConfig.ffs_real - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -9. Compare by filesize - -Sometimes you might want to compare both sides by filesize only, ignoring the last modification timestamp. Here is how you can do this: Open your *.ffs_gui configuration file -and change the XML node <FileTimeTolerance> to some sufficiently large value. Now changed files will be detected as a conflict (same date, different filesize) and a default -synchronization direction for conflics can be used. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -10. Create regular backups with time-stamped directory names - -You can use macros %time%, %date% within the directory names you want to synchronize: Assuming you have a directory "C:\Source" which you want to backup each day into a time-stamped target -directory like "C:\Target_2009-10-08", all that needs to be done is setting up base directories like this: - -Source folder: "C:\Source" -Target folder: "C:\Target_%date%" - -Latter will be interactively replaced with the current date. In order to further automate this process, you can create a *.ffs_batch file with this configuration and choose -"ignore errors" to avoid the warning that target directory is not (yet) existing. - - - ---------- -| Links | ---------- - -FreeFileSync on SourceForge: -http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/ - - ------------- -| Contact | ------------- - -For feedback, suggestions or bug-reports you can write an email to: -zhnmju123 [at] gmx [dot] de - -or report directly to: -http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/ - - -Have fun! --ZenJu |