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<H2 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">File
Versioning</FONT></FONT></H2>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">When
you need to preserve files that have been deleted or overwritten it's
often sufficient to select "Recycle Bin" in synchronization
settings. However this is only available on local drives and offers
little control on how to store and how long to keep the files.
FreeFileSync therefore has an additional option, "Versioning".</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>1.
Keep all versions of old files</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In
synchronization settings set both deletion handling and naming
convention to "<B>Versioning</B>". FreeFileSync will move
deleted files into the provided folder and add a time stamp to each
file name. The structure of the synchronized folders is preserved so
that old versions of a file can be conveniently accessed via a file
browser.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example
</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">(A
file "Folder\File.txt" was updated three times and old
versions were moved to folder "C:\Revisions")</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Revisions\Folder\File.txt
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12
111111</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\Folder\File.txt
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12
122222</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\Folder\File.txt
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12 133333</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.txt</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>2.
Save only most recent version</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Set
deletion handling to "Versioning" and naming convention to
"<B>Replace</B>". Deleted files will be moved to the
specified folder without any decoration and will replace already
existing older versions.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>3.
Save versions at certain intervals</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">With
naming convention "</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Replace</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">"
it's possible to refine the granularity of versions to keep by adding
<A HREF="Macros.html">macros</A> to the versioning folder path. For
example you can save deleted files on a per sync session basis by
adding the </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>%timestamp%</B></FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">macro:</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example
</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">(Using
the dynamically generated folder name "C:\Revisions\</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">%timestamp%</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">")</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Revisions\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12
111111</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">\Folder\File.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12
122222</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">\Folder\File.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12
133333</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">\Folder\File.txt</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">This
allows for a simple manual undo by moving the deleted files from the
last synchronization session back to their original folders. Other
macros like </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>%date%</B></FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">or </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>%weekday%</B></FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">can be used to reduce the granularity
to days and weeks.</FONT></P>
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