I'm still in the process of product evaluation and had quite some good experience so far. (Though, far from trying all features or even understanding of all what's possible with BC.)
I did a (rather quick) forum search but couldn't find a topic covering the following scenario which I have:
I have two file trees, one on the local hard drive, the other on a network share. Initially both trees are identical, same folder names, same file names. File content is confirmed by two indipendent checks (one by SHA1 checksums; another by binary comparison with BC; no errors where detected, folder and file names of nested folders/files are identical in the beginning). Long story, sorry...
This is what I'd like to do/achieve and I'm not sure if BC can assist me herewith.
At the beginning I have this (the real file and folder names are of course different):
Left side (hard drive), e.g.
FolderA
As in the beginning the file trees is totally identical, I have on the right side (network share) the very same folder names and files.
Now I do some fancy folder renaming as the only change on the network share side. BC is not particularly required for this folder name renaming.
The rights side (network share) then looks like this:
FolderA
Finally, my question for BC: is it somehow possible to sync only the folder renaming from the one to the other side?
This might be a special use case... Could BC detect that files are the same (for me it would be OK to select that files are identical when their names and file sizes are (the data volume is beyond a terrybyte, so full binary comparison would be quite lengthy, and I know already that the files are all identical) AND align the files AND allow to sync only the folder names from one side to the other (preserving folder time stamps, optionally)?
At present when I try a comparison or folder sync of both base folders which contain as in the example the folders FolderA, FolderB, ... (with a lot more subfolders) there is no alignment regarding the files. I guess to flatten the folder tree structure doesn't help me here, as the sync is about the folders, not the files.
Any hidden or not so obvious options already present in BC here? Or is my use case too special?
I did a (rather quick) forum search but couldn't find a topic covering the following scenario which I have:
I have two file trees, one on the local hard drive, the other on a network share. Initially both trees are identical, same folder names, same file names. File content is confirmed by two indipendent checks (one by SHA1 checksums; another by binary comparison with BC; no errors where detected, folder and file names of nested folders/files are identical in the beginning). Long story, sorry...
This is what I'd like to do/achieve and I'm not sure if BC can assist me herewith.
At the beginning I have this (the real file and folder names are of course different):
Left side (hard drive), e.g.
FolderA
Folder1
File1.mkv
File2.txt
Folder2
File3.mkv
File4.txt
...
...
FolderBFolder3
File5.yyy
...
...
...
...As in the beginning the file trees is totally identical, I have on the right side (network share) the very same folder names and files.
Now I do some fancy folder renaming as the only change on the network share side. BC is not particularly required for this folder name renaming.
The rights side (network share) then looks like this:
FolderA
NewNameForFolder1
File1.mkv
File2.txt
NewNameForFolder2
File3.mkv
File4.txt
...
...
...
FolderBNewNameForFolder3
File5.yyy
...
...
...
...Finally, my question for BC: is it somehow possible to sync only the folder renaming from the one to the other side?
This might be a special use case... Could BC detect that files are the same (for me it would be OK to select that files are identical when their names and file sizes are (the data volume is beyond a terrybyte, so full binary comparison would be quite lengthy, and I know already that the files are all identical) AND align the files AND allow to sync only the folder names from one side to the other (preserving folder time stamps, optionally)?
At present when I try a comparison or folder sync of both base folders which contain as in the example the folders FolderA, FolderB, ... (with a lot more subfolders) there is no alignment regarding the files. I guess to flatten the folder tree structure doesn't help me here, as the sync is about the folders, not the files.
Any hidden or not so obvious options already present in BC here? Or is my use case too special?
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