Aargh! I had forgotten why I stuck w/BC2 and never upgraded to BC3: the lack of the "Affect only visible files" functionality that is lacking in BC3 (and
now BC4).
There are a lot of use cases for BC, and one of mine has been using BC
to keep whole drives in sync, whether it be laptop/desktop, work/home, primary/backup or whatever. This means very long directory/file lists, and one way to keep things organized is to go through these long lists and collapse the few directories that shouldn't be part of that particular sync operation.
I've attached a screenshot that illustrates my predicament. In this you can see two directories (abcperf & appia) at the top of the list. For a number of reasons, I don't want to sync them to the destination at this time, but with this version of BC there's no straight-forward way to do that:
- I can exclude the directories, but that's relatively permanent -- I'm going to want to sync them at some point, just not yet. (I do exclude directories that I *never* want to sync, and that's handy, but this is a different use case).
- I can select the individual directories one-by-one, but that becomes unworkable for a large number of directories.
With BC2 this is really simple: just click "Synchronize to right" and select "Affect only visible files". (I've attached that screenshot as well for comparison, with BC2 running with Wine).
Choosing "Session/Sync Base Folders" is even worse, as (yet another) attached screenshot illustrates: I want to sync a couple of dozen files, not 88,000!
I'm stumped! Is there any way to approach the clean and simple way that BC2 synced directories?
If the answer is "no", as I suspect, then I'm begging you to bring back the "Affect only visible files" flag.
FWIW, there are a lot of people who are strongly visually oriented (like me, but also graphic artists and other "creative" types) who are going to be much happier with a visual solution to the problem of syncing files (vs. filters etc. that are "invisible").
P.S. BTW, the "Sync Base Folders" command doesn't appear to honor the filters of the "parent" Directory Compare.
P.P.S. Also attaching a crash report that was generated while I was working w/BC4. IT didn't appear to affect anything -- BC4 kept running and was responsive to input.
now BC4).
There are a lot of use cases for BC, and one of mine has been using BC
to keep whole drives in sync, whether it be laptop/desktop, work/home, primary/backup or whatever. This means very long directory/file lists, and one way to keep things organized is to go through these long lists and collapse the few directories that shouldn't be part of that particular sync operation.
I've attached a screenshot that illustrates my predicament. In this you can see two directories (abcperf & appia) at the top of the list. For a number of reasons, I don't want to sync them to the destination at this time, but with this version of BC there's no straight-forward way to do that:
- I can exclude the directories, but that's relatively permanent -- I'm going to want to sync them at some point, just not yet. (I do exclude directories that I *never* want to sync, and that's handy, but this is a different use case).
- I can select the individual directories one-by-one, but that becomes unworkable for a large number of directories.
With BC2 this is really simple: just click "Synchronize to right" and select "Affect only visible files". (I've attached that screenshot as well for comparison, with BC2 running with Wine).
Choosing "Session/Sync Base Folders" is even worse, as (yet another) attached screenshot illustrates: I want to sync a couple of dozen files, not 88,000!
I'm stumped! Is there any way to approach the clean and simple way that BC2 synced directories?
If the answer is "no", as I suspect, then I'm begging you to bring back the "Affect only visible files" flag.
FWIW, there are a lot of people who are strongly visually oriented (like me, but also graphic artists and other "creative" types) who are going to be much happier with a visual solution to the problem of syncing files (vs. filters etc. that are "invisible").
P.S. BTW, the "Sync Base Folders" command doesn't appear to honor the filters of the "parent" Directory Compare.
P.P.S. Also attaching a crash report that was generated while I was working w/BC4. IT didn't appear to affect anything -- BC4 kept running and was responsive to input.
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