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- Short: Synchronise two folders automagically!
- Author: Chris S Handley (cshandley-REMOVETHIS@ANDTHIS_iee.org)
- Uploader: Chris S Handley (cshandley-REMOVETHIS@ANDTHIS_iee.org)
- Version: v1.02a
- Type: util/dir
-
- The purpose of FolderSync is to allow one set of files to be shared by two
- separate people (computers), and occasionally update BOTH people's set of files
- with the changes that the other has done.
-
-
- Neither person has priority, because FolderSync just 'mirrors' what one person
- has done on to the other's files, as if both were working on just a single set
- of files.
-
- It does NOT run in the background, but is run by the user when needed.
- Synchronisation is done at the level of whole files, rather than somehow
- updating a part of a file (as might happen with Address Book sync s/w). It can
- sync between an Amiga disk & a FAT (Windows) disk quite happily.
-
-
- I wrote FolderSync to allow me to carry 10,000 of my Amiga's files (500Mb)
- around with me on my Psion 7 (a 'minature laptop'), without having to worry
- about remembering what changes I had done on either my Psion or my Amiga, and
- without having to synchronise every time I switched between Amiga or Psion.
-
- It can also be made to backup the changes in one folder to another, which I use
- to keep an up-to-date backup of my Workench partition (in case I do something
- silly, like formatting it).
-
-
- Having spent so much effort making FolderSync very fast & reliable, I though I
- ought to make it publically available :-)
-
- I am not aware of any other program that does anything vagely similar, and if
- there is, then I doubt it is written so well! I am quite proud of how well it
- works, given the apparent lack of support by filing systems.
-
- Note that it is a CLI (Shell) program, and should probably only be used by an
- 'expert' (someone with some experience of the technical side of computers -
- which probably covers a lot of the surviving Amiga users!).
-
-
- I have a fairly seriously updated FolderSync, but this will not be made
- available until I have done a few other things. There is also less motivation
- since no-one seems to be using FolderSync...
-
-
- History
- +++++++
- v1.02a (30.07.2002)
- - Added anti-spam stuff to email address :(
-
- v1.02 (11.04.2002)
- - First Aminet release.
- - Minor tweak to the error handling system.
- - Forgot verbose report of dir creation.
- - Removed theoretical problem of possible hidden mirror duplicate filename when
- reducing a filename length.
- - Added reporting creation of dir that already exists but was hidden.
- - Added version (detection) to lastsync file.
- - Corrected FolderSync's executable version year date!
- - Added tweaking of name case, attributes & comments.
- - Added automatic detection of filesystem support for comments & protection
- bits, thus all protection bits are now supported.
-
- v1.01 (19.03.2002)
- - Minor corrections to the documentation.
- - Removed minor bug where copied FAT95's timestamp file comment.
- - Removed a bug which potentially could trash memory (but didn't seem to).
- - Replaced slow AmigaE memory & E-string functions with my own super fast ones,
- resulting in a speed up of about 70 times!
-
- v1.00 (19.02.2002)
- - First release.
-
- v0.00 (02.11.2001)
- - I first started seriously looking at programming it.
-