On 2025-10-15 01:31:11 +0200 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Patrick Cardona wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>> Testing a simple case with StepSync, I found the following issue:
>
> What version are you using? release? current svn?
> It scares me, I trust StepSync quite a bit nowadays and I synchronize half a
> terabyte of precious data with ease.
>
> Current SVN head is close to release actually, so if there is a bug, high
> alert. I consider it stable.
Info Panel says: 0.1 release.
How it was fetched:
svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/gap/trunk/system-apps/StepSync
>
>> How to reproduce:
>
>
>> 3) Now, edit and modify the content of ficC.txt
>> Enable option '[x] Update Source' in StepSync
>> Sync again:
>> The file ficC.txt should be updated in SRC hierarchy, but:
>
> do you edit the content in source or target?
ficC.txt is modified on target because I want to test the option: 'Update
source' enabled.
>
>
>> patrick@pi400:~/SOURCES $ tree SRC
>> SRC
>> └── A
>> ├── B
>> │ ├── C
>> │ └── ficB.txt
>> └── ficA.txt
>
>> It has been deleted: so not the action expected.
>
> No, this is extremely unexpected - given the sensitivity, StepSync is
> programmed to delete *only* missing things. So essentially if you do not flag
> "Delete items" it shouldn't delete anything.
I confirm "Delete items" option is disabled.
> Update Source instead means to mirror things from target to source, otherwise
> actions are performed exclusively on target.
>
> Did you inspect the output in the log? what does it say about ficC.txt?
Therie is the complet log of "Analyze" action performed before "Synchronize":
patrick@pi400:~/SOURCES $ openapp StepSync
2025-10-15 13:03:07.518 StepSync[10640:10753] autorelease called without pool
for object (0x55aab243f0) of class NSUserDefaults in thread <NSThread:
0x55ab1706f0>{name = (null), num = 10753}
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] target missing dirs: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] source missing dirs: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] target missing: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] source missing: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] target modified:
("A/B/C/ficC.txt")
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] source modified: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] size differing files with same
date: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.531 StepSync[10640:10753] date differing files with same
size: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.537 StepSync[10640:10753] source free 86125.764608 MBytes,
target free 86125.764608 MBytes
Hope it can be useful.
Patrick
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