Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 11:56:33 AM, you wrote: > This leads to my next question about synchronization:
> Assume desktop user Abe downloads e-mail in the morning: items a, b, and > c are downloaded and Abe, in the morning, reads all messages and deletes > items b and c from desktop. > Assume laptop user Sara downloads the e-mail in the afternoon: items a, > b, c, and d and Sara reads only item b and deletes nothing. > Assume that a, b, c, and d will remain on server for 24 hours. > At night, both the laptop and desktop synchronize. > Here are my questions: > 1. Will items b and c be deleted from the laptop or will they be added > back to the desktop? With Directory Toolkit, I have the options of: Synchronize Both field: Adds new files to both directories and copies newer common files from either directory to the other. Augment Target field: Adds new files from the source directory to the target directory. Refresh Target field: Update only existing files from the source directory to the target directory. Update Target field: Updates existing files and adds new files from the source directory to the target directory. Update & Prune Target field: Deletes files in the target directory that cannot be found in the source directory, updates existing files, and adds new files from the source directory to the target directory. Remove Duplicates from Target field: Deletes files in the target directory that were found in the source directory and were identical. If the Binary Check Files is on (Compare Options), files whose contents are identical are considered identical, otherwise if the date and time stamp is used to determine whether files are considered identical. Recreate Directory Structure Only: The directory structure of the source is created on the target but no files are copied. All subdirectories under the source path are reproduced regardless of program settings for view subdirectories (View Menu or Options-General). Delete All Empty Directories (from the target): Directories that contain no files on the target will be deleted. No other file operation is performed. All that being said, however, remember that the bat stores messages for each folder as ONE FILE. So if a file has some messages deleted and some added, that whole file will be replaced by the other file, which may have DIFFERENT messages added and deleted. Perhaps relevant to your other comment about different install locations, I consistently install ALL of the software I want to synchronize between two computers to ONE directory, namely "/all my stuff/ for me. So the whole contents of the directory are synched back and forth. It does mean I have to be VERY careful to synch before opening the same program on a different computer without synching first. Otherwise I could lose things, both sent and received, as well as changes made in my calendar program, etc. BTW, for calendar I used to use "Time & Chaos", which I've liked for some ten years. They recently (like last year) changed to !ntellect, which is same calendaring with an integrated mail client. I switched to it from TheBat!, but within three months, since it was clear they weren't interested in upgrading the mail side of it, switched back to TB. I may never even try again to switch away from TB. (And I only tried it due to the integration feature....which was terrible) dan -- The road goes on forever and the party never ends. REK, Jr. Dan Lester, Boise, ID ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
