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: Complicated issue but important because I think it's very helpful for developers to know where they stand in the crowd of other solutions. --[[User:Dan-yell|Dan-yell]] ([[User talk:Dan-yell|talk]]) 00:08, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
to the unsigned comment (IP): this might be another issue, and more important to some people, but the comment does not belong here, there should be a spearate section for discussing two-way snycronization. That beeing said, I agree that it is a featrue that should be in the table as well.
to Dan-yell (and actually to myself too): I tested FreeFileSync again, more thoroughly now, and found out that it actually does the move/rename as said, but it's a little complicated, that's probably why I missed it the first time. First, it has to be turned on specifically, and the checkbox (called "Detect moved files") is only present in the "Synchronisation" tab of the options, not in the "Compare" tab. Second, this works only after at least one pass has been done before, with this option turned on. What happens the first time is, some kind of database is written, which seems to be used for subsequent passes to determine what will be moved (instead of copied again). There are a few problems with this system overall, for example, if more than one candidate is present to use for renaming (can be simulated by copying a file a few times), if seems to pick a random one, and doesn't seem to be aware of some conflict there. To be fair, it should be said that there is a tooltip that mentions both the database and that it's not available on the first run, it's still easy to miss if you do only test runs (comparisons that is) before actually synchronizing once and going on testing.
In general, I have to say I am too biased now to edit the main page anyhow, since I started to develop a program that handles such problems (will soon make it public, I think). -- [[User:Waldemar7k|Waldemar7k]] ([[User talk:Waldemar7k|talk]]) 18:42, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
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