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Synctoy and tilde (~) character

Posted: 09-06-2005, 04:53 PM
Homer J. Simpson
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I've noticed that SyncToy 1.0 seems to be having lots of problems with files
that contain tilde characters in them--it's constantly complaining it can't
find them, even though they exist.

I've also noticed that whenever I delete folders on one machine, SyncToy
will not necessarily delete all copies it previously made on a remote
machine.

SyncToy's a great idea, and I can't complain about the price, but I'm
seriously thinking I need to start looking at alternatives.


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ljb
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Re: Synctoy and tilde (~) character
Posted: 09-06-2005, 05:03 PM

"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> I've noticed that SyncToy 1.0 seems to be having lots of problems with
files
> that contain tilde characters in them--it's constantly complaining it
can't
> find them, even though they exist.
>
> I've also noticed that whenever I delete folders on one machine, SyncToy
> will not necessarily delete all copies it previously made on a remote
> machine.
>
> SyncToy's a great idea, and I can't complain about the price, but I'm
> seriously thinking I need to start looking at alternatives.
>
>
I've never been let down by Robocopy.exe. Its somewhat complex to set up but
has been very reliable for years. Its currently available for download as
part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en.
It runs under XP and has history dating from Windows NT 4.

LJB


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Homer J. Simpson
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Re: Synctoy and tilde (~) character
Posted: 09-07-2005, 02:46 PM
>> SyncToy's a great idea, and I can't complain about the price, but I'm
>> seriously thinking I need to start looking at alternatives.
>
> I've never been let down by Robocopy.exe. Its somewhat complex to set up
> but
> has been very reliable for years. Its currently available for download as
> part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools at
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en.
> It runs under XP and has history dating from Windows NT 4.
Holy command line parameters! :-)

Well, if it works better than SyncToy, then it'll be just a matter of
writing and tweaking a batch file once...thanks.


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ljb
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Re: Synctoy and tilde (~) character
Posted: 09-07-2005, 03:30 PM

"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> >> SyncToy's a great idea, and I can't complain about the price, but I'm
> >> seriously thinking I need to start looking at alternatives.
> >
> > I've never been let down by Robocopy.exe. Its somewhat complex to set up
> > but
> > has been very reliable for years. Its currently available for download
as
> > part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools at
> >
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en.
> > It runs under XP and has history dating from Windows NT 4.
>
> Holy command line parameters! :-)
>
> Well, if it works better than SyncToy, then it'll be just a matter of
> writing and tweaking a batch file once...thanks.
>
>
The following is similar to what I usually use

SET LOG="c:\ReplicateFiles.log"
rem Delete previous log file
DEL %LOG%
SET PRAM=/MIR /NP /R:3 /W:30 /A-:RA /LOG+:%LOG%
ROBOCOPY c:\work c:\backup\work %PRAM%
ROBOCOPY c:\done c:\backup\done %PRAM%

LJB


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George Goley - Microsoft
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RE: Synctoy and tilde (~) character
Posted: 09-21-2005, 12:52 AM
Homer,

We're looking into the ~ problem. Your second issue is the "delete empty
folders" enhancement that several people have mentioned and that we will
consider for a future release.

Thanks,
george

"Homer J. Simpson" wrote:
> I've noticed that SyncToy 1.0 seems to be having lots of problems with files
> that contain tilde characters in them--it's constantly complaining it can't
> find them, even though they exist.
>
> I've also noticed that whenever I delete folders on one machine, SyncToy
> will not necessarily delete all copies it previously made on a remote
> machine.
>
> SyncToy's a great idea, and I can't complain about the price, but I'm
> seriously thinking I need to start looking at alternatives.
>
>
>
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