The preferences window give you the ability of affecting the behavior
of File Synchronization.
The first section gives you control of what File Synchronization
will do in the case it encounters an error while performing the
synchronization. You can just log the error and continue. After the
synchronization is done, a list of errors will be displayed. You can
stop the synchronization and display the error. You will then be given
the choice to continue the synchronization or cancel it. The last
choice will completely stop the synchronization. You will be presented
with the error, but you won't be able to continue the synchronization.
File Synchronization has also the ability of creating a log of
what happened during a specific synchronization. You can see in that
section where exactly will be saved the log. The format for the log
filename will be YY.MM.DD-HH.MM.SS.txt. You also have the
ability of opening the generated log file in the default application
for opening text files.
The next section lets you control where you want the main window's
drawer to appear. By default, the drawer will slide to the right but you
might want to have it slide at the bottom of the main window.
This section lets you choose what to do with deleted files. You can
have them removed or erased by default, or if you enable the Move
files to trash instead of deleting them, File Synchronization
will do just that, move them to the trash. You'll be able to review
the deleted files before it's too late. Note that due to a bug in the
Finder, even with files that are moved to the trash, the trash icon in
the Dock doesn't always shows that there are files in it. But if you
click on the trash icon to open its window, the Dock/Finder will realize
that files were thrown away and will change its appearance to a full
trash can. The files will appear in the trash window. The other setting, Display an alert before deleting or moving
an orphaned file to trash offers extra protection. If you enable
this setting, everytime that File
Synchronization is about to delete a file or move it to the
trash, an alert dialog will appear and you will have the choice of
continying the synchronization and deleting the file or stop the
synchronization altogether.
This section gives you control over the repeated synchronization
and the automatic synchronization at launch. If you specially selected
some pairs of folders or files in the main window, you have to enable
the repetition or the automatic synchronization at launch in the
preferences. To enable any pair for automatic or repeated
synchronization, click the Auto
checkbox in the main list to enable it or click the Mark for automatic and repeated
synchronization checkbox in the drawer or the inspector.
The Automatically synchronize pairs that are marked for automatic synchronization when File Synchronization launches does exactly what it says: when launching File Synchronization, the pairs that have their Auto checkbox enabled will be synchronized. If you want to temporarily disable the auto sync at launch, immediately after launching File Synchronization, press and hold the Spacebar key when the main window appears and hold it down for 5 or 6 seconds. The Automatically quit after synchronizing will quit File Synchronization when the last pair selected for automatic synchronization has been synchronized. If there are any error encountered, the synchronization will stop and you will have to intervene to fix the problem.
If you want to keep repeating the synchronization for the pairs set
for Auto, enable the checkbox Enable repeating synchronization.
Then, set the time interval used to repeat the synchronization. You
have a choice of minutes, hours or days. Note that if an automatic
synchronization is due to start and there is already a synchronization
in progress, the automatic synchronization will be canceled for that
specific time and will be repeated after the time interval. If any error
are detected, the automatic synchronization will stop, waiting for you
to fix the error. The time interval will start when you click the Close button.
Finally, the last section is called Interface. The checkbox Closing main window quits File Synchronization gives you the ability of quitting File Synchronization when you close the main window. The List row height slider lets you adjust the size of the rows in the table of the main window. When changing the size, you can have a preview below the slider of how the rows will look like.
At the bottom of the window and always present are 3 buttons that will change
their appearance depending on your actions. Initially, only the Close button
will be enabled and the default button. If you make any change to any preference,
the Revert and Save buttons will be
enabled, with the Save button becoming the default button. Note
that any change you make won't be active unless you save those changes
and then close the preferences window. For example, the time interval
for the repeated synchronization won't start until the window is closed.
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Preview Window page.
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Registration Process.
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