RE: SyncToy 2.0 Beta now available!

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Your questions and comments:

The user interface works very well in 1.4. I followed the instructions on
how to upgrade from 1.4 to 2.0.
Because of the problems I experience I have since uninstalled 2.0 and went
back to 1.4.

I use large size (120DPI) fonts. US English

User interface: The problem I experience may be because of the service pack
of the .NET framework 2 which was installed when I installed VS2008 Beta 2. I
experience no problem with it after having gone back to 1.4

I realise the removal of empty folders is by design. It should however be
optional of course, because sometimes one would want to remove empty
subfolders and sometimes not!
I am thus proposing a vast improvement which would be very simple to
implement:
- Make the removal of empty folders optional (checkbox or whatever way you
prefer). Please?
Your proposal of subfolder exclusion is downright impractical in my case
because of the large number of subfolders involved.

"Ashish" wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for trying out the new SyncToy. We're working on getting an external
email alias setup so users can report SyncToy bugs with details. Meanwhile, I
have a couple of questions for you:

- This user interface issue you're having, was this not happening with
SyncToy 1.4? Did you upgrade from 1.4?
- Do you have any special display settings, such as large fonts, different
language settings, etc?

We have tested SyncToy 2.0 on the setup you mention below and we havent seen
any UI issues.

Regarding the empty folders question - I'm sorry this is by design now. We
will sync empty folders in the new release. If you would like to exclude them
from synchronization, you can use the sub-folder exclusion feature in the
folder pair options.

Thanks
-Ashish Shah
SyncToy Development

"vtondrjc" wrote:

I have installed Synctoy 2.0 Beta. It contains a number of features to which
I have been looking forward to and seems to work OK, except for a few issues:

1. The user interface window does not display properly on my computer.
(Windows XP professional, Service pack 2; .NET Framework 2.0 Service pack 1;
Screen size 1280 x 1024)
a The folder pair frame is too wide and overlaps the right-hand frame.
That makes the left-hand part of the right hand frame invisible/unreachable
b Resizing the folder pair frame does not work properly. The frame can
be made wider but not narrower. (The minimum width that the frame can be
resized to is far to big)
c If the folder pair frame is made wider, the size of the whole window
is increased. (The right hand frame width is retained, not shrunk to fit in
the window).

2. Empty folders (which I use only on the primary machine and do not want
created on a secondary machine) cannot be deselected during an Echo
operation. (Checkboxes blurred)

3 Is there perhaps an e-mail address where I can send a screen print to a
developer to help demonstrate the user interface problem? - or any other bug
reports for that matter?


"Ashish" wrote:

SyncToy 2.0 Beta was just released to the Microsoft.com Download Center and
can be installed from the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&displaylang=en

We heard your feedback on SyncToy 1.4 and the 2.0 version addresses many of
the user issues and concerns and adds some very useful new features. See
below for the list of improvements made in this release:

- Dynamic Drive Letter Assignment: Drive letter reassignment will now be
detected and updated in the folder pair definition.
- True Folder Sync: Folder creates, renames and deletes are now synchronized
for all SyncToy actions.
- Exclusion Filtering Based on Name: File exclusion based on name with exact
or fuzzy matching.
- Filtering Based on File Attributes: The ability to exclude files based on
one or more file attributes (Read-Only, System, Hidden).
- Unattended Folder Pair Execution: Addressed issues related to running
scheduled folder pairs while logged off.
- Folder Pairs With Shared Endpoints: Ability for folder pairs associated
with the same or different instances of SyncToy to share end-points.
- Command line enhancements: Added the ability to manage folder pairs via
the command line interface.
- Sync engine is also more robust insomuch that many single, file level
errors are skipped without affecting the entire sync operation.
- Sync Encrypted Files: Sync of Encrypted files works when local folder and
files are encrypted, which addresses the common scenario involving sync
between local, encrypted laptop PC folder and remote, unencrypted desktop PC
folder.
- 64-Bit compatibility
- Folder pair rename
- Sub-folder Exclusion Enhancements: Descendents creates under excluded
sub-folders are automatically excluded.
- Folder Pair Metadata Moved: Folder pair metadata removed from My Documents
to resolve any issues with server-based folder pair re-direction setup.

As the name suggests this is a Beta release (albeit well-tested inside
Microsoft) and we look forward to user feedback on it and to doing the final
release in the near future. Also, please review the release notes on the
download page before upgrading from 1.4 to 2.0.

Thanks
Ashish Shah
SyncToy Development Team
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