Synctoy feature request

I would like to be able to backup files like
DESKTOP.INI and THUMBS.DB

This is because i "brand" my different folders with different icons
different background images and different icon-text-colors

Is it possible to include in the new synctoy a list of pre-choosen files not
to sync
(ex the one mentioned above) but with the ability to UNCHECK them if you
actually DO WANT TO SYNC THEM.... Cause I really want to sync such files.
Inorder to keep the backup looking like the source, and so that one does not
have to manually go over 10.000 folders to change theyr folder icons back,
whenever one has to utilize the backup files...

It would be much better if you included a list of "pre-choosen" files that
synctoy doesnt sync, and then let the user UNCHECK the one's that the
actually do want to sync anyways...

I and many i know, do actually need to sync these .ini and .db files
and funny thing in version 1.4... If i write in that i want desktop.ini or
*.ini synched, it still doesnt sync it... that is rather annoying!

I have the same issue. I use to SyncToy to backup all my pictures to
an external drive in ECHO mode.

However I just realised that the thumbs.db files are not copied across
to my external drive (even though I haven't excluded them or anything
like that).

I can't see a reason as to why I wouldn't want to copy these to my
backup device as it makes browsing pictures on the external drive
quicker. Also when doing a santiy check of my source and target
folders the number of files is a complete mismatch because of the
missing thumbs.db files.



On Jan 5, 3:55 am, AlexData <AlexD...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I would like to be able to backup files like
> DESKTOP.INI andTHUMBS.DB
>
> This is because i "brand" my different folders with different icons
> different background images and different icon-text-colors
>
> Is it possible to include in the new synctoy a list of pre-choosen files not
> to sync
> (ex the one mentioned above) but with the ability to UNCHECK them if you
> actually DO WANT TO SYNC THEM.... Cause I really want to sync such files.
> Inorder to keep the backup looking like the source, and so that one does not
> have to manually go over 10.000 folders to change theyr folder icons back,
> whenever one has to utilize the backup files...
>
> It would be much better if you included a list of "pre-choosen" files that
> synctoy doesnt sync, and then let the user UNCHECK the one's that the
> actually do want to sync anyways...
>
> I and many i know, do actually need to sync these .ini and .db files
> and funny thing in version 1.4... If i write in that i want desktop.ini or
> *.ini synched, it still doesnt sync it... that is rather annoying!

Alex / TopDog,

Although I see your point of view and concern we have heard from many people
who do not want to see these files being synced because most people see these
a local setting files which dont make sense on the other side. You may in
fact be overwriting locally valid config in the desktop.ini files with remote
invalid config.

We'll see if we can make this an option in a future release - however the
window for these kinds of feature changes is probably closed for the 2.0
release.

Thanks for the feedback.

Ashish Shah
SyncToy Development

"TopDog" wrote:

> I have the same issue. I use to SyncToy to backup all my pictures to
> an external drive in ECHO mode.
>
> However I just realised that the thumbs.db files are not copied across
> to my external drive (even though I haven't excluded them or anything
> like that).
>
> I can't see a reason as to why I wouldn't want to copy these to my
> backup device as it makes browsing pictures on the external drive
> quicker. Also when doing a santiy check of my source and target
> folders the number of files is a complete mismatch because of the
> missing thumbs.db files.
>
>
>
> On Jan 5, 3:55 am, AlexData <AlexD...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > I would like to be able to backup files like
> > DESKTOP.INI andTHUMBS.DB
> >
> > This is because i "brand" my different folders with different icons
> > different background images and different icon-text-colors
> >
> > Is it possible to include in the new synctoy a list of pre-choosen files not
> > to sync
> > (ex the one mentioned above) but with the ability to UNCHECK them if you
> > actually DO WANT TO SYNC THEM.... Cause I really want to sync such files.
> > Inorder to keep the backup looking like the source, and so that one does not
> > have to manually go over 10.000 folders to change theyr folder icons back,
> > whenever one has to utilize the backup files...
> >
> > It would be much better if you included a list of "pre-choosen" files that
> > synctoy doesnt sync, and then let the user UNCHECK the one's that the
> > actually do want to sync anyways...
> >
> > I and many i know, do actually need to sync these .ini and .db files
> > and funny thing in version 1.4... If i write in that i want desktop.ini or
> > *.ini synched, it still doesnt sync it... that is rather annoying!
>
>

BTW, I'll give you a manual workaround for this ;-) If you unmark the System
or Hidden attribute on those files, we will actually sync them. We only don't
sync these files if they are marked as both System AND Hidden.

-Ashish


"Ashish" wrote:

> Alex / TopDog,
>
> Although I see your point of view and concern we have heard from many people
> who do not want to see these files being synced because most people see these
> a local setting files which dont make sense on the other side. You may in
> fact be overwriting locally valid config in the desktop.ini files with remote
> invalid config.
>
> We'll see if we can make this an option in a future release - however the
> window for these kinds of feature changes is probably closed for the 2.0
> release.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Ashish Shah
> SyncToy Development
>
> "TopDog" wrote:
>
> > I have the same issue. I use to SyncToy to backup all my pictures to
> > an external drive in ECHO mode.
> >
> > However I just realised that the thumbs.db files are not copied across
> > to my external drive (even though I haven't excluded them or anything
> > like that).
> >
> > I can't see a reason as to why I wouldn't want to copy these to my
> > backup device as it makes browsing pictures on the external drive
> > quicker. Also when doing a santiy check of my source and target
> > folders the number of files is a complete mismatch because of the
> > missing thumbs.db files.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 5, 3:55 am, AlexData <AlexD...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I would like to be able to backup files like
> > > DESKTOP.INI andTHUMBS.DB
> > >
> > > This is because i "brand" my different folders with different icons
> > > different background images and different icon-text-colors
> > >
> > > Is it possible to include in the new synctoy a list of pre-choosen files not
> > > to sync
> > > (ex the one mentioned above) but with the ability to UNCHECK them if you
> > > actually DO WANT TO SYNC THEM.... Cause I really want to sync such files.
> > > Inorder to keep the backup looking like the source, and so that one does not
> > > have to manually go over 10.000 folders to change theyr folder icons back,
> > > whenever one has to utilize the backup files...
> > >
> > > It would be much better if you included a list of "pre-choosen" files that
> > > synctoy doesnt sync, and then let the user UNCHECK the one's that the
> > > actually do want to sync anyways...
> > >
> > > I and many i know, do actually need to sync these .ini and .db files
> > > and funny thing in version 1.4... If i write in that i want desktop.ini or
> > > *.ini synched, it still doesnt sync it... that is rather annoying!
> >
> >