VV pro always wants to delete everything from target

[merk]

just installed VV pro and i set up a simple project. I added two folders to source, pointed them both to a folder on my target drive and let it back them up. I select time/size for comparison and mirroring as the sync method. Also turned on compression for target.

First time i ran it, it copied everything to the target folder, which is what i would expect.

now when i run it again, it wants to delete everything from the target folder. Most of the files will not have changed. In fact the only files i would expect it to have to re-copy would be my email files. Everything else stayed the same.

The source and target are both on the same PC, different hard drives. Both partitions are NTFS.

Any ideas whats going wrong here? The only thing i can think of, which sounds dumb, is that because the compressed target file is a different size then the uncompressed source file, its seeing it as different. But that seems pretty dumb to me. I would think i should be able to keep my source files uncompressed and still have it intelligently compare the uncompressed source with the compressed target.

[merk]

it seems to have something to do with the fact that i have multiple sources.

Right now i'm backing up my email folder to m:\backups and my 'my documents' folder to m:\backups

It seems if i specific a different target folder for each source folder, that stops it from deleting everything and starting all over.

[TGRMN Software]

Yes, if you setup Update and Prune (that is mirroring / backup) like this

A->Z
B->Z

The first time you run this VV will copy A to Z and B to Z.
The second time VV will see B files in Z and will want to delete them because they are not in A.

Try this setup instead:
A->Z\A
B->Z\B

this will work as expected.
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[merk]

ahh ok cool. seems to be working now.

thanks