Why compare on file change detection?

[Guest]

I'm also really interested to have this functionnality.
Can you tell us at least when it will be reday ?

Thanks,

Fred

[philcruz]

+1 for really wanting this feature and knowing when it will be ready.

-Phil

[Guest]

Hello,

I saw in the changelog of VV PRo 2.5 the following improvement :

- IMPROVED: Added the ability to cancel file re-comparison after file copying/deleting and file sorting during file comparison, which makes ViceVersa and VVEngine more responsive during these operations.

Is this the solution to the problem we have in this post ?

Thanks for your answer.

Fred

[TGRMN Software]

Hello Fred,

no, the functionality discussed in this topic is not available yet.

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[onlyasking]

yes that got me too:

[TGRMN Software]

Hello

If you stop a running profile, now it stops immediately during comparison / sorting, in the previous version it would not. The "no-compare" feature is still under development.

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[malega]

The first post in this thread is from Jan. 2008, where you promised this feature would be added in the next release.

You have repeated this promise several times, and yet, in March 2010, more than 2 years later, it has not materialized.

Since the absence of this feature is the one major drawback to your software, especially as hard drive sizes increase, could you explain whether this feature is actually being worked on, or just in the wish list stage?

It is frustrating that this promised feature has been promised for so long with still no idea when or if it will ever be produced.

[dougalthedog]

I suspect the problem is that the current method of detecting changes does not provide the software with details of what file has changed - presumably the software uses folder size, datestamp or similar to tell when changes are made and that it why a rescan is necessary.

It is not as simple as only replacing the changed files because the program needs to know what is changed and it has to scan to do that! Therefore the solution most people seem to want is probably much more complex to code for than you think.

Bear in mind that what this software does for the price is pretty good indeed. There is software on the market which will update changes without rescanning but I haven't found any costing less than 10 x what this software costs!

By the way I have no connection with the software and only discovered it a few days ago. It would be great if this feature was there and I for one would be will to pay (a little) extra for it.

[TGRMN Software]

It is taking longer than expected, but this feature is pretty much on top of our to-do list and we hope to be able to release something soon.
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[John Doe]

Hi! What's the current status for this feature?

[John Doe]

Isn't it possible for VV just to store file details of the Source files locally and compare against that, instead of the (in my case remote) destination folder? I've requested this feature a looooong time ago and it's still not out there, despite the number of requests by other users in this thread already.

I'd rather hear it will never be realised, than to hear promises continiously. This way limits progression in so many ways...

[Nicola]

[TGRMN Software]

Hi Nicola,

are you after the feature where ViceVersa stores the remote files/folders info locally and does not rescan remote folders each time?

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[dsbelden]

Add me to the list of people who really need this feature in order to make VVEngine useful.

When VVEngine detects a file change, it shouldn’t then need to scan the entire source and target for changes so it can create a comparison — it should already know which file has changed and at most create a comparison for that file.

This behavior by VVEngine is creating a lot of extra disk / network traffic and I can’t enable CRC checking because it then takes a good hour to create the comparison just to copy a single file!

I’m currently using the trial version of VVEngine and can’t in good conscience purchase the full version until this behavior is fixed.

[TGRMN Software]

Yes, it would be a great improvement. So far we have released one no-rescan feature that can help in certain situations (however not with CRC comparison), see: http://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/item107.htm

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