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Billie



Joined: 06 May 2011
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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:36 pm    Post subject: File Changes in Target Reply with quote
I am evaluating VV so if I ask stupid questions please excuse me. I mirror copied a 550 GB HD to the target HD. Then I went through the target HD to sample photo files and be sure that it was useable with Adobe Lightroom. I opened and closed the files but did not change anything. Today when I did a mirror backup of source to target many files in the target were newer than the source. I got warnings and had to go to Advanced settings and check to overwrite the target with the source settings even if they were older.

I am assuming that even opening a file in the target will change the date stamp and so it will appear as a newer file. Is this correct?

After the initial mirror backup, would it be better to used the replication update method to keep a large photo library backup file current?
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2011 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi, thank you for evaluating ViceVersa.

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I am assuming that even opening a file in the target will change the date stamp and so it will appear as a newer file. Is this correct?


Usually that should not happen. Only changing/saving files should change the modified timestamp (which ViceVersa uses). However, it could be that Adobe Lightroom changes the timestamps when opening the files? check with Windows Explorer if after opening the files, the modified timestamp has changed.

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After the initial mirror backup, would it be better to used the replication update method to keep a large photo library backup file current?


Yes, if you do not want to delete anything from target. See:
http://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/item27.htm

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