2x suggestions for SyncToy

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1. SyncToy should be able to process several files at the same time, e.g.
copy files onto the right folder concurrently

2. Folder delete should be allowed, e.g. under ECHO, if a folder no longer
exists on the left side folder, it should be deleted from the right side
folder, which does not seem the case in the current version

Thanks
 
1. SyncToy should be able to process several files at the same time, e.g.
copy files onto the right folder concurrently
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Can I ask why? Although the OS may be multitasking, hard drives, by their
mechanical nature, aren't. The concurrent read/write threads would spend
most of their time waiting for the hard drive to keep up, unless you're
reading sets of files from different drives (NOT different partitions off
the same drive) and also writing to different drives. Then there's also
copying across a LAN...a single hard drive read operation can provide data a
lot faster than your average network connection can handle. If you have
multiple threads each sending its own data set across the wire, again you'll
just overload everything and spend more time waiting for the concurrent
operations to complete...
 
You are right, copying multiple files to/from the same physsical HD
would create more overhead, the total operation would be slower, not faster.
 
Thanks for the thoughts folks,

We don't see a big win when we spin up multiple copy threads, though the
analysis already benefits from multi-threading.

We'll keep the "erase empty folders" idea in mind.

Thanks,
george
 
George, if SyncToy could "erase empty folders" it would be a winner. Im
finding it very usefull though, its a great toy!
arby
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Hi!

I've started using SyncToy about two weeks ago to "replace" robocopy
synch'ing mu PDA with my business laptop and then the laptop with my home
desktop... IT'S GREAT :-)

Now I have a question which is exactly the opposite of the one in this
threads:

SyncToy is NOT copying empty folders while to have a real mirror of my PDA I
need them too.

What about an option to let the user decide how to handle empty folders?

Ciao, Giangi
 
Ditto on the request. Thanks for the cool app!

George Goley - Microsoft said:
Thanks for the thoughts folks,

We don't see a big win when we spin up multiple copy threads, though the
analysis already benefits from multi-threading.

We'll keep the "erase empty folders" idea in mind.

Thanks,
george
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