FreeCommander Tutorial 3 of 3

Sorry for the blurriness that Youtube added to this video. The copy I made was high quality, hopefully you can still make out what I am doing in the program.

Here I'm is my third and last video describing how to use Free Commander to synchronize two separate directories on two different drives. This technique is useful if you use a USB drive on another computer and need to synchronize that USB drive with a directory you have at home on your primary computer.

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Science & Technology

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• FreeCommander
• Tutorial03

[emmm70]

Sorry to say, but what is teaching here is completely wrong.

Absolutely wrong.

I recommend to every one not to try to understand this video because it is a total nonsense.

[tg3793]

@emmm70 .

Well, in order for the criticism to be constructive you have to offer specifics. Otherwise I recommend anyone looking at your comment to simply overlook it as offering no really pointers or direction. Therefore my tutorial still stands as having value.

However at this point (for all viewers) this video is over a year old at this point and there may be changes to the newest version of Free Commander. However I use Linux now and won't be doing another review on this software.

[emmm70]

Sorry for being too blunt, but I think that it was necessary to review some fundamental concepts before doing a video.

(1) The option to ignore up to 2 seconds is because the resolution of the modified time field in a FAT file is only to 2 seconds, but in a NTFS file it is much more. So, if you need to compare a file in FAT file system vs. a file in NTFS, you need to mark this option. Otherwise, you don’t.

[tg3793]

@emmm70 .

... now these are constructive comments and I appreciate them. This also explains, back when I was using this program, why I need to check that option. I was in fact comparing NTFS to FAT much of the time (and vice-versa).

Thank you for the information. I'm sure it will benefit others as well.

[IrishStorm1]

This guy is driving me nuts. Someone wake him up. There is no point delivering a tutorial if you're gonna send us off to sleep. You seriously need a fire lit under you man. D'uh!

[reggielist1]

umm, thanks, ahh, umm, for, ahh, the, umm, umm, video, umm

[emmm70]

continuation ...

(2) The notion of synchronize is to make two folders the same. So, the best thing that one can do is to leave the right and left arrows marked before clicking Compare, and then you decide what to do in the window that pop-up after clicking Synchronize.