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Settings:
• Go to the "Settings" panel by choosing the "Settings" command from the "Option" menu, or clicking on the "S" icon on the console panel. The Settings panel grants several check-boxes and radio-buttons. • Synchronization/Backup If "Synchronization" is checked, FS will perform a synchronization, if "Backup" is checked, FS will perform a backup from the source folder (top side in the console) to the destination folder (bottom side in the console). • Exact Sync/Backup If checked, FS will execute an Exact Sync or an Exact Backup. If the task is a Backup, this option tells FS to delete from the destination folder, all the items that no longer exist in the source folder. If the task is a Synchronization, this option tells FS to delete from both the source and the destination folder, all the items that "you" deleted after the last Exact Sync from the specular folder. The result is that the destination folder will be an exact copy of the source folder. Even if this seems to be as a simple "Finder copy", FS performs that faster than the Finder. The Finder Copy deletes the whole destination folder, then copies the source folder entirely. If the source folder contains 1,000 files, the Finder copies 1,000 files. Instead, for instance during a backup, FS copies only the newly created files from the source to destination (if existing in the source folder and not yet existing in the destination folder), replaces the destination files only if their related source files have the most recent modification date, and deletes from the destination folder all the items that no longer exist in the source folder. This could mean a few files only... not the full 1,000 files. Use this option with the utmost care, and better, activate the Preview option in the FS Preferences panel, so you can inspect what FS is going to do. • Invisible items If checked, FS will also consider all the invisible files/folders when copying. You should always mark this check-box, so FS can copy some important invisible files. Even if you unmarked this check-box, FS will always copy invisible files whose filename starts with "." (e.g. ".DS_Store). Usually this check-box should be marked (default). When backing up the boot disk, this check-box must be marked. • Locked files If unchecked, FS will never replace/delete locked items. If checked, it can do this, if necessary. Please note that FS can under no circumstances unlock a file placed on a write-protected disk (like a CD-ROM). Usually this check-box should be marked (default). When backing up the boot disk, this check-box must be marked. • Resolve alias If checked, FS will attempt to resolve aliases considering the target items instead of the alias items themselves using the target (file or folder) name and not the name of the alias. Usually this check-box should be unmarked (default). When backing up the boot disk, this check-box must be unmarked. • Resolve Sym Links If checked, FS will attempt to resolve Sym Links considering the target items instead of the Sym Links items themselves using the target (file or folder) name and not the name of the Sym Link. Usually this check-box should be unmarked (default). When backing up the boot disk, this check-box must be unmarked. • Skip Empty Folders If marked, FS doesn't copy the empty folders, but if it needs to delete an empty folder (think about an Exact Backup) it can do. FS will consider a folder empty, even if it contains the hidden file ".DS_Store". If you applied some filter or some excluding item, FS will consider a folder empty if containing only files to be filtered or to be excluded from the copy. Usually this check-box should be unmarked (default). When backing up the boot disk, this check-box must be unmarked. • New Items Only If marked, FS will copy only the new files (new additions, that is items which have never been backed up) and will never replace/update the existing destination files with the most recent-updated source files. Usually this check-box should be unmarked (default). When backing up the boot disk, this check-box must be unmarked. • Packages as Folders A file package is a folder looking like a file in the Finder (e.g. a ".nib" file) but indeed containing other files and folders. If you want to open a file package and see its contents, in the Finder click on a file package icon holding down the Control key then choose the menu item "Show Package Contents". If you leave this check-box off, FS will backup/sync the whole file package with all the files it contains. If you mark this check-box, FS will treat the file packages as they were folders, therefore FS will backup/sync only the files within the file package which have been modified/created/deleted, and not all the files contained in the file package. This features comes useful to backup/sync file packages as the iPhoto 8 library file. The iPhoto 8 application in facts updates only some file inside the file package library, therefore is not necessary to backup/sync all the time the whole file package library which could contains GB of data. This feature doesn't regard the files with the extension "app" (the applications - which are file packages too). • Apply If you click on the button Apply holding down the Option key, FS will apply the changes without coming back to the console. So you will be able to change (from the pop-up menu in the tool bar) and edit other Sessions in the same panel. • The PDF User manual (version 2 only) contains more detailed information.