At first glance GoodSync seemed an excellent solution. I could've easy named it the best folder synchronization software available for mac. But after doing some testing I decided to remove it from my computer. In area of backup and synchronization - I require a software that is more than reliable. Meanhwile, GoodSync has some major issues with properly handling folders & files operations! I do not know whether these arise from some minor bugs in selection/deselection/context/pointer handling - but it resulted in removal of files and folders I had never wished to remove! Actually I didn't even touch those files in comparison results nor tried to sync them. Thank you, author, for _saved_ folder as I could recover missing files. But such an unpredicted behaviour is much unacceptable to me. :-(
Other issues:
- when select a few items and pick "delete right file" only first (?) of selected items is actually removed (or maybe GoodSync removed then the other items I had later found in _saved_ folder?)
- expand/collapse state of folders is not maintained between operations; this is frustrating
- unable to apply default auto-resolution of conflicts when job is not done in schedule - must decide for every item
- the interface is incredibly slow; after comparing a few thousand files I decided to apply "copy to right" rule for all about 600 conflicting items selected at once - the program hanged forever
But all those above is - i must say this once again - nothing in comparison to the unpredictable file handling issue.
It seems that 1.9.8 version has trouble with "Follow symbolic links" option. I've got a few symlinks to folders (not Mac aliases though!) and these are always treated as folders (and so all the children tree is compared) regardless of the setting.
BTW. I would love to see hex-binary comparison window as an option of file comparison.
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GoodSync
kubaw reviewed on 07 Mar 2012
Other issues:
- when select a few items and pick "delete right file" only first (?) of selected items is actually removed (or maybe GoodSync removed then the other items I had later found in _saved_ folder?)
- expand/collapse state of folders is not maintained between operations; this is frustrating
- unable to apply default auto-resolution of conflicts when job is not done in schedule - must decide for every item
- the interface is incredibly slow; after comparing a few thousand files I decided to apply "copy to right" rule for all about 600 conflicting items selected at once - the program hanged forever
But all those above is - i must say this once again - nothing in comparison to the unpredictable file handling issue.
Folder Sync
DeltaWalker
kubaw reviewed on 13 Feb 2012
BTW. I would love to see hex-binary comparison window as an option of file comparison.