Compare directory : Wrong "No difference found"

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Compare directory : Wrong "No difference found"

Hello,

WinnSCP could be fanstastic for me, in order to obtain a NTFS image of a network drive.

But it happens that WinSCP does not see any differences on directories obviously different.

It happened for example on the "Users" folder from a drive : empty on the local drive, 5 folders on remote. The same inconstancies are found when using the "Synchronize ..." command. All files under "Users" are not found.

I fixed the problem by using another tool to copy the missing folders to the local NTFS target.

The setting is (not sure for labels, I use french version) :
  • from distant to local
  • mirror files
  • remove files
  • see changes
  • compare with file sizes only (as I have problems with I hour shift for some files, despite having checked "use DST" in the Environment tab in session dialog)
I use SFTP and the GUI to connect to the NAS (which is OpenMediaVault)

Regards,
Fred

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Re: Compare directory : Wrong "No difference found"

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Hello,

I have reproduced the bug on another folder : see screenshots : no differences found with the "Synchronize" command but the directory listed on each panel has different names (although similar)

Best regards

Description: Screen shot options "Synchronize"

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Description: Screen shot result

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Description: Log file

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Oh, thank you !

I understand I should turn off filename modification.

However, I think I had an erroneous "No difference found" on directories without special filenames (in fact, WinSCP did not see there were missing subfolders in the target folder). If I encounter again something like this, I will complete this topic.

Best regards.

Fred

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