synchronize and timestamps

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V4.2.1 build 428
Win XP PRo
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SFTP protocol

Is there any way to use the synchronize command with SFTP when you have no ability to set permissions or timestamp. aka "permissions errors"

I may be in a unique position, but the local and remote directories I am sync'ng are going to be empty every day.

From FAQ and posts I found synchronize wants/need to use the timestamp, synchronize works better for me than put, especially since put creates "xxxx.xxx not found" errors when that days directory may be empty, but synchronize does not and the users who review these logs can not handle seeing errors regardless of training. Error means the world has ended to them, period. I then have to waste time to confirm that there was no error just that directory was empty that day.

I tried :

synchronize -nopermissions -notimestamps

No joy.

Any way or chance that synchronize can work similar to put, and only look at the filenames or something?

Thanks in advance.

rec9140 wrote:

Is there any way to use the synchronize command with SFTP when you have no ability to set permissions or timestamp. aka "permissions errors"

This issue is being tracked already.

From FAQ and posts I found synchronize wants/need to use the timestamp, synchronize works better for me than put, especially since put creates "xxxx.xxx not found" errors when that days directory may be empty, but synchronize does not

Do not see a reason with put should display errors when target directory is empty.
When source directory is empty, you should not get any errors when you use wildcard instead of specifying explicit name. Like:

martin wrote:

When source directory is empty, you should not get any errors when you use wildcard instead of specifying explicit name. Like:

put c:\source_directory\*.*

I'll try that as I had


Where xxx is a specific file extension to ensure that is the only file type that gets sent.

Thanks, and I look forward to a resolution on the synchronize as that would make life a lot better.

Thanks.

*.xxx should work as well. Can you post a log file and output of the script?