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Profile Settings - File Age and Size

File Sizes Must Be Within
This option enables you to copy only files within a certain range of file sizes. Sample file sizes are: 512, 2.12k, 5M, 2G.

File Dates Must Be Withing
Using these settings, you can limit the synchronizing to files last modified or created within a certain period of time.

File Age
Rather than specifying a fixed date range, you may want to choose a certain age for the files that you want to synchronize. The age that you specify is always seen relative to the current date when the profile is executed.

Filter By: Last Modification / Creation
By default, the above timestamp filters take into account the date and time of the last modification of each file. In some cases, you may want to filter by creation date, so you can choose it here.

Apply To:  Files  |  Folders  |  Both
To get the most reliable operation of the file date filter, please use the default setting of Apply To: Files only. 

Folder timestamps under Windows are not consistent in such a way that they would be reliable for filtering. Applying timetamp filters to folders will often result in undesired exclusions of files.

However, there are some use cases where you may want to apply the filter to both files and folders, or even to folders only. For example, if you are distributing files from a copy of your folders made by another Syncovery profile, then you may filter by folder timestamps if the other profile has the option "Ensure Folder Timestamps Reflect the Most Recently Modified File in the Subtree" chosen on the Folders tab sheet, or the new options to touch parent folders.

Target Date for Restore
This option is mainly used by the Restore Wizard. By specifying a date in the past, the program can automatically choose the appropriate older versions of files when restoring (i.e. copying from the right-hand side to the left-hand side). This works for backups created with the Versioning settings. 

Scan Only Subfolders Whose Timestamp Has Changed Since the Previous Profile Run
Rarely used because file systems do not normally update folder timestamps correcly! 
This feature was introduced in Syncovery 9. It is automatically activated when doing (near)-Real-Time synchronization over Internet Protocols such as FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. Because only folders with new modification timestamps are read, the synchronization will be much quicker. To use it in other scenarios, the feature has been made available on this tab sheet.

This really works only when it is ensured that folder timestamps are all updated. File systems and cloud services will not usually do that. But Syncovery itself can ensure that folder timestamp are updated, with the option After Copying and Other Actions, Touch Affected Parent Folders from the Folders tab sheet.This could enable multiple Syncovery clients to perform 2-way syncs with a mutual storage location, where each client sets the folder timestamps to reflect the changes it has made.

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