Default settings combined subfolders with similar names - how to change?

[Iodine]

Hi All, syncovery is a fantastic program. I'm not sure how to change this setting though, it has never come up for me before.

I did a big sync of a directory, and the destination already had tons of media files in it. Syncovery found subfolders with matching names and combined them.

For example, both of these projects have a subfolder called "Uber Art" and now the files for both projects are in only 1 folder instead of each project having it's own sub folder called "Uber art"

Logs:

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Going to check if higher level folder should be moved instead: \Ambition\Ambition_Art\Mezzanine Package to \A Walk To Remember\A_Walk_To_Remember_ProResHQ\A_Walk_To_Remember_Art
Remembering renamed folder on right side: \A Walk To Remember\A_Walk_To_Remember_ProResHQ\A_Walk_To_Remember_Art\Uber_Art

Moved folder   T:\Ambition\Ambition_Art\Mezzanine Package\Uber_Art
            to T:\A Walk To Remember\A_Walk_To_Remember_ProResHQ\A_Walk_To_Remember_Art\Uber_Art

The end result is that the Uber Art for "Ambition" is now in the Uber Art folder for "A walk to remember"

I would really love to know how to tweak or disable this feature so that I can maintain my directory structure and add to it without mixing projects up. Thanks in advance for your anticipated reply.

P.S. do you recommend I fix this manually or is there some way to fix it programmatically using syncovery? Thanks.

[tobias]

Hello,
this is done by the checkmark "Detect Moved Files and Renamed Folders".

A folder move or rename is only detected if both folders contain many of the same files.

You could turn this off.

I think you need to restore the previous state by manually moving folders back.

Was this a one-way or two-way sync?

If you like you could send the whole log file to support@syncovery.com, if it doesn't contain confidential file or folder names, so I can look into the problem in more details.

[Iodine]

Thank you for the answer. I will fix it manually. It was a one way sync from 2 different servers onto a new server which will contain the combined elements of both of the old servers.

I will try disabling "Detect Moved Files and Renamed Folders"