Syncovery Support Forum

Something I've wanted to do for so long... to cull old backups...
is there any way/script/ or convoluted multi-step way, to have Syncovery do the inverse of what it's programmed to do? that is, comparing two folders, delete from one side those files/folders that appear identically on the other side, leaving only the non-duplicated ones... of course such an operation could only be unidirectional, but it could still be subject or not to the "detect moved files" variant...

thanks,

Roberto Michelena

You could use the "Move Files to Destination" mode, click "Configure", and choose "Delete identical or older files from source".

But that will actually merge the two sides. To avoid copying any new files from the source side, you can choose "Existence: One Side" in the Sync Preview.

Then there's the case where a file is newer on the source side than on the destination. Such a file would be copied to the destination, overwriting the older one.