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Profile Settings - Versioning/More

This tab sheet contains various additional settings related to versioning.

The first two checkmarks are the most important ones. During normal operation, Syncovery decodes certain filenames on the right-hand side. For example, it deduces the original file name from a compressed archive, if the archive name has been created and encoded by Syncovery. However, if you want to make another 1:1 mirror of such encoded files, then that mirror job should not decode any file names, and you need the first two checkmarks to be ticked.

Do Not Decode Left/Right-Hand Filenames When Building The File List
Filenames where the program has encoded additional information into the filename are normally shown in their original, unencoded form. However, if you would like to make a 1:1 copy of a backup location which contains mangled filenames, then you need to use this setting so that files are copied without decoding their filenames. 

Timestamp Encoding Format
Choose the timestamp format to use for versioning. This is the format that is added to filenames if the versioning settings need such filename encoding.
- Syncovery Native (.dYYYYMMDD-uHHMMSS)
- Windows 10 File History (YYYY_MM_DD HH_MM_SS UTC)
Both encodings use UTC times (timezone independent world times).

Decode Timestamp Formats
Choose whether Syncovery should recognize and process only the chosen encoding format, or all known formats. Filenames encoded with timestamps are expected to exist on the right-hand side of a profile only, and are decoded for comparison against the left-hand side, which should contain the actual, original, unencoded filenames.

Clean up identical duplicates of files with differently encoded Unicode umlauts
Unicode allows accented characters and some symbols to be encoded in different ways - for example, as one accented character, or as the base character followed by the accent as a separate character. Due to the different encoding, files whose names look identical can exist in the same folder. This option will attempt to clean them up.

Allow merging duplicate folders on source side
This will enable merging duplicate folders on the source side, even in a one-way sync. This is rarely needed - only if two folders with identical name exist as duplicates. 

Remove parenthesized version numbers before extension on the right side: file(2).ext
Rarely used. This option will remove the version numbers in parentheses, like the example, from files on the right side, when copying right to left. Note that this checkmark is unrelated to any other versioning settings. The parenthesized version numbers are not something that Syncovery uses itself, it can only remove them.

Remove the versioning tags -1 and -2 and rename such files immediately while building the file list
Rarely used. This option helps cleaning up versioned files. These versioning tags may have been added by the conflict detection in SmartTracking mode.

Clean up all older versions based on the specified number to keep
If you change your versioning settings, you can use this checkmark to clean up the files and delete older versions which are no longer supposed to be kept. If unchecked, the limits are enforced only for files being copied.

See also: 
Upper Part Of Dialog Box
Advanced Settings