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Profile Settings - Versioning/More

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.

Files Backup Up With V4 Used UTC/GMT (World Time) For Encoding (Like V5)
Up to version 4, filename encoding could use either the local time or world time. Because this was ambiguous, the filename encoding was changed to always use world time in version 5. If you still have older files, this checkmark is used to tell the program how to interpret the encoded timestamps. 

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