"Filter by file Types":

"File Types" combobox

Designate filtering patterns of the file name. You can select the predefined file types in the combo box.

Please look at here about how to designate filtering patterns.

By pressing button to show "Select file types" Dialog. The dialog box will search the two folders excluding the sub-folder and files listed in the previous "Exclude &Include" Page, and list all the extensions in the two folders. You can select file types by check the file extensions.

"Include subfolders":

Put a check in this box, to synchronize files in all the sub-folder recursively.

"Exclude the designated types above":

If the option is checked, it will exclude all the file types designated in the "File Types" combo box.

For the filtering order, please refer to Exclude and Include Page.

"Filter by timestamp":

"Only files changed after/in following time are synchronized."

If you tick this option, BestSync will check the time stamp first to see if the file is necessary to be synchronized. If the timestamp does not meet the condition, BestSync will exclude the file from synchronization.

"After last synchronized time:"

Only the files and folders which changed after the last synchronized time are synchronized.

The first time synchronization will synchronize all the files.

"In the past specified time:"

Only the files and folders which changed in the past specified time are synchronized.
Input the 'XXX' days in the right edit box. If you want to input minute, input minute after "-" like the following:
1-300 (means one day and 300 minutes)

But if a file exists only in the source folder, even if the file stamp is older than XXX days, it still will be synchronized.

"Popup a dialog box to specify the time-range:"

When the task is started, the "Specify the time-range to filter the file" dialog box pops up. You can specify the time-range to filter the file. Only the files and folders which changed in the specified time-range are synchronized. But if a file exists only in the source folder, even if the file stamp is old, it still will be synchronized.
If you tick the "Backup all the file in the above range (include not changed) to the 'Backup Folder'", then all the files that have time-stamp in the specified time-range will backup to the "Backup Folder", despite of whether the files are changed or not.

NOTE:
This feature is useful for backup files that are changed in the specified time-range manually. But it is not suitable for a scheduled task, because every time the task is started, a dialog box pops up and the task will not be stated until the use set the time-range and end the dialog box.

"In this time range:"

Only the files and folders which changed between the specified two time range are synchronized. The time range is define as following:

<The first day>-00:00:00---><The second day>-23:59:59

If a file exists only in the source folder, even if the file stamp is old, it will be copied to the target folder.

"Filter sub-folders by timestamp:"

If this option is not checked, all the sub-folders will not be filtered by timestamp, because old sub-folder may still contain new files.

Check this option only when you want to exclude old sub-folders

"Ignore the file that are changed in less than this specified seconds."

Usually, you need not to select this option.

Use this option to avoid the BestSync from copying an incomplete file. The algorithm likes following:

CurrentTime: The current time.
FileTimeStamp: The timestamp of the file.
IgnorePeriod: The ignoring period specified here.

If (CurrentTime - FileTimeStamp < IgnorePeriod)
The file is not copied.
else
The file is processed by other filtering condition.

In Real-time sync mode, BestSync uses this option to delay the file copying. Instead of process the file immediately after change, BestSync waits the time set here, then process the file according to the change (copy, delete, move).

"Ignore file timestamp change caused by Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes."

If one of the two sync folders is in the FAT file system (includes the FAT system in the FTP server), when the Daylight-Saving-Time changes, the timestamps of the files in the FAT system will be one hour forward or backward. Select this option, BestSync can ignore the time difference caused by Daylight-Saving-Time change. If both of the folders are in NTFS system or Outlook, this option will be ignored.

"Don't copy files that are larger than [XXX] MB."

If this option is checked, large files that are larger than the specified size will not be synchronized.
In the result column of the preview, "Ignored by file-size filtering." is displayed.

Only in daytime(8:00-18:00)

If this option is checked, "Don't copy files that are larger than [XXX] MB." option takes affect only at the daytime.

"Only scan the source folder to detect whether files are changed. (Fast, only be suitable for single-direction synchronization.)"

If the single-direction synchronization is selected. This option can be selected to reduce the scanning time, especially when the target folder is a FTP folder.

At the first synchronization after the task is setup, BestSync still scans the target folder to prevent the all the files in the source folder from being copied to the target folder.

NOTE: Because the target folder is not scanned, any changes in the target are ignored.
For example, if a new file is copied to the target folder manually, and an old file is copied to the source folder, after synchronization, the old file in the source folder will overwrite the new file in the target folder.

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