Synchronize dirs doesn't show differences cos of wincmd.ini

[Guillaume]

When comparing two directories (which have are almost identical) it happens frequently that TC skips some files completely.

For example, I have a file in one directory which isn't in the other, TC simply ignores this one.

Now I have installed a clean TC installation and did the same thing: this time the differences between the directories were recognized!

I figured this would mean the wincmd.ini file was screwed up, so I compared the two files on anything with 'sync'. I came up with these two values:

syncflags = 5
syncbutton = 31

When removing both, the comparison went perfectly again. Now, my questions are: What's wrong with the two values above, what do they mean? And if they lead to an incorrect comparison, how can they possibly be saved to wincmd.ini by TC like this?

[Aezay]

I think they define the config of the buttons in the "Show" groupbox

[Guillaume]

I think they define the config of the buttons in the "Show" groupbox

But these buttons were all selected, so that wouldn't be the problem. I tried unticking all and restart TC, then re-ticking them. But it wouldn't help. Only removing these values from the ini-file solved the problem.

[Hacker]

Guillaume,
Form TC's Help file:

SyncButtons=63 This saves the state of the buttons in "synchronize dirs". It's the sum of:
1: Left to right
2: Equal files
4: Not equal files
8: Right to left
16: Duplicates (present on both sides)
32: Single files (present on only one side)

SyncFlags=1 Remembers the last settings for 'Synchronize dirs'. The following constants are added:
1: include subdirs
2: compare by content
4: ignore date of files
8: asymmetric mode

Maybe your wincmd.ini was somehow write-protected for TC?

HTH
Roman

[Guillaume]

No, my wincmd.ini file wasn't write-protected. Very strange that both of the values I had have no meaning at all. How come TC wrote an illegal value to its ini-file?

Currently, the values are set this way (TC automatically wrote these values to wincmd.ini):

SyncFlags=7
SyncButtons=50

How come?

[Hacker]

Well, if you read my post or TC's help file carefully, you will see,

"This saves the state of the buttons in "synchronize dirs". It's the sum of:"

and

"SyncFlags=1 Remembers the last settings for 'Synchronize dirs'. The following constants are added:".

So SyncFlags=7 means the flags 1 (include subdirs), 2 (compare by content) and 4 (ignore date of files) are set.
SyncButtons=50 means single files (32), duplicates (16) and equal files (2) are shown.

HTH
Roman

[Guillaume]

I'm sorry, I didn't read your careful enough. Funny though, I never touched the 'Duplicates'/'Single files' buttons (they were always on), but somehow 'Single files' was disabled:

1: Left to right
2: Equal files
4: Not equal files
8: Right to left
16: Duplicates (present on both sides) +
31

Thanks, hope it doesn't spontaneously occur again, but at least I now know exactly what to look at