sync toy over-reaction to clocks changing

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rconnors@its.leeds.ac.uk - 31 Oct 2005 19:05 GMT

I've been using sync toy for a week or so. The clocks changed in the UK
over the weekend (so my system clock automatically changed itself) and
now when I try to sync with my USB memory stick, sync toy says
EVERYTHING needs to be updated.
In principle it is unlikely that the 1 hour discrepancy will mean I
mess up anything, but it is a bit unnerving trying to sift through the
huge list of files about to be changed to check no unwanted actions
will occur.

Anyone else had the same experience?

Cheers,
rc

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ReynaM - 31 Oct 2005 22:13 GMT

Hi,

This is a known (recently discovered) issue with SyncToy. It impacts
FAT-NTFS folder pairs, since FAT and NTFS store different types of timestamps
(FAT stores local time while NTFS uses UTC). We are looking into it now.

Thanks,

ReynaM - Microsoft

> I've been using sync toy for a week or so. The clocks changed in the UK
> over the weekend (so my system clock automatically changed itself) and
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> Cheers,
> rc

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rc - 31 Oct 2005 23:22 GMT

Thanks for the quick response.
I am using my memory stick to carry files between home and work
computers; I change and update things at each end. However, I only use
Sync Toy at home.
This is probably a stupid question, but I guess the issue is that my pc
is NTFS at home and the pc at work is FAT (or vice versa) and this is
not something I can deal with by reformatting my memory stick?

Look forward to any solution you can suggest.
Thanks again,
rc

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