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Scanning for Non-Live Changes

While the customizing of scanning for non-live changes is a Synk Pro-only feature, the explanation of the situation may be helpful if you use the standard version of Synk as well, to help understand how it works in certain situations.

Synk picks up most changes to your files as they happen. Specifically, any changes to the file that pass through the OS of the computer running Synk or the computer providing the SynkSharing location are immediately handled. However, when using network volumes connected to via standard file sharing, the remote system doesn’t send these notifications to file sharing clients. (This is one of several improvements that SynkSharing provides over ordinary file sharing.)

To pick up changes that are made on locations that don’t provide change notifications, Synk needs to periodically scan through the whole file structure comparing the file modification dates to locate items that have changed behind its back. Synk is reasonably efficient in doing this—it doesn’t rescan anything that’s been scanned recently in the normal course of events—but it’s most efficient to not do this scanning at all unless it’s actually needed.

Synk automatically handles enabling periodic scanning when a file sharing volume is set as a script location, but in Synk Pro you can override its decision.

To customize the periodic full scan interval: [PRO]

Set the interval in the “Scan everything for non-live changes” pop-up menu in the Options area of the script settings.

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