Synchronizing a group of folders

This will initiate a communication request from the SuperSync client to the SuperSync server component.

You should have a valid network connection to connect to a remote machine within your organisation or over the Internet. If using the Internet to synchronize, I recommend you initiate a VPN connection to your organisation's network first. Otherwise, your system's and network admin have to open the SuperSync service port on the firewall to allow traffic to pass through.

SuperSync will compress any communication between the client and server to save bandwidth and get a faster response time from the server.

Once the server has inspected your file list, your history file, and the server file list, it will generate a list of actions which will be returned to the client. You can see this list in the SuperSync Action List.

At this stage, you can inspect the actions the client will perform to compete the synchronization process and modify them if necessary by unticking the check box to the left of the files and folders in the list.

Click Accept Changes to start the synchronization process by executing the actions in the list one by one.

This should open a progress dialog box that displays the progress of the synchronization process.

You can click on the Cancel button anytime during the process to stop the synchronization of the SuperSync folder.

When the synchronization process is complete, the server folder (right folder) should contain the same files and folders as the left folder (local folder).

Also, the right folder should now contain a hidden file with the extension ".supersync". This is your login's history file.

For example, on my machine, the previous run generated a file called "emile.supersync".

This file is in binary format and is not readable by humans. It contains a listing of your left folder's files and directories at the time of the last successful sync.

During synchronization, SuperSync creates temporary files that get renamed to the original filename when the content of the file is copied successfully. These temporary files have the extension ".temp.supersync".

Any file or folder that ends with the extension ".supersync", will not be synchronized.

If you have checked the Backup Deleted? option for a SuperSync folder, SuperSync will create a directory called "bakcup.supersync" which will contain the deleted files or folders. This directory is created on both the client and server machines.

Files and folders in this directory are cleaned up after the specific number of days have passed, as configured for the SuperSync folder pair.