Can I do this with Super Flexible?

[Wolters]

Hi,

I have a game on my computer which saves the current game files into a folder. However I can only save the game "as it is right now", NOT make several version so that I can roll back to an earlier point. So I thought that maybe I could do this with SFFS??

So what I would like to do is to copy the whole folder containing all the game files, say every ten minutes or so from my C-drive (where the game files are stored) to a backup folder on my D-drive. This much I have figured out how to make it work!

However what I would really like to do is to make multiple versions of that folder with the game files.

Ideally I will then have a new folder on the D-drive with all the files reflecting the game progress at that very moment. Then ten minutes later, SFFS makes a new folder on the D-drive and name it something like SAVED GAME+timestamp and copies all the files from the game folder on the C-drive into the newly created folder. Ten minutes later a new folder and so forth...

Is this doable?

Regards,

Dag

[superflexible]

Hello,

yes. On the Folders tab sheet, you can choose "On the Right Side, Create a New Folder Each Time" and also "Include Time Of Day".

All folders will be kept, so if you run our of space you need to clean up manually.

[Wolters]

Thanks a lot for that!

Well I guess that this mean that I have a future feature request! That is an option to delete older folders and their content after a specified number of new folders created or after a certain amount of time, or when the new folders have occupied a certain amount of disc space, etc...

Thanks once again!

[Wolters]

I just would like to come back once more to this issue.

As I am making a copy of a folder on the left hand side to a "Backup folder" on the right hand side, every ten minutes with a new name on the copied folder (with versioning and timestamp), I do get a lot of folders after a while.

As I have understood this, there is no option to have Super Flexible File Synchronizer to keep, for example, only the 10 most recent folders that it has copied. And nor can I use the "Move files to Destination"-option and with a file age & size-filter, move the whole folder to the trash????

But if these two options are not yet implemented in SFFS, do you have any other suggestions as to how to regularly delete all subfolders older than five days from within one folder, for example???

[superflexible]

No. This is not the intended use of the software (yet).

The recommended way to keep backups with older versions of files is to back up to the same destination folder always, rather than a new folder each time. Then you specify the number of older versions to keep on the Versioning tab sheet.

[Wolters]

Thanks,

In my case all the necessary files is sitting in this particular folder. Some of the files will change, some others might not, depending on the circumstances.

So backing up the whole folder every ten minutes or so, makes most sense in this case.

Therefore it would have been perfect if under "Masks & Filters", there would be a new tab called something like "Folder age & Size", and where you could set that if the folders on the left hand side were older than x (for exammple), they would be moved by the "Move files to destination-command" to the trash... Maybe something for Tobias to concider in a future upgrade?