Copy Method

This option enables you to specify the internal copy method used by AllSync for copying files.

Properties of the Various Copy Methods	A	B	C	D
Display the copy progress of a file	-			-
Resume an interrupted copy operation of a file	-	-		-
Cancel the copy operation of a file	-			-
Change the copying speed	-	-		-
Copy files and folders with Unicode characters in their name				?
Copying of file attributes				?
Copying of the Modified Date				?
Copying of the Creation Date	-	-		?
Copying of the Last Accessed Date	-	-		?
Copying of NTFS compression				?
Deactivate file system cache	-		-	?

Copy Method 'Automatic'

With this setting, copy method B is used.

Copy Method B

The Deactivate file system cache option copies files without using the Windows file system cache. This can speed up the copying process when copying large files in the gigabyte range.

Copy Method C

Upon starting the copy operation, the destination file is created with a modified date which is older than that of the source file. This ensures that AllSync automatically recopies the source file during the next copy operation in the event the link to the destination folder is interrupted. After the file is successfully copied, the create and modified date of the destination file is adapted to that of the source file. This copy method also enables you to specify the size of the data packets and the pause between data packets.

Copy Method D

With copy method D you can either use an external program to copy the source file or you can delete the source file:

Program for copying files
Here you specify the program with which a file is to be copied. The parameters for the external program must be specified in a separate text field. An error message is displayed in the log if the return value of the external program is not equal to zero. The following placeholders can be used when specifying the parameters:
- %1 = source file (example: C:\Data\Info.doc)
- %2 = destination file (example: D:\Backup\Data\Info.doc)
- %3 = destination folder (example: D:\Backup\Data)
Example of the Windows Xcopy command:
Program: Xcopy
Parameter: "%1" "%3" /h /r /y
Delete Source File
This option deletes the source file. With the sub-option Secure Delete the content of the source file is completely overwritten with zeros before deleting and the file size is set to 0 Bytes.

Options for Copy Method C and Content Comparison

The following two options are used with Copy Method C or the byte by byte comparison method:

Data packet

This setting enables you to specify in bytes the size of the data packets used to read from a file into main memory.

Pause

This setting enables you to specify the length of the pause in milliseconds between reading the individual data packets and thus decrease the transfer speed.