How does ST deal with folder timestamps?

Support
1

Hi,

It seems I did not properly mirror my large repo by hand, and now syncing them remotely with winscp is not preserving folders’ timestamps, so I will end up with a slave having “newer” folders with “same-date” files…

What will Syncthing do in that scenario? Will it sync timstamps, transfer the whole lot or something else?

Thanks in advance! MadOp.

2

If “timestamp of folder” and “Directory Modification Times” are same thing, then FAQ should help. From things that are and are not synced i understand that it will check if folders has been changed, then if files has been changed and then do nothing. Otherwise i don’t know what timestamp really means or i have fake idea how checking for changes work, so feel free to correct me.

3

What we check for: Symlinks: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/blob/master/internal/scanner/walk.go#L192 Directories: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/blob/master/internal/scanner/walk.go#L224 Files: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/blob/master/internal/scanner/walk.go#L259

TL;DR For dirs, we only care if it exists or not and has the right permissions (subject they are not ignored), for files we care about mtimes.

4

Good, I will go forward with this then.

Thanks a ton to both of you, it´s great to see such a helpful forum!

You help is much appreciated. Regards.