Re: StepSync issue

On 2025-10-15 01:31:11 +0200 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Patrick Cardona wrote:
>> Hello,
> 
>> Testing a simple case with StepSync, I found the following issue:
> 
> What version are you using? release? current svn?
> It scares me, I trust StepSync quite a bit nowadays and I synchronize half a 
> terabyte of precious data with ease.
> 
> Current SVN head is close to release actually, so if there is a bug, high 
> alert. I consider it stable.

Info Panel says: 0.1 release.

How it was fetched:
svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/gap/trunk/system-apps/StepSync


> 
>> How to reproduce:
> 
> 
>> 3) Now, edit and modify the content of ficC.txt
>> Enable option '[x] Update Source' in StepSync
>> Sync again:
>> The file ficC.txt should be updated in SRC hierarchy, but:
> 
> do you edit the content in source or target?

ficC.txt is modified on target because I want to test the option: 'Update source' enabled.

> 
> 
>> patrick@pi400:~/SOURCES $ tree SRC
>> SRC
>> └── A
>>       ├── B
>>       │   ├── C
>>       │   └── ficB.txt
>>       └── ficA.txt
> 
>> It has been deleted: so not the action expected.
> 
> No, this is extremely unexpected - given the sensitivity, StepSync is 
> programmed to delete *only* missing things. So essentially if you do not flag 
> "Delete items" it shouldn't delete anything.

I confirm "Delete items" option is disabled.

> Update Source instead means to mirror things from target to source, otherwise 
> actions are performed exclusively on target.
> 
> Did you inspect the output in the log? what does it say about ficC.txt?

Therie is the complet log of "Analyze" action performed before "Synchronize":

patrick@pi400:~/SOURCES $ openapp StepSync
2025-10-15 13:03:07.518 StepSync[10640:10753] autorelease called without pool for object (0x55aab243f0) of class NSUserDefaults in thread <NSThread: 0x55ab1706f0>{name = (null), num = 10753}
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] target missing dirs: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] source missing dirs: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] target missing: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] source missing: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] target modified: ("A/B/C/ficC.txt")
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] source modified: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.530 StepSync[10640:10753] size differing files with same date: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.531 StepSync[10640:10753] date differing files with same size: ()
2025-10-15 13:03:07.537 StepSync[10640:10753] source free 86125.764608 MBytes, target free 86125.764608 MBytes

Hope it can be useful.
Patrick


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