Re: StepSync issue

Hi Patrick

thanks for reporting. I consider StepSync almost ready for release and 
your report worries me, loss of data is always worrying.
Also, StepSync uses Foundation file operations, so if a bug comes form 
there, it is even worse.

Patrick Cardona wrote:


>
> Info Panel says: 0.1 release.
>
> How it was fetched:
> svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/gap/trunk/system-apps/StepSync

that is strange, for me info panel says 1.1


>
> 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

the output looks correct: nothing is missing and the only file changed 
is in target, so analysis looks "correct".
The log is easier to look at in the App itself, isn't it for you?

I reproduced exact your case. (just different file names).
I chanced one character in filec, my log window says:

----------------------------------------------------------
Files which are modified more recently Target than Source:
----------------------------------------------------------
A/B/C/filec.txt
Count: 1
Size: 8 Bytes

I do run update and the file disappears.

source/
`-- A
 б═б═б═ |-- B
 б═б═б═ |б═б═ |-- C
 б═б═б═ |б═б═ `-- fileb.txt
 б═б═б═ `-- filea.txt


Bug reproduced.

I check the code. Substitution is done by deleting first and then 
copying. Same code for source->target as target->source.
It could be done safer in theory by copying, deleting, renaming, but 
occupying more space and I started StepSync with big files, so space was 
important. But if the code works in one direction, I don't understand 
why it doesn't in the other!




Riccardo