This section let you choose the default rules to apply when merging two directories. You can choose to mirror left or right version (which will disable all the controls in this window) or to apply specific rules. You can also select remove the item, this option will remove all the items (those which are neither modified by hand to something else nor ignored).
When left or right version exists but the other one is missing, you can:
When both versions exist, and are different, you can:
When both versions exist and are identical, you can:
When the item is missing from the left and right views, but present in the result folder, you can:
Defining merge rules
may be useful when synchronizing the same folders frequently.
You can create a Status file with all the
parameters for the synchronization (file patterns to
exclude/include, do not treat files older than a given
date...). Each time you re-open the comparison with the Status
file, all your options will be restored. You can modify them
with the
Document
options toolbar button, and save the Status file. The
more rules you can specify in this panel, the
more decisions Ellié Computing Merge will take to
merge files (respecting the given rules). Therefore you will
have much less files to merge manually.
All the decisions
the software will take will not be applied immediately. You may
check them in the "Result" and "Remaining actions" columns in
the bottom view of the Folders Comparison document, before
applying them (Merge result / Write in the contextual
menu applied on the selected items, or the
Write to result toolbar button).
See also