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[williamhdixon]

I'm running ICE Mirror v2.0 on Windows XP and Windows 7 (two different machines, obviously).

From the GUI, I can click the button labeled "Compare", and it will give me a list of files that are different or missing between the Master and Mirror directories. The help file doesn't tell how to do this from the command line, but the (only) example given shows ".... /APEND ....". I assumed that I could tell it ".... /COMPARE ....", but that seems to have done the same as doing a "full" mirror.

Background. I created a new file in the source/master directory. I then ran

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[williamhdixon]

I *have* started running it twice. I don't check everything every time (it's a quasi-unattended operation) so I don't know the specifics, but in some of the directories there are quite a few files missing. They seem to be at the bottom of the list, sometimes by filename sometimes by date. They could have been removed somehow else, I have no way of knowing.

I guess I'll have to come up with a way to count the number of files in source and target directories (and subdirectories), and raise an alert if they are different.

You really should consider adding the 'compare' option to command line mode. Besides the possibility of files just getting missed, there's always the possibility that a file may not be able to be copied because it's open or something. (If I have a file open in MS Word from the source directory, IceMirror cannot copy it.) Since the command line is used to automate the mirroring process, this would let people automate the process of making sure the two directories are in fact identical, and deal with it if they are not.

In fact, what I would love would be a command line option to compare the two directories, and indicate a pass/fail condition (exactly equal vs some differences) using either a return code or by displaying the results. Either way can be captured by a batch script (I use perl, but even *.bat files can do this), and the script can proceed as needed.

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If there are some missing file try to determine them. It's easy if you can see different number of files in directories.

There are some cases then ICE Mirror can not copy files. For example, ICE Mirror can not copy locked or corrupted files.