General

The General page of the Profile Properties dialog box is used to specify general options for the profile. Contents of this page depends on the synchronization type of the profile.

Common Options

Prompt to delete unmatched files - check this box if you want to confirm file deletions during synchronization.

Try to process "In Use" files - check this box to let SmartSync Pro try to copy files that are currently in use by other programs by means of advanced locking techniques. If the program that is currently using the file cannot handle this kind of locking mechanism, it may generate errors. Use this option with caution!

Prompt to resolve file conflicts manually - check this box if you want to handle file conflicts manually.

Default Action

 Choose the default action for resolving file conflicts.

Span files across multiple removable disks - If you copy/compress files to a disk, and the disk is too small SmartSync Pro will prompt you to insert new disk to continue operation.

File Versions (available for Copy source to destination, Move source to destination, Synchronize source and destination and Remote Synchronization only)

Keep last xxx versions files - SmartSync Pro allows you to preserve old versions of files in a special folder. To restore previous versions of files select the profile, open local popup menu and select "Restore Previous Versions" item. The Restore Files dialog box will be opened.

Keep files in folder - specified number of previous versions of file are stored in a given folder.

Maximum folder size - you can limit the total size of the folder to prevent disk overload.

Delete... - click this button to delete all files in the folder specified above. Be careful using this function!

Compression Options (available for Compress source into a single ZIP file, Incremental Backup and Remote Synchronization only)

Compression Ratio - Specify the compression ratio to compress files. The default is set to the optimum value.

Encryption - click this button to protect your compressed backups using the latest encryption techniques.

Do not encrypt - creates unprotected backups.

PKZip 2.0 compatible - creates password protected ZIP archives, compatible with PKZip 2.0 and built-in Windows zip browser (XP or later).

AES (Strong encryption) - encrypt your data using U.S. government-certified Advanced Encryption Standard (AES 256-bit) encryption security.

Password - specify a password to access encrypted files.

Retype Password - retype the password for verification.

Backup Options (available for Incremental Backup only)

Restart Full Backup - Restarts full backup at specified period. If you choose to restart every week then every 7 days a full backup will be accomplished, between these 2 dates jobs will be done as incremental.

Next Full Backup - shows you the date of the next full backup. You may correct this date manually.

Delete all former backup files - The delete option lets you eliminate all previous jobs (including former full backup).

Remote file list - Specifies how to get remote file list to compare with:

Keep file list locally - SmartSync Pro keeps a local copy of remote file list. Use this option if you are sure that all former backups are available.

Get file list from the latest full backup - the program scans all backup files starting with the latest full backup to get the file list. This option is used by default.

Get file list from all backup files - the program scans all available backup files to get the file list.