Author: admin
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Why do I get “Operation not permitted” when scanning ~/Library/Mail ?
If you select the ~/Library/Mail directory as a source (where ~ represents your home directory), the sync should run without issues. On the other hand, selecting one of its ancestors, like ~/Library, can cause scan errors. In general, selecting a directory in an open panel grants an app access to all subfiles and subdirectories, but…
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Why are the source contents copied but not the source folder itself?
SyncTime syncs the source with the destination. It does not sync the source with the file inside the destination that has the same name as the source; doing so would make it less flexible as it wouldn’t allow to sync files with different names. When the source is a directory, you can easily create one…
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Compare directories
Patchword can be used in different ways to compare directories and batch edit or rename files. When comparing two directories, the first one is referred to as the original directory and the second one as the modified one. Clicking on Compare starts a parallel scan of both directories. When the scan completes, the comparison is…
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Why am I getting a “Apple could not verify [file] is free of malware” alert?
You may get this alert when you try to open a file in the Finder after setting uFocus (or any other app) as the default app via File > Open With > Other…, then select uFocus and enable the option Always Open With. This may be (according to an Apple engineer on the Developer Forums)…
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Why do I get permission errors when unzipping while syncing in background?
Files extracted from an archive have particular permissions that prevent SyncTime from accessing them before the process has completed. Only when the process has completed SyncTime is able to access the extracted files without errors. There are some workarounds: