This solution sounds exactly what I was looking for.

I've only recently started using ECMerge and in general it can do all
the things I need, but I do find knowing how to do them is not
obvious. It would be great to improve the help by having screenshots
explaining what the toolbar buttons do, and some simple examples of
steps and actions needed to achieve tasks.

The help only seems to have more complex examples.

For me, I would appreciate some help on the following Use Case :-

- I work from home sometime, so I need to synchronise a number of
folders to a portable drive

- when I start working at home I would like to do a 'preview'
synchronize just to check there are no changes on both sides. If
there isn't I want to request a mirror copy from external drive to
home Mac

- Then before going to work the next day I want to do exactly the same
but going the other direction Mac to External drive.
etc. etc

The preview synchronise is important to me (as Step 1) as sometimes I
might have made changes on both sides (home and work) and
inadvertently forgotten to mirror copy before starting work. So I
would see them, and need to open up a compare each to perhaps merge
changes from both sides (or choose which to retain)

Step 2 is then actually running the Mirror Copy. I also need to be
able to change the direction of the mirror copy.

If you could explain how to achieve the above with ECMerge as a step
by step guide, I would gladly purchase the product.

thanks
Pete


--- In elliecomputing_group@yahoogroups.com, "elliecomputing"
<elliecomputing@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> we've been recently asked for an easier way to do mirroring with
> ECMerge.
>
> Currently there are three ways, depending on how you expect to work:
>
> * Select in the folder comparison options/2-way rules, the "Mirror
> Left" or "Mirror Right" options, this is useful if you expect to only do
> that kind of operation (because that option will be reused next time)
> * Use the "Apply merge rules" in Folder Merge mode, and select
> "Mirror left" or "Mirror right", it sets the mirror action on the
> selected items, you can thus check what will be done, before clicking
> "Write Results"
> * Use the generic copy box, selecting the right direction and then
> the Mirror action
>
> The idea here would be to provide a new button (through scripting) which
> would do that:
>
> * Propose two menu items: "Mirror left to right" and "Mirror
right to
> left"
> * if the current view is not yet in merge mode, it would swap it to
> merge mode
> * it would use the Apply Merge Rule box underlying action
> (FolderDocument.resolve)
> * it would then show a box asking if you want to review first or
> apply immediately
> * if you want to apply immediately, it would run the 'Write merge
> results' command (FolderDocument.merge)
>
> Any comment?
> We'll provide that in the next days ;)
>
> The Ellié Team
>
>
>
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