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Number   :  9383
Date     :  2004-11-29
Author   :  des4212001
Subject  :  Destination Exclusions Re-revisited
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Swapping the source & destination in 2 passes won't work. There are 
some orphans in each location unique to each installation. And there 
are identical paths containing some unique objects on each side, 
again depending on installation. This is something that sounds good 
until you try it!

Duplicating each location's orphans into their respective 
destinations is unacceptable to me. I'd rather miss deleting a 
destination object that doesn't exist in the source occationally. I 
mean, we are talking 1 item out of thousands, and then only very 
occasionally. But this then become a manual operation to keep up 
with.

It probably would be possible to peal each location down into a 
dozen invocations of xxcopy, twice now by having to reverse the 
sources & destinations thereby isolating each orphan occurance. But 
this would generate a monster kludge and present a real maintenance 
headache.

To reiterate, I find the inability to simply specify an exclusion in 
the destination a failing. And most espically in light of the most 
comprehensive (polite for far out!) file management capabilities. It 
just jumps out at me as a natural thing.

DES



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