Updating Files



Squeezer offers two actions for updating your archives: Update and Incremental Update. Squeezer stores the source paths of the files and directories added to the archives, so that it can find the source files later. As this feature has been added in Squeezer 2, archives created with version 1.0 of the application or created with other programs can't be used with the update actions as they do not contain these informations.

Update
The update action compares files and directories contained in the archive with the corresponding files and directories on your disks and synchronizes the archive:
  • if a file is present on disk and not in the archive it gets added
  • if a file is present in the archive but not on the disk, it gets deleted
  • if a file is present on both the disk and the archive, the action configured in the Replace files option will be applied
After the comparison operation is complete, the Apply changes action is automatically performed.

Incremental Update
The Incremental Update action compares files and directories contained in the archive with the corresponding files and directories on your disks and creates a new archive:
  • if a file is present on disk and not in the archive it gets added to the new archive
  • if a file is present in the archive but not on the disk, it's not added
  • if a file is present on both the disk and the archive, the action configured in the Replace files option will be applied
After the comparison operation is complete, the Apply changes action is automatically performed on the new archive.
The new archives created adopt the same name of the source archive with a progressively incremented number appended to it. You must always perform this action on the root archive and not on any of the archives created by Squeezer, otherwise more files than is necessary will be added.



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