Synchronizing Local and Remote Directories

To make the local side look exactly like the remote

  1. Connect to your FTP site.

  2. Click in the pane containing the remote FTP sever listing.

  3. Click Tools > Synchronize Folders. The synchronize direction shown in the prompt should be Download. Specify whether to include sub-folders and whether to ignore or consider dates when comparing files.

  1. Click OK.

To make the remote side look exactly like the local

  1. Connect to your FTP site.

  2. Click in the pane containing the local listing.

  3. Click Tools > Synchronize Folders. The synchronize direction shown in the resulting prompt should be Upload. Specify whether to include sub-folders and whether to ignore or consider dates when comparing files.

  4. Click OK

To synchronize local and remote directories

This option allows you copy to or from the FTP server only those files whose content differs from the ones on local/remote host. The following logic determines how the directories are synchronized:

When synchronization begins, the Visual Synchronization browser opens automatically showing what is being synchronized, and highlights any files that have differences.