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UWA week 40 (2nd semester, week 10) ↓

2nd project What to do with files/folders that don't have a matching 'pair' (both)

4:12am Sat 7th Oct, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> If we were to synchronise files between multiple 'root' directories and encountered folder(s) and/or file(s) that existed in some of the 'root' directories but not all of them, what would we do?

The goal of the project is to ensure that two or more directories each have the latest copy of the same files. If you find a file that exists below one top-level directory, but not others, then it'll need copying to those other directories.

> I assume we'd have to copy all the(se) folder(s) and/or file(s) such that they'll result in having a copy of the newest version of each in all the corresponding places in all 'root' directories.

Yes.