{"id":177,"date":"2018-02-16T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.ronella.xyz\/apps\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2018-07-18T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T02:48:13","slug":"make-the-target-folder-always-in-sync-from-the-source-folder-using-beyond-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Make the Target Folder always in-sync from the Source Folder using Beyond Compare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Create a folder compare<\/strong> session with beyond compare<\/strong>\u00a0like the following:
    \n\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Save the session with a file name without any special characters (e.g. < or >)<\/em> or spaces (i.e. necessary not to confuse the scheduler)<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. Save the following beyond compare script<\/strong> to right-updater.bc<\/strong> file.\n
    #Write to right-updater.log\r\nlog normal \"right-updater.log\"\r\n\r\n#Load a folder compare session.\r\nload \"%1\"\r\n\r\n#Confirmation will be set to yes by default. \r\noption confirm:yes-to-all\r\n\r\n#Make the right equals to the left of the loaded folder from the session.\r\nsync mirror:left->right<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  4. Save the following powershell script<\/strong> to bcrunner.ps1<\/strong> file along the side right-updater.bc<\/strong> file.\n
    #expects 2 command line parameters\r\nparam([string]$script, [string]$session)\r\n\r\n#The beyond compare command to be used.\r\n$cmd=\"C:\\Program Files\\Beyond Compare 4\\BComp.com\"\r\n\r\n#Holds the session argument for the beyond compare command.\r\n$args=\"\"\"$session\"\"\"\r\n\r\n#Write on screen the actual command to be executed.\r\nwrite-output \"$cmd \/silent @$script $args\"\r\n\r\n#Perform the command.\r\n&$cmd \/silent @$script $args<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Schedule using windows task scheduler<\/strong> and on the actions tab<\/strong> fill in the following fields like:
    \n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Action<\/td>\nStart a program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Program\/script<\/td>\npowershell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Add arguments(optional)<\/td>\n.\/bcrunner.ps1 right-updater.bc <SAVED_SESSION_FROM_STEP_2><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Start in (optional)<\/td>\n<DIRECTORY_OF_BCRUNNER.PS1_FILE_FROM_STEP_4><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
    Note: Fill-in the other tabs of the scheduler accordingly.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Create a folder compare session with beyond compare\u00a0like the following: Save the session with a file name without any special characters (e.g. < or >) or spaces (i.e. necessary not to confuse the scheduler). Save the following beyond compare script to right-updater.bc file. #Write to right-updater.log log normal “right-updater.log” #Load a folder compare session. load […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18,28,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}