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Using Servant Salamander 2.5 RC 2 I'm missingjust one functionality, the one to syncronize Directories and entire sirectory structures. As a former Total Commander user I got used to this handy feature. Are you planning to build this in into the final version?

The Synchronize Directories command is on our roadmap: http://www.altap.cz/salam_en/newver.html#roadmap

I use TreeComp for this issue (There's a portable version availabe: 'TreeCompNoInstall.zip, 699KB')

Knut, thanks for the hint about Tree Comp does what I want, however I hope the layout in Servant Salamander will be more professional.

This is a feature request related to both synchronization (already on the map) and ssh/WinScp (which plays nice with Linux). I regularly use Salamander to move files between my Windows and Linux machines. When the files are very large, any hiccup in the transfer process means the transfer has to start over. If you're moving lots of files, then directory synchronization is helpful -- pick only the files that haven't fully been copied yet, and copy them. But when you're copying large files, then using something like rsync can be very helpful.

The rsync utility and protocol is fairly sophisticated about what portions of a file have been changed, and is very quick to detect changes in directories containing large numbers of files. It can use ssh as the underlying protocol, and so will work nicely with Linux.

Perhaps you could use the very stable rsync code as a starting point for implementing directory synchronization in Salamander.

Bart Brashers