Copy Files to Time-stamped Folder

[JSL]

My Android phone (Galaxy S4) has all the photos in a single container.  If I try and set up a sync using "Copy to time-stamped folder", every time I run the sync I get everything transferred again each time I synch which is not what I expected.  I wanted to use this option to create a new folder for each day I upload new pics instead of having everything lumped together in a single folder on Skydrive or Google Drive.

What is the purpose of this option?

[JNavas]

On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:58:14 AM UTC-8, JSL wrote:

My Android phone (Galaxy S4) has all the photos in a single container.  If I try and set up a sync using "Copy to time-stamped folder", every time I run the sync I get everything transferred again each time I synch which is not what I expected.  I wanted to use this option to create a new folder for each day I upload new pics instead of having everything lumped together in a single folder on Skydrive or Google Drive.
What is the purpose of this option?

FolderSync Help:

Copy files to time-stamped folder: For one-way sync only. If enabled , this creates a time-stamped folder at target location, so all source files are synced every time into a new folder at target location.

The obvious use for this capability is to create complete backup versions of a folder (complete snapshots).
What you want could be done manually, by creating subfolders, and using the Sync sub-folders option.

[Anders Carlsen]

There is a option that have been on my todo list, that will probably make it in the next version, to only sync new/modified files from the source folder (compared to previous sync), with no replacing of missing remote files and no sync of deletions.

This option, used in conjunction with the timestamp folder option, will do what you want.

If used with ordinary one-way syncs, it will enable you to delete files in the target folder without them being synced again, unless the source file gets updated.

[GomezJr]

Absolutely second this!!

Had started to realize how BIG just a single one-way sync folder on my NAS share can get from my Nikon camera (w/Android). Saw the time-stamp folder feature and thought "perfect!". This allows Google's Picasa app to better handle its photo updates as well instead of trying to index at each launch the whole massive single folder of 1000s of photos  ... until I realized awhile after a holiday vacation that the NAS share got nearly full from massive re-uploads of the same pics over and over :-( And no, I definitely do NOT want to delete photos off the camera. Soon after the NAS flood I turned that option on ... and my wife keeps nearly having heart attacks when she goes back to view/verify the recent baby pics on the camera viewer days later.

So how soon do we see this "new files only" feature added??