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[Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Oliver,

Syncany stores file on the remote FTP in the form of (a) chunks and (b)
metadata.

a) The chunks contain the actual content of files. So an mp3-file, for
instance, could be distributed over many chunks (filename pattern:
chunk-CHUNKID).
b) The metadata contains a list of files/folders and
filename/chunk-mappings -- so the connection between the chunks and the
actual names of the files and folders.

In your example, you were talking about folders: folders do not have any
content (similar to 0-byte files). So there are no chunks for a folder,
only metadata. If you delete an empty folder, the only thing being updated
is the metadata.

I hope that helps you understand it a bit ...

Cheers
Philipp

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:57 AM, bionicman Bionicman <
bionicman4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Sorry fo my stupid question, but I quickly looked the code of syncany, and
> i don't understand how you delete folders in the remote ftp folder  (ex :
> if I have two folders, one in local and one in my ftp,  my local folder
> contain two folders. I synchronize my folders, so my remote folder contains
> now the two folders who was in my local folder. Now if I delete one of my
> two local folder how syncany delete this folder in my ftp?)
>
> Thanks for your answer
> Olivier.
>
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