A boolean value indicating whether, during a folder synchronization, a folder should be processed even if this is deemed logically unnecessary by the synchronization algorithm.
If set to true, unnecessary folders are scanned for files to synchronize as normal. If set to false, the files in unnecessary folders are ignored completely by the algorithm.
'DeclarationPublic ProcessUnnecessaryFolders As Boolean
'UsageDim instance As SynchronizationOptions Dim value As Boolean value = instance.ProcessUnnecessaryFolders instance.ProcessUnnecessaryFolders = value
public bool ProcessUnnecessaryFolders
A folder can be deemed unnesessary to process when a combination of synchronization parameters and options are set to certain values. The combination is as follows:
Consider, when a master item is manually specified, synchronizations will only go one way, from the file in the master folder to the target folders, in every case. Now, combine that with deletions not being allowed and you have a situation where files in the target folders that don't already exist in the master folder will never be acted upon. And files that only exist in the target folders will, obviously, not be copied to the master folder nor be deleted. So the entire target folders can be considered unnecessary to be scanned on their own.
This is, however, something to consider. If the value of this field is false and target folders are deemed unnecessary, events related to the synchronization of files in these folders will not be triggered.
The default value of this field is true.
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