New to Toucan, am I doing something wrong??

Thanks for the quick reply.

When I had read the help earlier, it said this about "update"

Update - This is similar to copy, except it only overwrites older files

So I tried it out, in preview mode, and it seemed to highlight and create not only files that do not exist in the target folder, but it would also copy newer versions of files from the source folder to the target folder.

However there are a couple of problems with that:
1. It's not a hard rule that I want to update the older files with a newer version. The timestamp of the newer file may seem to indicate it's a new file, but it may not be, depending on when my newer folder was created and copied from elsewhere or downloaded online.

An example of this is: I download files from iTunes, it's in a back up drive / folder. While on the road away from home, I realize I don't have some of my iTunes music, and re-download the music, which will have a newer timestamp. Back at home, I don't want to copy the newer files over to the back up folder, and spend the time waiting for the back up to complete. In this case if the file exists in the target folder, I want Toucan to ignore it and only copy files that don't exist in the target folder

2. Update mode seem to mark certain files that are virtually identical in time as older in the target folder, and want to overwrite them with files from the source folder.

An example of is - I have an extract of Office 2003 on my back up folder, with the exact same time stamp as the Office 2003 source folder. Yet Update mode marks the back up as if it's an older version and will copy it / overwrite again.

I don't know if there can be a tolerance set to not copy files within "2 minutes" of each other. I theorize that occassionally Windows copies files with a slightly different timestamp. For example, source file may have "2/20/09, 9:55:50am" (50 seconds) , while target file may have time stamp "2/20/09, 9:55:55am" (55 seconds). I don't why Windows does this but I have seen it time and again. In this case I want Toucan to ignore files that are identical except for a time difference within a few seconds / minutes.

Again I hope I have misunderstood the software, otherwise the application is not very useful to me.

In the interim, I am using PathSync, which is portable and free, allows for more manual control, to do my back up / syncs. But I like Toucan's interface better, so I hope I can get this application to work in the way I think it should work.

Thanks again.

PS - I also would like to have an option under copy to "ignore files that already exist in the target folder, so as to avoid system resources when copying from source folder". A blind copy of all files really is no better than just using Windows Explorer copy command to copy files over, and would seem to defeat the point of using Toucan.