Scripting ease

you are right, there are a couple in the helpfile at the moment but I hope to add more for the 3.1 release. Basically a script allows you to perform more complex operations than are allowed by default, for example running three syncs one after the other, or running a sync on weekdays and a backup at weekends.

will hopefully be a little more like a proper code editor. I am not sure what you mean by making it drag and drop though, do you have an example as to what you would like to be able to drag and drop?

if you are using anything compressed, e.g. a docx file then because they normally store a hash in the header you will be fine.

Just to be exact Toucan reads 1024 bytes from the start and the end of the file to try and maximise it's chances of finding such a header. Also if you change the contents in the middle of a file and this changes the files overall length, even by just a byte then it will be flagged up as different. The only case where it will fail to flag a difference is if you change a few characters in the middle of a file which don't change its length or any sort of header, for example the middle of a txt file. In this case the only way of ever finding the change would be to read the whole thing, so if you think this is a frequent occurrence in your workload then a full check is probably the best thing to do.

Personally I would suggest that doing a modified time check and a short check should catch virtually everything, but I don't have any hard numbers to back that claim up.