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Previewing Proposed Actions

Particularly when you’ve just set up a script, or anytime you’re unsure about what Synk is going to want to change in your locations, you can select the Preview Proposed Actions checkbox in the dark gray control bar at the bottom of the Synk window.

While this option is selected, Synk won’t make any changes to the contents of your locations without your approval. When Synk has found a change it would like to make, the script’s status changes to “Actions awaiting approval,” and the proposed actions appear in the file list for the script.

Selecting one of the files in the list shows details about the item and its various copies in the left detail pane, and a description of the situation and what your options are in the right help pane.

If you agree with the proposed action, click the “checkmark” button on the item’s row to approve the action. If you want Synk to take a different action, select that action from the pop-up menu on the item’s row.

If you scan all of the files shown and agree with all of their actions, you can approve them all at once by choosing “Approve All” from the action pop-up menu in the right side of the filter bar.

Side note: Folder approval

Sometimes users are surprised that approving a folder doesn't mean that everything inside is copied without approval. Approving the creation of a folder does just that, at which point Synk can now go into the folder's contents to scan and act on any contents therein, and you can approve those actions accordingly.

If you think about it for a moment, it has to happen in this order. There's absolutely nothing that Synk can do to any of the children until the folder itself is handled. If it showed a child and you approved a copy, it would immediately fail because no folder existed to copy it into!

Also, remember that Synk works live and handles files as it goes, so it has no idea what's inside a folder, and that folder's contents can change at any time. If approving a folder approved everything inside, does that include any changes that happened while the copying is going on? How would it know whether the stuff it was about to copy was what you expected it to be, when it could have changed in the mean time? If you trusted Synk to just do the right thing with whatever data it came across, you wouldn't have Preview mode enabled, so it honors your wishes and lets you approve all actions it's about to take for safety.

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