SyncFolder — Desktop User Guide
Advanced Task Settings
The Advanced Task Settings dialog gives you fine-grained control over how a task behaves beyond the basic name, location, copy method, and schedule. Open it from the Advanced task settings link near the top of the task edit page. The dialog is organized into the sections below, each covered in its own guide page.
Sections
Foundational options that control how SyncFolder scans the destination, handles empty folders, and treats Windows reparse points such as symbolic links and junctions.
Controls how SyncFolder detects changes, handles conflicts, manages deletions, and stores removed items.
Controls how much of the available system resources SyncFolder uses during a task run, and whether write operations to the destination are rate-limited.
Lets you automatically keep up to 10 previous versions of specific files every time a sync runs, using glob patterns to decide which files to track.
Lets you attach automated steps to a task — before the sync begins and after it finishes — to prepare the environment, chain tasks together, or run custom scripts.
Controls how SyncFolder responds when a task's configured removable storage device — typically a USB drive or SD card — is not connected when the task runs.
Last updated: June 19, 2026