Synchronize Directories action allows user to setup backups and maintaining exact data copies between local folders and remote directories (or multiple machines) by performing automated unidirectional (server to local machine, local machine to server) or bidirectional (synchronizing) data transfers.

Synchronize	Details
Local folder	A folder on the local machine whose contents will be synchronized.
Remote directory	A directory on a remote server whose contents will be synchronized.
Transfer	The direction of data transfer: Upload · Synchronize local changes to remote server · Copies data from local machine to remote server. When file on the local machine differs from file on the remote server, the file from the local machine will overwrite the file on a remote server. Download · Synchronize remote changes to local computer · Copies data from remote server to local machine. When file on the local machine differs from file with the same name on the remote server, the file from remote server will overwrite the file on local machine. Bidirectional · Synchronize changed files in both directions · Copies data both from remote server to local machine and from local machine to remote server so that both directories are the same. During bidirectional transfer, files with newer modified date will overwrite files with older date.
Use connection	Select connection to use for directory synchronization. If Task contains no connections, the new connection window will be opened to establish a connection to SFTP, FTP, Amazon S3 or WebDAV server.
Browse	Use Browse to select particular file or folder on local disk, network share on LAN (local area network), etc.
Variable Wizard	Use Variable Wizard for advanced data input, such as, taking parameter from file, associated Trigger or other Action, etc.

Notes

• Filenames with characters that are not valid in Windows file systems are automatically encoded using % hexadecimal representation.

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