Sync Pre existing data not synced before

[mzosama]

Hi,

Recently I have purchased the Sync Pro version to sync my office and personal laptop + mobiles with Portable WD hard drive. For this purpose, I installed the sync on a laptop (which I am not using it for a while) and WD 2TB portable hard drive is attached to it. Before syncing everything, I sync all the data of my devices using Allway Sync to ensure that all files in my devices are present in the portable hard drive attached to the laptop.

After doing this, I started to share the link from my devices to the laptop (which is specially used for Sync). Now my question is that why Sync is taking 3 to 5 days to sync my data with the devices when all the data is already there..What I see is showing "Sending-Indexing" or "Sending" with time to complete for 3 to 4 days. My total data is around 1TB.
 

Allway Sync analyzes everything in few mins and then sync the files very fast but Sync took ages to do the same thing...why..the only issue with Allway sync that it cannot sync files over the internet unless you have a external IP..

Can someone help me..Am I doing something wrong...

Apologizes for the bad grammer and English.

 

Cheers

mzosama

 

[RomanZ]

@mzosama I strongly suggest checking exact paths of folders you sync (you can just hover a mouse over folder and Sync will display the path). It is very common mistake that one starts syncing files not to a designated pre-filled folder, but into subfolder. For example, you want to sync C:\Docs\Engineering from PC A to PC B, and you get it synced to C:\Docs\Engineering\Engineering on PC B (which is obviously empty and will require full data re-transfer).

Also, please take a look at this article, it may help to properly configure folders.