Synchronization between two installations

Sorry if this is FAQ, but I couldn't figure it out exactly from the help file.
My problem is this:
Let's say I have two installations of The Bat (one laptop "A", one desktop "B"). Let's say that I initially used installation A, and that it contains all my emails, address books, etc.
Then, I installed The Bat on installation B and I initially synchronized them (either by importing from A, or by doing initial synchronization, as described in the manual).

Now, let's say I'm working on installation B, and I download the email there, I write some emails, etc. Then, I want to synchronize them again, so that my installation A will contain the newly downloaded and sent messages.
To complicate things even further, let's say that in the meantime, I also wrote some emails on my installation A, so that both A and B are now different from my initial synchronization.

My question is: If I did the synchronization now, after all this changes on both A and B, will The Bat recognize the differences in them and update my Inbox and Sent folders on both installations, so that they will now contain messages I sent and received on both installations, before the previous synchronization?

Note to the guys from RitLabs: if this works that way, I'm buying second Pro license right away:)

Yep, a full sync means that messages created on A will be copied to B and messages created on B wil be copied to A.

The procedure goes as follows:
You create a sync file on setup A
That sync file will be compared with setup B, all messages missing on setup B will be copied to B, but also messages present on B and not present in the sync file will be copied to a second sync file.
That second sync file has to be processed by setup A and you've got two identical setups.

Note that when you delete a message from A and not from B and you sync afterwards, the message will be restored on A.

This was how it used to work, I haven't played with this function for ages and when I did it was merely for testing purposes only.

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Roelof Otten Guru Posts: 2963 Points: 5336 Rating: 60 Authority: 60 Joined: 19 September 2004	#2 0 23 February 2009 01:35:00 Yep, a full sync means that messages created on A will be copied to B and messages created on B wil be copied to A. The procedure goes as follows: You create a sync file on setup A That sync file will be compared with setup B, all messages missing on setup B will be copied to B, but also messages present on B and not present in the sync file will be copied to a second sync file. That second sync file has to be processed by setup A and you've got two identical setups. Note that when you delete a message from A and not from B and you sync afterwards, the message will be restored on A. This was how it used to work, I haven't played with this function for ages and when I did it was merely for testing purposes only. __________________________________ I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.