What is folder comparing?
Although OsaSync’s mechanism to detect and sync changes is very robust it is still possible that some changes are not correctly ‘seen’, especially in email folders or in the Calendar folder. Email folders: If emails are moved frequently by several users it is possible that a folder can go slightly out of sync if a move is ‘missed’. Calendar folder: There are two types of appointment items that pose a challenge to correct synchronization: birthdays and meetings. Both appointment types are created by Outlook itself. A birthday ‘appointment’ is created when you set a Contact’s birthday. A meeting is automatically created by Outlook in your Calendar when you accept a meeting invitation. If several people accept a meeting invitation OsaSync on all computers has to make sure that all Outlook generated meetings are detected as being the same meeting in order to prevent duplicate appointments. The folder compare process is added to OsaSync in order to find and correct these rare cases where so
