I'm wondering if anyone from the team that developed Sync Centre and felt it was ready for inclusion within the Windows 7 platform could answer a few simple questions. If nothing else so I can understand why we decided to take such a huge leap backwards from Windows XP sync, and what's in the pipeline to improve things. 1. My WHS box died recently and I went through the process of rebuilding. All data on the WHS box is sync'd with my media pc (Windows 7). At some point during the WHS rebuild, Sync Centre on my media PC noticed that all the shares on the WHS were now empty and decided, without any prompt whatsoever, to go ahead and delete its local sync files, about 480GB worth. Fortunately I had another backup copy. Must be the only sync software on the planet, including freeware, that would delete a local sync file, let alone 8 entire directories, without so much as a prompt to confirm with the user. How could this go thru release mgmt with such a glaring fault?2. I would imaging that most users, when clicking on a button that says 'Stop All', would assume that this action would stop all, and hopefully within a few minutes of clicking the button. Sync Centre appears to be different. It doesn't stop all at all, it just keeps going. Could the 'Stop All' button be updated to do something useful, like stopping all Sync's, right there and then, so I can use other apps? I've also noticed, despite not having an Sync Schedule set, that Sync Centre starts sync'ing post-login, all on its own, without any notice to the user, not even a swirly green icon, just my network bandwidth hammered until it decides it's done.3. Any chance of including a page that shows you what files are held locally, and what datestamp those files have, and how that compares with the offline copy. My girlfriend has this advanced functionality on her Windows XP Pro box, however it seems this was too useful to be included within Sync Centre. Seriously?Be awesome if someone could look at these flaws. Windows 7 is a real step forward in my book, and not just visually. But Sync Centre is for me the single most dissapointing 'improvement' on a Windows platform.Iain

Hi,There are settings to prevent such issues:Sometimes, Sync Center will prompt you to choose which version of a file to keep. This usually occurs when a file has changed in both locations since the last sync. When this happens, Sync Center will notify you of a sync conflict, which you must resolve before it can sync the items in conflict. In your cases, only the network location changed, the PC may consider that as the updated version.You can avoid this by one-way and two-way sync settings.In one-way sync, files are copied from a primary location to a secondary location, but no files are ever copied back to the primary location. In two-way sync, Sync Center copies files in both directions, keeping the two locations in sync with each other. Most sync partnerships are automatically set up to perform either one-way or two-way sync, although some sync partnerships let you choose. You might set up one-way sync for a portable music player, for example, where you instruct Sync Center to copy every new music file from your computer to the mobile device but never to copy music files in the other direction (from the device to your computer).