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The initialization process for a File Synchronization job consists of the following steps:

1.All participating hosts are contacted to make sure they are online and properly configured.

2.Real-time event detection is initialized on all participating hosts where file locks and changes will be propagated in real-time to all participating hosts.  You can view real-time activity and history via the various Runtime views for the open job.

3.The initial synchronization process is started; all of the configured root folders on the participating hosts are scanned in the background, and a listing of all folders and files are sent back to the running job.

4.The background directory scan results are analyzed and directory structures compared to see which files are missing from which hosts.  In addition, file conflict resolution is performed to decide which copy to use as the master for any detected file conflicts based on the File Conflict Resolution settings.

5.After the analysis is performed, all files that need to be synchronized are copied to the pertinent host(s).