Man I get paranoid about synchronization programs for this very reason. There's usually some turnkey easy-mode enabled as soon as you first launch that's like:

"Hey you wanna back up your entire NAS to your phone?! That'll be fun, right?!"

And you're like "...No."

And then it wants to obliterate everything so it's all "synchronized", often it's not easy to find a "No, stop, don't do anything at all until I configure this." Option.

iTunes was SO BAD about this.

Syncthing is the least-bad sync software I've ever run. It's got some footguns but it's still brilliant.

I would imagine there's still ways to back up version controlled software right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

iTunes would stomp all over your hard drive, fucking up every MP3 file it could find, and then refuse to believe you could have one copy of a file. Either it's on your iPod and your computer, or it's getting dragged behind the woodshed.

Give me sync software that only ever increases redundancy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Hey man want this song?"

"Yeah sure just plug in my iPhone and drop it on there. Should be easy enough right?"

iTunes: "Oh howdy there! I see this is a different device than you usually plug in! Teehee.... I'MMA WIPE EVERYTHING AND REPLACE IT ON EITHER YOUR PHONE OR COMPUTER K?? **YOU MUST CHOOSE.

T̷̨̼͍͚͇̮̣̜͕͙̬͐͟Ḩ̴̧͚̩̝͔̻̰͇̤̰̂̾͡E̶̫̝̤͙̭̱͚͔̠̻̓̇͑̏̂̐̋̅̌̕͜ ̴̢̣̙̙̻̮̳̼̻̦̻̻͋̆͗B̵̨̨͉̼̳̜̟̘͛͆̌͑̅̊̄͑͐́͝͝ͅͅA̷̢͈̦̟͕̍̉͑̀̿̐̐̉̍̓̈́͡͝͠L̸̬͎̋͆̎͆̑̈́̈́́̃̚Ą̶̝͎͉̮̱͔̫̹̞͍̄̋N̵̝̤̭̜͚̹͚͒̒͆̃͜͝C̵̲͋̅̋́͆͒͊̎͝͠Ȅ̷̱͓̟͉̿ ̸̨̛̛̛̫̭̣̝̝̞͓̝̱̂̇̍M̶̮͎̭̻̺̲̻̫̳̖̠̦̮̅̐Ų̶̖̜̙̲͇͓̼͔̲̗̯̀̽̏̏͌͒̊́̏̓́̆̚͘͟͟ͅŚ̵̢̰̯͚̟̳͎̣̱̘̺̼̉͛͒̀̽̑͐̔͊̋̅̕T̴̨̖̺̳̣̮̜̪̝͊͑́̐̉͛͒̅́̓̈͟͟͠ ̸̧̡͎͍̯̣̖̯͆͗͒̇̈́̈́̽̽̑̂̾̚͝ͅB̵̛̲̥͔̹̓̌̅̆̾̒̈́͗̒͘̕͠Ȩ̵̠͖̩͓̮̤͕͓̳͍͋͂͗̓̎̄͛͂̏̒̂͆̾͜ ̶̢̨̻̘̭̜̹̥͈̼̖̓̈̍̉̉́͗͊́̕̕̕͜͟͜R̷̢̧̭̯̜͔̠̳̼̞̫͚̼͛͊̾͛̂̅̆Ě̵̲̹̟̺͂̉̑͡Ś̴͔͐̃͑͒̕͟Ţ̴̗̫͚̭͛̄͂͋O̸̡̘̩̜͇͉͖̜̭͂͂͗̉͑̋͗͐͡͝Ŗ̴̘͇̤̟͙͚̭̳̋̏̅̋̍̓̀̚͠E̷̛͉͍̰̻͛͐̀̈́͛̄͗͘͝͝ͅD̴͙̼̻̰̳͖̼̳̜̿̅̑̈́́̑͆͐̉̚͜ͅͅ!̵̜̖̈̆͑͛̃̿͒͊͜!̵̧͍͔̻̲̗̩̟̦̠̓̄͂͂̾́́̎͗͠͝͠**

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

And that's why I used a Winamp plugin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Any professional would have a code repository and probably a build server which spits out binaries left and right, off site of course.

Bonus points if that is the easiest way to deploy the software, so all developers actually use it.

Edit: typo

[–] UFODivebomb 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm fairly sure than attempting to initialize a new android phone and selecting to "restore" your Google account also runs into this. The sync gets confused and just starts deleting.