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Hi, so I read through the other posts regarding the synchronization / moving of tags and labels, but I didn't really understand those, especially regarding my particular setup.

So I'm having tons of files, mirrored on 2 different drives with the exact same folder structure, same files etc, with the exception of the Drive letter (being E:/, F:/ and G:/).

I'm editing those files on one drive, plugged into one computer and sometimes move that drive to the other computer in order to synchronize the drives. I use "FreeFileSync" to do this, which basically just synchronizes both drives folders and files based on the most recent changes. I put "Startup.ini" as an exception to the synchro, so the path for the APPDATA folder won't be changed (the appdata folder is located on the same drive as the installation folder), so thats working. Each drive has its own appdata folder and FreeFileSync just syncs them everytime.

The tags are also synchronized, but the problem is, that those tags are directed to the path of the drive on which they have been created, so the whole path is the same except the drive letter.

How could I fix this problem or maybe alter my synchronization process to have the tags (and labels) properly synchronized as well?

Thanks in advance

Offline synchronisation will only work correctly if the drive letters stay the same so use a tool like USBDLM (https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm.html) to always assign the same drive letters on both computers for these external drives

I dont think thats gonna work because for the sync to happen I need both drives connected at once

If I am understanding you correctly, and your XYDATA folder (which incl tags db) is saved to the external drives, then I think one possible solution would be to change this setting

Configuration | Information | Tags | Storage == Relative to tags database

then the tags won't get saved with a drive letter, instead they will always use the same drive letter the tags db is stored on when you load it (at startup usually).

Thanks, kinda solved it