To explain my subject line: Is it possible to automatically disable one or a group of profiles when a separate profile is run, then re-enable said disabled profiles when another separate profile (or group of profiles) is run? (Disabling and re-enabling of profiles is of course an SE feature)
For example:
* I have an HTPC (Home Theater PC) set up (or very close to being set up) with many files including some that must be updated separately.
* The content for the aforementioned is stored in backup on my portable hard drive, with the relatively fewer files that must be updated separately on a flash drive, which is very light and easy to carry, not especially fragile.
* When I want to update the backup with the content that is on my local hard drive, I use SyncBackSE (used to be Free)'s Mirror to copy and delete files to update the backup. (Is Intelligent Synchronization (SE) more efficient for this? Have not tried it.) (Also SE's multi-license for $39.95 is something that appeals to me greatly.)
* When I want to update the HTPC with the content that is now on my portable hard drive (won't happen too often as the drive is somewhat fragile to carry a lot), I have a profile for that purpose there, as well as several profiles in two groups to, upon insertion of the flash drive,
- First restore the newest versions of the files from the flash drive, if they have indeed been changed,
- Then back up those files that will be changed on the HTPC, to the flash drive.
These operations are configured to run quietly, with no interaction from me, such that my entertainment flow is not interrupted.
* What I noticed last time I performed the said update this morning was: The backup profiles, which are configured to sense changes in those relatively few files (SE feature!), activated and attempted to copy the files from the update (not the newest versions of the files) to the flash drive, which, because it wasn't connected at the time (serial number identification of drives, another SE feature!) did not work, and I was able to abort them. But that is not the desired behavior for my setup...
* What I want to do now, is I want to disable the backup profiles automatically when I run the main update profile, and keep them disabled until the Restore profiles are activated. Then when all of them are run, re-enable the backup profiles so they do not overwrite the newer versions of those files which must be updated separately, but are re-aligned with the files which were copied from the flash drive.
If this is confusing to anyone, I apologize. I'm starting maybe to think Intelligent Synchronization might be the way to go for my situation... Is this correct? And if so, is there a way to easily migrate the profiles from Mirror to Sync without having to delete and re-make them?
(To be clear as well: I can manually disable and re-enable the backup profiles as needed, but if there is a way to do it automatically without having to remember to, that'd be great.)
Thank you all for reading my super-long explanation of my problem. I hope that you all can help me, and I hope that I can grow to become a productive member of the community!
Take care, all.