FreeFileSync ForumThe official discussion platform for FreeFileSync2024-03-19T08:14:30+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/app.php/feed/topics2024-03-19T08:14:30+00:002024-03-19T08:14:30+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42973#p42973https://kdrive.adrienroque.com/app/share/394565/26e0b0c7-7b6d-404a-baa9-17935af4edd2 Could you give me an idea of where the problem might be coming from? I've also seen that there's a bug with cloud services when file names contain spaces. Is this true? Do I have to rename my entire database?
]]>2024-03-19T05:21:29+00:002024-03-19T05:21:29+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42972#p42972The folder today is updated by another user (add some subfolder into it), but ffs cannot load those new added folders. I've tried deleted the folder shortcut on google drive and re-add to another location again, but still not working. Is there anyway to load the most updated status of a "shared with me" folder?
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]]>2024-03-18T09:59:06+00:002024-03-18T09:59:06+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42957#p42957 I'm a new user of FreeFileSync and I was wondering if it's possible to synchronize files according to their creation date. I'm looking to set up real-time synchronization, but for safety measures in case of interruptions, I'd like the program to synchronize files in the order of their creation. Is this feature already implemented in FreeFileSync, or is it currently not possible?
Thank you for your responses. Have a great day!
]]>2024-03-17T19:15:38+00:002024-03-17T19:15:38+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42948#p42948The error: Cannot read directory "ftp://username@IPaddress".
CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED: Server denied you to change to the given directory 550 %%RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error: / [curl_easy_perform]
So when setting up an FTP connection, the directory folder automatically fills in the directory filed with a "/". Is there a way to prevent that from happening? Normally, if this is done manually, we just open the FTP through Windows explorer, enter username and password, and then we transfer files to that directory that opens up. We do not change or go into any other folders. So if I can get that to do the same thing in FreeFileSync, then everything would work perfectly.
Any suggestions are welcome. I have been struggling with this for a while now.
]]>2024-03-17T16:35:30+00:002024-03-17T16:35:30+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42942#p42942So, I created this line in crontab, to open the interface hourly, but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
0 * * * * env DISPLAY=:1 /opt/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync
]]>2024-03-17T12:16:16+00:002024-03-17T12:16:16+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42930#p42930extra metadata is added to the file. You can watch it in OneDrive - file uploads to OneDrive and then almost immediately downloads. The downloaded file has a different file size but identical timestamp. The contents are obviously different as well.
What this means is that if you run FreeFileSync again with file time and size as the compare option, it wants to re-copy most Office files. The issue can be seen in this screenshot:
It's only Office files that are affected. PDFs, JPEGs etc are fine. Now one can argue until the cows come home that OneDrive shouldn't be altering files like this. None of the other cloud services I've used do this. But you'd be banging your head against the wall.
The fix with robocopy is easy - /xc to ignore changed files. A changed file in robocopy is classed as one where it exists on source & target, has the same time stamp but different file sizes.
So it would be really cool if FreeFileSync you add File time alone to the compare options.
]]>2024-03-17T08:17:02+00:002024-03-17T08:17:02+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42929#p42929 But sometimes one doesn’t have write-access to the source folder, and this entire feature becomes unavailable.
Please make it possible to put the source - sync.ffs_db file elsewhere. Other people have asked for this in the past multiple times, but they were always dismissed. So people keep asking for it.
An easy fix would be to overrule the default file location in the ‘synchronization local settings’ tab under ‘Use database file to detect changes’. If one could provide an alternative location there, it would be fixed and it would take minimal development efforts to do so.
N.B. I am a donating user. I don’t know if it is important to mention that for support reasons…
]]>2024-03-17T06:43:19+00:002024-03-17T06:43:19+00:00https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42928#p42928 I am quite a new user, probably a stupid question, I have a real-time sync set up that performs a mirror of my local computer C:\ Drive Documents folder on a to a NAS, I would like to understand in the event when this real-time sync runs not all the folders in the source directory can be seen (say a local C:\ drive folder corruption) what prevents FreeFileSync from assuming those files have been deleted and therefore deleting them on my NAS also thereby losing the data?