FreeFileSync Forum

Again: I can't use FreeFileSync, because of the stupid and wrong registration of ten different installations on ten different computers, which is only on one notebook. The maintainer doesn't care, because I reported the issue three years ago and ten days ago. OK, I'll spent some time to install and ...

Is there some way to have openSUSE not change network MAC addresses after each start? If not, I can refund your donation.


What about changing the time after which a device on which FreeFileSync seems to have been installed, can be removed? For me it would be no problem to remove every device ...

If you go to the link in the 'Thank you' email when you first donated, the page tells you how many devices the software is installed on. Click on this button and you get a list of the devices, and you can remove each one that is redundant. While this may not be the ultimate answer to your issue, I ...

Or simply trust me.


Ha That's rich, end users can never be trusted lol
Any suggestions on what other data could be collected to uniquely identify a device without being too intrusive to the end user?
Also "20XW0055GE" isn't unique, it's a product ID for the device model so thousands of people ...

I've asked a question about MAC addresses at forums.opensuse.org.

Maybe you can take more data into account when checking for different installations. Obviously the product name -- in my case "20XW0055GE" -- is highly significant, but your algorithm doesn't seem to take note of that.

Or simply ...

Hi!

I'm using a donation edition of FreeFileSync and get complains that I had it
installed on 10 devices. But if you look closely, it's ten times the same
device:

AW 13.4 20XW0055G -- LENOVO

I guess the trouble comes from my OS Tumbleweed, which changes nearly every
day. Your database seems ...

I switched to a new notebook recently, Linux. It has been added four times to the list of devices. The old notebook no longer is listed.

Hi,

FreeFileSync keeps adding the same computer again and again to the list of devices and refuses to start because the maximum number of devices is 3.

Please help.