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thank you both for the quick answer and solution

just curious, what is the rationale for this?

Directories are expected to be traversable beginning with the base folders

would there be a downside to just jumping straight to the path that is specified?

This is a bit of a weird one to describe since it depends on access permissions to test...

The Setup

Win10 FFS 12.5

The location being synced is from a NAS (N:) to a local drive (L:)

Folder pair
Left - N:\
Right - L:\

Filter
Include: "\lorem\ipsum\dolor\" - note, NO include "*" (wildcard ...

ok thanks!

to answer both questions:

12.1 was previously installed fine. i did not first uninstall it before installing 12.2.

i have not reproduced this error. things i've tried:
1. windows sandbox (no existing FFS), install 12.2
2. windows sandbox, install 12.1, then immediately install 12.2
3. on a ...

Hello,

I just got this error during install:

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Information:
Win10x64 22H2
installer: FreeFileSync_12.2_Windows_Setup.exe (SHA256: 7ABFF7004A4DBAC4E6D1F333675B3BB7AFC14AEDAFAF266E46CA5463E045F015)
existing version 12.1 - installing to upgrade that

I was unable to reproduce in a VM ...

in case anyone else might find this useful, this workaround should work:

put the main script into a batch file and have ffs' on-completion command be

start "" "path\to\bat"

"start" by default does not wait for the spawned process to finish before exiting which will allow ffs to wrap up. can put ...

oh sweet very nice thanks!!!

thanks for the comments guys


For troubleshooting, what if you change the on-completion command to wait ~30 seconds before the exit command? Then you can watch the sync finish and check the log folder. If the log file doesn't show up until those 30 seconds pass, then you'll know if the log is ...

I have a FFS batch file with an on-complete command to copy the most recent file from the default log folder

FOR /F "delims=" %f IN ('DIR "%AppData%\FreeFileSync\Logs\*.log" /B /O:-D /S') DO COPY /V /Y "%f" "C:\Users\me\Desktop" & EXIT

Recently (maybe in the latest few versions) I noticed ...

just wondering, how does FFS deal with files that are changed while a sync operation is running?

just based on observations of how it behaves, it looks like FFS works in 2 stages: comparison, and copy

I would therefore assume the following:

during the comparison stage, it scans the entire file ...

Yes the warning should not be shown in this case. TODO. viewtopic.php?t=7180 Zenju, 18 May 2022, 07:48

oh i guess this is known, thanks for confirming!

There appears to be an inaccurate warning being generated:

[0:00:00 PM] Warning: Some files will be synchronized as part of multiple base folders.
To avoid conflicts, set up exclude filters so that each updated file is included by only one base folder.
C:\test\to


a minimal example and sample ...