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Doesn't it suffice to simply untick "Check once a week" in the Help menu? That puts -1 into my xml in lieu of your ?? Stefan, the "??" was just my placeholder in the question, not the value I have in my XML file (grin), sorry for the confusion! I did not want to pre-answer the q...

We are looking to do a global update to our FreeFileSync installations, and are looking to verify what value we should use to prevent checking for updates. The value in the settings file is: <LastOnlineCheck>??</LastOnlineCheck> What do we set this to in order to prevent FreeFileSync from checking f...

Hello again - and no, I do not believe I have asked this question before (grin). We have the feature for transactional file copies enabled per the recommendation (<TransactionalFileCopy>true</TransactionalFileCopy>), which means that the file copy will create a file with the .ffs_tmp extension and t...

You can start a sync via command line and check that the error code is 0, in which case you can be sure that everything is in sync. If the error code is 1, there are warnings, the most important being conflicts. These are always written to lastsyncs.log. If 2, there is some error that may need to b...

@Michael: It seems we've discussed and resolved this very same problem already: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2096&p=9014#p9014 Yes, I knew this sounded SO familiar and I remember covering exactly this ground - and now I know why this has bubbled up again. My colleague mentione...

One thing we have been wrestling with is to find a simple way to determine that the source and targets are completely in sync, so that we know the backup is complete and up to date. Once that is the case, we can update our database record, update a help desk ticket, all kinds of things, but there is...

I have checked our config and can confirm we are NOT using versioning. Here is our top level sync config: <SyncConfig> <Variant>Automatic</Variant> <CustomDirections> <LeftOnly>right</LeftOnly> <RightOnly>left</RightOnly> <LeftNewer>right</LeftNewer> <RightNewer>left</RightNewer> <Different>none</Di...

As we expand the number of people in our backup pool, we monitor the space available on our backups servers closely. When we see a sudden drop, we run a scanner program to find files over a certain size OR cases where, for some reason, FreeFileSync creates *and keeps creating* a sequence of temporar...

Hello again! We are using FFS not only for ongoing backups (which is working really well), but also for on-demand system backups as part of XP to Windows 7 migrations. Our configuration settings do not show the progress dialog because the backup portion is embedded in a larger process. Based on cust...

Hello! We have been testing the changes in the 5.12 version and are quite happy with the updates you provided, specifically the changes to manage the folder deletion for FFS-owned temp folders. We will update our production implementation once the 5.12 code is production, how soon do you anticipate ...

Thank you again, I think it makes sense for us to keep the lock in place because we are in fact going to have people with more than one machine running FFS at the same time. Even though it might exact a small performance penalty, it seems the safer route.

Hello again! We are using the "automatic" mode in our sync solution and that is working very well overall. We are also including users over VPN who are syncing with the backup server on site, and while that works very well, the first part of the scanning process does seem to take a long ti...

Zenju, thanks for the clarification, I was trying to keep it as simple as possible given the confusion building around the sequence of events necesary to get this to work. It is all pretty simple once you understand it (grin). Let me take another look at the content in the Help File, perhaps we can ...

Edgar, I thought I saw an earlier post with an error you were reporting, and the error is an easy one to make. You can only pass a FFS_REAL file to RealTimeSync, you cannot pass it a FFS_BATCH file. So, once you have your RealTimeSync configuration up, the command line you include in your RealTimeSy...

Edgar, the shortcut must include in its configuration the additional command line option passing in the ffs_real file you want to run, you cannot just start up RealTimeSync or all it will do is run in GUI mode, showing you the dialog you are seeing and listing the last set of folders you had asked i...

Ok, hope this helps. Think of this as two separate steps, each with its own setup. You are going to use FreeFileSync to create your folder pairs and sync rules and logging and then save that configuration as a FreeFileSync batch file...let's call that "MySyncSetup.ffs_batch". Scenario 1 - ...

Ah, ok!! That makes sense, I think I can simulate this in our environment and will watch for the "moving...to Recycle Bin" message in the GUI and will try to kill the process or drop the network connection before then and see if I can get these new FFS-owned directories to stay behind and ...

Can you please clarify this so that I can make sure my testing is on target? "So a test case could look like: 1. run FFS until at least one file was shown on GUI as being moved to recycler (it's not yet there, just in the temp dir). When you say "on GUI", do you mean the FFS GUI or ac...

Thank you for the beta code, we will test it starting today and also try this on users who seem prone to seeing this issue occur. I wonder how best to simulate this for testing? Does this happen when the user has deleted files and then FFS is doing the folder cleanup on the local drive? Would we see...

If the user hibernates at work, the connection to our backup share is lost, and then when the user comes out of hibernation at home, and FFS picks up again, the network share is of course now no longer available - and this might be leading to some of these issues. The problem is that now FFS has no ...

Ok, so I need to go back now to the users reporting this "error" to see if these folders actually contain files that were pending a move to the Recycle Bin; if they do, I would imagine they are now considered normal directories and we sync them. We are definitely seeing a minor uptick in t...

somehow I am losing my entries here (grin)...one more time! What happens if FFS were to close or quit, or for some other reason, fail to delete those files and remove that directory during a sync event? Would it know to remove those files the next pass or would that now look like a normal real direc...

Hello everybody! We are seeing an occasional failure in our global FFS deployment where people are seeing the sync process creating a LOCAL folder called "FFS YYYY-MM-DD HHMMSS", so something like "FFS 2013-01-17 120506". These folders look like they are duplicating what would ha...

Here are two ways to solve your problem: 1. Use the versioning option in FreeFileSync and create a folder pair configured to back up JUST the LastSyncs.log file, every time you back it up, it would move your previous backup file based on the versioning option. 2. Create a specific directory to store...

Hello! Quick question about folder "last modified" dates. We are seeing that some folders on the target are getting new "last modified" dates rather than matching the "last modified" date of the source folder. Is this a known issue or something we can manage via an FFS ...

So sorry for the run on bolding, did not notice that...if there is a way to
edit the post, please let me know.

Hello again! Interesting question, hope this makes sense. We are deploying a sync solution that uses both RealTiimeSync and FreeFileSync, and we are already running into scenarios where we would like to make changes to the ffs_batch and ffs_real files. While we could do this with our software distri...

Did some simple initial testing with "follow" on for symlinks - permissions errors navigating into those folders. Those go away if I were to run FFS as admin, but that's not an option really. Secondly, it looks like it would create a folder called \My Pictures on the target share, because ...

Hello again! Interesting scenario, for which I think I have a workaround, but would like some advice or alternatives if they exist. Consider the following simplified scenario: XP system, we sync %csidl_MyDocuments% to \\backupserver\share\%username%\Documents This would by default include the direct...

One thing to clarify: the directory we monitor on the share is one that nobody uses, it's basically a flag directory (%synctarget%\online), so that RealTimeSync will only become active if the client is on the network - because they can see this flag directory. The only changes they should be getting...