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It's an interesting issue, and I agree that it's not good to ignore differences. I think we need to understand why a file may have leading or trailing spaces. If it could be intentional, yes, I agree that FFS should treat differences as differences. To better understand this issue: Which file system...

BEFORE.bat: DEL C:\COPYSTUFF\*.TMP COPY C:\COPYSTUFF\* C:\IREALLYOUGHTTOBACKTHISUP\ ECHO Ready to back up... pause {PATHTOFFS}\FREEFILESYNC.exe -DirPair C:\IREALLYOUGHTTOBACKTHISUP\ X:\MYBACKUPS Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, something like that won't work well. I have many FFS config...

FreeFileSync allows the user to run commands AFTER sync. It would be great if you could please add the option to run commands BEFORE sync. Thanks!

Thank you!

BTW, I realize this won't help most people here, but if it helps anyone, FreeFileSync supports dark themes quite well in Windows 7. You just create a dark theme for the OS, and FreeFileSync will use that dark theme.

I, too, would very much like to use FreeFileSync in dark mode. Literally all my other software supports dark mode. Someone in the first page of this thread said that dark mode works in Linux. I'm using the Flatpak of FreeFileSync 13.4 on Linux Mint Cinnamon, but FreeFileSync is not dark themed. All ...

... FFS writes both DB files as temporary files first, and only then renames them. Zenju, 18 Sep 2023, 06:36

All this writing/renaming/overwriting takes place only in the source/destination base folders, correct?

What format is used for FreeFileSync's moved/renamed files databases?

Are they encrypted SQLite databases by any chance?

> Where are these database files stored? They are stored in the left and right base-location(s), upon closing FreeFileSync, after having run a Compare and Sync. Thanks Plerry. I was looking in the FreeFileSync data folders, and not in the base locations. Also, realized they have the hidden attribut...

Thanks Zenju. Unfortunately, that's not my experience. So let's diagnose what's happening. What is FreeFileSync doing to detect other websites are available, but its website is not?

Also, what is the method to get it out of this confused state?

According to https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=synchronization-settings#moved-files: > Detection of moved files is not yet possible when synchronizing a folder pair for the first time. Only beginning with the second sync the database files are available to determine moved files. Where are th...

Thanks for your reply, and I apologize for my long delay in responding.

What do you think of having FreeFileSync write `LastRun.ffs_gui` to the same folder as `GlobalSettings.xml`?

Thank you again for FreeFileSync. Most of the time, I am not using a computer connected to the internet. FreeFileSync, until v13.0, handled this without issue. I would simply disable FreeFileSync update checks using the appropriate menuitem, and all was well. Yes, it would try to access the internet...

Any thoughts on the suggested improvements?

I agree that it would be very nice to have the option, for OS / file systems that support it (e.g. Windows NTFS volumes), to specify that the target folder will be compressed by the operating system.

Even when using the FreeFileSync command line parameter to specify a custom global config file of `D:\FFS_Settings\GlobalSettings.xml` and also using `D:\FFS_Settings` for all `*.ffs_gui` (and using `D:\FFS_Settings\Logs` for all log files), FreeFileSync still writes to the user's `Roaming\FreeFileS...

I'm not sure what would be "best". At least FreeFileSync is consistent with Windows Explorer now: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9822 Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure either. I can, naturally, only speak for myself, but I liked the previous behavior much more. Here's wh...

The changelog for FreeFileSync v11.29 states: Compress copied file only if target folder is marked as NTFS-compressed (Windows) Is this the desired/correct behavior? I took a look at several Windows boxes (and their backups), and they all have NTFS-compressed files in folders that are not themselves...

I can actually confirm what OP is experiencing... Maybe using macros could disable this warning since it's never possible to prevent this situation. Or an option per-folder-pair to ignore this warning? I like both of these ideas. The latter idea gives the ultimate flexibility and also has the benef...

When you get the referred to warning in the FreeFileSync (FFS) GUI, you have the option to checkmark not to get that warning any more in the future. That should resolve your issue. Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I don't see any checkbox to no longer receive that warning. Instead, I'm pres...

This is my initial post here. First, thank you sincerely for FreeFileSync. I feel much gratitude to everyone involved, especially the primary developer. How can I avoid the warning message "The following folders do not yet exist" while not ignoring all errors for a sync profile? For some s...