FreeFileSync Forum

FFS is a great little program that I have not only recommended to many people
but have also installed on many computers. This past weekend, I ran it on my
file server to make a backup on a second shared driver on my home network. FFS
indicated that there were no files to copy. Here is an example of ...

Got it. Thanks.

All I have done is update FFS as I have become aware of the availability of
the update. The ffs_gui files in question are dated 01/03/2011. Is there a way
to convert these old files? One of the filters is pretty involved.

Thanks for the great program!

This morning when I started FFS, if I click on a filter file, the following
error message is displayed:

Error parsing configuration file:
"C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\iTunes Media.ffs_gui"

Could not read values for the following XML nodes:
<HandleSymlinks>

What has changed ...

Music files on one drive are synced with the same files on a network drive.
For some reason, the same songs on the two drives have different dates. (It's
not a FFS-caused problem.) Other than copying the files with the newer date on
top of the files with the older date, is there a way to sync the ...

My multiple hard drives have family pictures in multiple folders all over the
drives. I would like to copy all photos in whatever folder to a single shared
folder on my home server WITHOUT maintaining the folder structure. It is
highly unlikely that two different pictures have the same name. The ...

Every time I run a compare, I get the error message below. How do I get it to
stop appearing, other than Ignore, which doesn't seem to be the best solution.
I assume it is there for a valid reason.

Initial synchronization. Please verify default copy-directions!
(No database file existing yet: "C ...