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This isn't a bug in FreeFileSync, but in Commander One Pro. If the mounted drive incorrectly returns empy folders without also signifying an error, there is nothing that a client software can do.


Quite so. I've had chance to fiddle around a bit more today and can declare the combination of ...

You're right. Turns out it's actually even easier, though. I didn't realise that there's a "Show in Finder" option under CO's File menu which does mount the device in the Finder like any other volume.

The problem I'm finding doing some quick tests with FFS is that I'm getting various read errors ...

This is especially pertinent now that with Android 14, and various updates to Android 13, the contents of the Android/Data folder are no longer accessible from the device itself, only over a USB connection. That means sync and file manager apps on the phone can't be used to back up application data ...

I've just quickly tested this and it works (all one command line)

osascript -e 'set activeFolder to POSIX file "/Users/ClutterCutter/Pictures/Some Pictures/These Pictures/A Folder of Pictures"' -e 'set theFilesOfInterest to {"Picture1.jpg","Picture2.jpg","Picture_3.jpg","Picture Four.jpg","Picture ...

Excellent! :)

I think I may have misled you, however. Sorry.

To generate a list including all selected items (separated by space) , append "s" to the macro name

The separator may need to be a comma, actually; or the list be formed of each item on a new line.

I haven't looked at the beta as yet ...

Ah, I see. Well, the script can be constructed via osascript: it takes multiple -e statements, so a multi-line script can be built and be quite sophisticated.

Might be best to separate the folder and the items, as I did in my script above, which was based on this comment .

If the %item_names ...

Yes, indeed:


If it's possible to add a "macro" that provides all the filenames as an array or list then I think the solution could lie with osascript within the existing terminal command paradigm.


But I can't see how to get the list of files without a new eg. %items_list% macro, because there ...

For the record: FreeFileSync can also preview images. Right-click on column header and select "medium" icon size.


That is really useful, and your application overall is unbelievably brilliant!

Still, I wanted to be able to have the selected items transferred across to a finder view...

So the ...

Ah, clever!
New user, so didn't know that's how it worked.
(The option is at the bottom of Preferences on Mac, rather than under Tools.)

I'm not sure how to craft a solution with it, though...

The %local_path% macro doesn't pass a list or array, just a single file. So in the case of a multiple ...

When comparing two folders on macOS there's a right-click option to "Reveal in Finder".

If multiple files are selected, however, only the first one is selected in the Finder window.

It would be fantastically useful to have them all selected so that you can easily use Quick View with them, or batch ...