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Absolutly. Although I can see a case for it bi-directional, but with modified behavour - say copy file(s) either way with the modified files having different names. For instance Dropbox does something similar in this scenario. This leaves the user (outside of FFS) to resolve the conflict. But again ...

Also see help thread here: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=40327 Request to have an option to ignore size and / or time mismatches between anaylse and sync. Currently if a file changes between analysing and then syncing FFS throws an error and doesn't copy the file. It would be great ...

+1 for this.

character remapping would probably be my preference so there is a defined route.
Could be exposed as regex to give the end user control over how this works.

Hi LeoW, Thanks for the detailed reply! Whilst I referred to log files - they are the clearest example of a file that changes between analysing and syncing - this happens with any file that changes between the two processes. Which means for a live directory, say one being used by other peope on a sh...

Just a little bump here.
If this is a dead end with this software, let me know and I'll find a different solution.
thanks,

Hello, I'm using FFS on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Desktop). FFS is set up as Mirror from an SFTP server (remote) to this machine. Remote machine is a server. Mostly everything works fine - I'm just looking for a snapshot backup. However, log files aren't syncing as their size changes between Compare and S...