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Have you tried just putting a shortcut to RTS in your Windows Autostart folder? That's how I do it and RTS starts and sits quietly in the task bar when I startup the PC. I used instruction under heading...

"Example: Run RealTimeSync on Windows login", here
https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic ...

Just an update in case anyone else encounters this issue.... I was now getting a "Nothing To Sync" log file every 10 minutes. I tracked this down to my RTS monitoring my DropBox folder where a hidden .Dropbox.cache file was being updated every 10m. Simple solution was to NOT monitor D:/dropbox where ...

A changing sync.ffs_db file does not trigger RealTimeSync. It's specifically excluded.


OK, thanks. I guess it was some other property of google, the key is I stopped log file repeats by monitoring a level above it. I'm very happy with FFS/RTS now and it's so fast.

Thanks for your help on sync ...

OK so I've fixed it - thanks for all comments as you pointed me in the right direction to check hidden files.

It was all because once of my monitored paths in the batch file was my local Google Drive folder which meant it contained a hidden sync.ffs_db file and it was this that was constantly ...

Its monitoring a few paths but one is my local copy of Google Drive so I wonder if there's some hidden Google Sync file triggering RTS. I'll try disabling that path and see what happens. I'll also search out any other hidden files that may also be a cause and add them to my Exclusions list. Thanks ...

Is FFS only meant to create a log file when RTS detects changes?

I've just set up RTS to monitor a number of locations, but even when none of the files are changing I'm seeing a log file created every 20-30 seconds that states Nothing to Synchronise.

For now I've set Logs to be deleted after 1 day ...