FreeFileSync Forum

Hi,

I duplicated your error and my research suggests that it cannot be done.

Microsoft treats that folder as a special type of folder and it doesn't adhere to normal file folder standards and free file sync cannot write its DB file.

The short answer is no, FreeFileSync cannot reliably back up or ...

Hi,
Using a USB cable to an Android phone and I have a Samsung also is not very reliable.

I recommend installing an app from the Google Play app store that supports FTP and use FTP from ffs instead of USB.

Get wifi ftp server and your problems should go away.

Hi,

No need for any information regarding software. I did a little research and found the reason why you are seeing the results that you do.

FFS not only needs that Library it is bundled with the software.

Winscp uses a different method of authentication and therefore it does not require that ...

Hi,

There is no super easy way to do a synchronization without looking at the files. You just want to make sure the app you're using does so efficiently and I don't have any idea how to compare them.

In addition to synchronization I also run a backup program called kopia. It is a lot more ...

@d.andras

If you get the donation version which I have you can set the app to automatically email you when the job completes. You will get an email either saying that it was successful or you will get an email saying that it failed and why.

Cool. Glad to assist. I do a lot of networking tech.

Hi,

Can you provide some additional information such as the platforms that you're using what is the client and what is the server and what programs are you using on the server?

Hi,

I have a Galaxy cell phone and can confirm that FTP or SFTP are better choices than MTP. I use FTP to eliminate the encryption overhead because I'm working at home and don't worry about the encryption.

There are several applications that are in Google Play that provide FTP.
I recommend an app ...

I know of two programs one of which might help you.

Air Explorer. Copies cloud to cloud but don't know if it supports interrnxt.

Air live drive. Mount Cloud drives.

Hi,

Ok. You have tailscale which gives you an IP address to your internal computer but not an SMB connection.

What software are you using to mount the SMB share.? I might be able to give you some suggestions.

Ok, sorry I should have been more specific. When you map the drive to the nas are you doing it with what protocol SMB or SFTP?

First do this:

Tip: Run tailscale status in your command prompt. If you see relay next to your NAS connection instead of direct, your speed will be significantly throttled ...

Hi,

What operating system are you on and what are you mapping to? Perhaps I can try and duplicate this because I also have tailscale installed.

Hi,

What is the file system format on the external drive?

It's best if it were either ext4 or NTFS. If it's FAT32 that's probably your problem. Exfat should work too.

Here is a list of things to try.

linux error

Hi,
What if you tie your backup jobs into The real-time sync feature?

You won't have the whole gui running all the time but you will have a little icon down in the system tray.

That's probably the best you're going to do with ffs. And, as always there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Understood. It doesn't mean that using this option is not a valid way of fixing the problem.

Launch power toys first which it runs with Windows and then fancy zones is pre-configured with where you want your apps to go and then free file sync should open in that window and stay there.

Worth a try.

You can try windows powertoys.
One of its sub applications is the ability to create pre-allocated positions on your screen for applications to go to.
You can have free file sync open every time into a specific window on a specific monitor every time.

The feature is called fancy zones

Hi,

I also sync to Nas.

1. Have you tried mapping a drive letter to nas share?

2. I prefer to mount nas using rclone. You can try that too.

Hi,

I put together some notes regarding your situation. They describe an easy way to split your large backup between two smaller physical disk drives.

Splitting FFS backups between two physical drives.

Hi,

I am not a mac user and so I have no way to confirm any of my research will actually help you.

This link contains some suggestions that might help you get around your problem.

Fixing FFS donation Edition install on Macos

Hi @somecomputing.com

Glad to hear you found my research useful.

I've been programming and managing computers and networks since I was in high school and now in my 60s!

I rely on apps like Joplin and obsidian to collect and organize everything. I can publish my research to the web and then use ...

Hi @somecomputing.com

When FreeFileSync runs elevated, it can modify anything the SYSTEM account can touch:

C:\Windows
C:\Program Files
Service directories
Driver folders
A misconfigured sync job or wrong-side copy can nuke files Windows depends on.

As yourself: Windows blocks most of these ...

Process Monitor from SysInternals would probably be a very good choice.

Mike,

Great News!

If you would rather be more secure instead of running the software as administrator just grant yourself The Limited permissions necessary to create a file in one folder.

Hi,

It sounds like the macOS Tahoe update has "orphaned" your FreeFileSync (FFS) permissions.

The instructions in this linked note should cure your problem.

[https://pzgg1fpeau.joplinusercontent.com/shares/FLTSAgIyHxBf0ebdLE7Czd

Sorry, not slop as you say. These are the commands that I actually run on my phone.

Did ai help me get the job done yes. But these instructions work.

If you did a little research yourself you would learn that Android GUI apps that serve files over the network all suffer from problems related to ...

This is the best I can think of. Ffs I do not believe has a continuously flowing indicator that you can monitor on a web page.

Is there any continuous indicator?

If you need to see active movement from another app, your best bet is to monitor the temporary files FreeFileSync creates.

By default ...

Here is some information that's together regarding the use of your own SMTP server. You can't remove the built-in server but you can add your own.

https://pzgg1fpeau.joplinusercontent.com/shares/MwVqXigOtRQG8PiM99MKvc

If it is extremely important to do all of the final copies in parallel you can do that with a built-in windows program called robocopy. Run a separate instance in as many terminal Windows as necessary.

Use robocopy (built into Windows)
You can run multiple commands like:

robocopy E:\Photos D ...

Yes. I understand the difference in speed is minimal in this case because I was referencing a an Android FTP program rather than what I normally use which is an FTP program inside a program called Termux.

Termux in short is a version of Linux that runs on Android and it runs at a lower level than ...

If you do a speed test comparison you should find that wifi ftp is faster than Microsoft phone link.

There is an app in Google Play called wifi ftp.
No encryption is necessary if you're backing up your own phone in your own home on your own network. It's faster than using encryption.

You got it working that's what's important.

It's the best I could come up with.

One way is a post sync command.
No guarantees all of these commands are 100%.

FreeFileSync is fundamentally a synchronization tool, so it doesn't have a "Move" button by default. However, you can achieve an auto-delete behavior using a Post-Sync Command.
This is the safest way to ensure files are ...

What I do instead of what you're trying is plug a 1 GB ethernet adapter into my phone giving me maximum throughput to my router and to my PC that I used to back up the phone and it can be either windows or Linux and I can mount the phone by the IP address and use ffs.

What if you just go into the adapter settings in Windows 11 and remove support for ip6?
You probably not using it and don't need it and would be just as well without it.

Hi,

You can still download and use the free version of macrium reflect. That is what I use to image my computer daily.

https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/macrium_reflect_free_edition.html

I just checked and the default setting in the Apple software for Windows that lets you access iCloud is on demand file access so the files are normally in the cloud only until they are accessed then they get downloaded temporarily.
This is not an ideal situation for synchronizing your data to an ...

Hi,

Ffs does not directly manage cloud storage such as iCloud you would need to have an iCloud program on your PC in order to access your iCloud files.

Can you presently access your iCloud files from the Windows File explorer?

If you can see your iCloud files in Windows File Explorer you should ...

Hi,

For Dropbox I use and recommend the use of rclone to mount Dropbox Without using the Dropbox client that synchronizes files back and forth To your PC.

This gives you a way for free file sync to directly synchronize from the source to whatever destination you choose such as an external SSD.

NO!

Rclone is merely a software program that mounts cloud storage and other drives so that they can be used with free file sync.

For example I use Linux in addition to Windows and I have the need to synchronize files on different Cloud drives that are not included with free file sync so I use ...

Hi all,

I've been using an Android app to sync data from my cell phone to computer and getting an average of 30 megabytes per second.

With the help of chat gpt I installed an app called termux which is Linux on Android. From there I installed an SFTP server called dropbear.

im using rclone to ...

Thanks for the tip regarding this software I will check it out.

Microsoft includes open SSH server with Windows so there's no need to set up any third-party software on any machine at all.
Simply going to settings and optional software and enable SSH server and windows will automatically load SSH ...

Hi,

I turn my cell into an sftp server with free app in Google Play. Then use ffs sftp.

It will be fall of this year before they release anything production and then people need to code after that so I wouldn't expect any apps to support the proton API until 2027.

Hi,

If those computers are running Windows 11 what you can use is Windows 11 file sharing you need to look in chat for how to set up Windows file sharing and share on the network the folder that you would like to synchronize to the other computer

Hi,

Not knowing what operating system or your skill level I will give you a general reply and you can follow up with a question.

Windows/Linux both support MS SMB so in Windows the file sharing feature is disabled by default with a few enable it you can share a folder on each of your two computers ...

Yah I agree.

The only way I can think of to display it in megabytes is to export the file list to a CSV and edit it in a spreadsheet and use a formula to convert bytes to megabytes.

Proton Drive is a tricky one.
The Proton Drive software for Windows is designed to synchronize your files between your PC and your Proton Drive and I think if you try and use free file sync to copy the files to the Proton Drive has it appears on your computer it's merely going to put them in the ...

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