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Hi FFS support, have you been able to find solutions to the mirror sync's erratic behaviors? A mirror sync isn't really such if it cannot consistently make the target an exact copy of the source.

Hi everyone,

Have any of you experienced those issues with mirror sync that I posted above? If so, have you found ways to solve them? Thanks.

I ran another mirror sync just now, with the source containing 2 newly edited files. FFS had the same erratic behavior as before: it copied one of them to ...

Hello FFS support,

Could you suggest ways to deal with the mirror sync issues that I've reported, which have persisted?

I guess these issues must impact other users, too, though they may not be quite noticeable, since FFS reports the syncs as "successful" every time (except when it couldn't remove ...

I redid the configuration as follows (both the source and the target folders and their paths stay the same as before), and saved it as a batch job:

• Source/left side: C:\Users\Username\Foldername 1\Foldername 2\Foldername 3\Foldername 4\Foldername 5\Poems
• Target/right side: C:\Users\Username ...

Hello FreeFileSync Support,

Here again are the recurring issues that I've been having with mirror syncs:

1) FFS doesn't seem to recognize that a file in the source folder has been edited if I don't make changes in the file name as well--even though the file's timestamp has changed (though the file ...

Hi FFS Support,

Could you provide some help with the above issues in one-way sync? Many thanks!

5.24 Friday 18:24
FFS again failed to sync edited files to the target folder: the changed files have exactly the same sizes as their older counterparts, but their timestamps differ by about 5 hours (though on the same day).

5/23
FFS was able to keep the source folder and the target folder identical this time; but at the bottom of the window, it stated that a difference remained: "281 files to be updated on the right side".


5/24
1. Had to manually delete 3 files from the target folder that FFS had been showing as "to ...

During the last few one-way syncs, I had to delete the “RecycleBin...tmp” file manually every time.

I got this error message once:

Also, during a mirror sync, FFS sometimes reports that it cannot delete a specific file. How could this be fixed?

Thanks.

One more issue--probably unrelated to the 2 syncing issues in question: FFS now & then reports an error, or gets stuck, because it cannot remove a file like RecycleBin~75e7.ffs_tmp from the target folder; I usually have to delete it manually to help it get unstuck.

Thank you again for helping me, Plerry.

Regarding "the overlap between Source and Target", well, it actually never existed: their full paths that I posted (with the folder names "generalized") stay the same as before--in my posted screenshot of the FFS window, I blanked out parts of their paths ...

Hi Plerry, thank you for answering my questions.

Now the question remains how, during a one-way sync, to persuade FFS--

1) To recognize changed files (even though the file names stay the same as before), so that it will sync them to the target folder in iCloud Drive; and

2) To delete from the ...

Hello again.

First, a few questions related to my one-way sync issues:

Would any or all of the following lead to syncing errors in FFS?

1. Having folder/file names in another language than English.
2. Having many folder levels above the source folder (see below).
3. Having a folder in iCloud ...

Thank you both. I'll look into the things you mentioned and then report back.

Hi, I just installed v13.6--it didn't solve my issues. Please help. Thanks!

We'll need the entire window, not a section xCSxXenon, 08 May 2024, 21:36

Hi, may I cover up the folder & file names shown in the window, or do you need to see those listed in the screenshot? Thanks.

Hi, may I cover up the folder & file names that are listed in the window? Thanks.

Including folder & file names?

Thanks. Here's the screenshot:

Hi,

I'm using FreeFileSync version 13.5 on a Windows 10 PC.

I use "File time & size" for comparison, and "Mirror" for sync, to sync a folder on my PC to a folder in iCloud Drive.

I ran into the following 2 issues:

1. After each "successful" sync, there always remain, in the target folder, some ...