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Wonderful, thanks!

No error message. Nothing at all happens. Clicking on the icon is like not clicking on it. Not sure about the modification date: in the Finder, under "Date Modified", it has today 01:37, which is 1 minute ago when I unzipped it to check the modification date. I don't think this is the date you want.

Hi Zenju,

The latest version 7.0 does not launch on my Mac OS X (Yosemite 10.10.3). I downloaded it several times to make sure. I have reverted to 6.15, which is working well.

Just tested on OS X 10.9.5:

sudo FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync

correctly starts FreeFileSync. OTOH the "FreeFileSync" binary is in fact existing in the released package. So it seems that - for whatever reason - it was missing in your test above.
Probably some weird thing on my ...

If I right-click on FreeFileSync.app and select "Show Package Contents", the FreeFileSync file is there inside MacOS.

So the "FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync" file is missing? This explains already why double-clicking the app does not work. Where did you download the .zip archive from?Zenju

Here, as usual:

https://freefilesync.org/

Would you explain that more slowly please? Thanks!

ITs-MacBook-Air-2:Downloads PatrickT$ cd FreeFileSync_6.10_Mac_OS_X_64-bit
ITs-MacBook-Air-2:FreeFileSync_6.10_Mac_OS_X_64-bit PatrickT$ sudo FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync
Password:
sudo: FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS ...

Can you post screenshots of the error messages you are seeing?Zenju

Sorry Zenju, I downgraded to 6.09. Today I downloaded 6.10 again and clicked to launch it: nothing happens, no error message, the program is not launched, nothing...

and 6.10 app not working at all for me ("invalid something specification" error message), but 6.9 still works.

The app crashed repeatedly on start-up after I had moved the location of the ffs_gui. On Mac OS X Mavericks, go to: Library -> Application Support -> FreeFileSync and open the GlobalSettings.xml with a text editor to delete the offending paths manually. Problem solved.

If you're using the FFS launchpad release ( https://launchpad.net/freefilesync ) then file associations should be set automatically so that you can double-click .ffs_batch file just as in Windows.

> I like it that I can review file differences

You can do this easily in FFS by integrating an ...

How can I execute a FreeFileSync batch script on Ubuntu?

I have set up a batch job, saved in a file with extension ".ffs_batch". What now? If I double-click on it, there is no file association.

I am familiar with executing .bat files on Windows by double-clicking, but I'm on Ubuntu. I expect there ...