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For 99% of my files 'File time and size' compare is fine but now I have a
program (an encryption) that doesn't update the time/date code when it access
a contained file. I really don't want to change to 'File Content' just to deal
with a single file nor move away from the near one click method that ...

After a system rebuild and partial upgrade was hoping to be able to run
FreeFileSync from linux rather than the vmware windows session which is what I
was previously doing. However I'm running Centos 6.3 and am very hesitant to
try and upgrade gcc to due to other reasons.

Anyone know if it is ...

Yep.. was a version problem. Had the 3.17 installer on the desktop but somehow
must have forgotten to run it :/

All is working and able to sync between the three locations fine again.

Thanks for ya help, ya patience and a great program.

Tried again and still get the same problem.

Am using 3.17 so deleted all the old database files and laptop/usb/desktop.
Did a full sync from laptop to usb.. did another sync a day later.. worked
fine.
Did a sync from usb to desktop. Worked as expected.
Did a sync from laptop to usb and got the ...

Okay.. thought the guys there was having the same issue and the workaround was
to have multiple databases.

If it worked with the single database spread over the three locations that'd
be fine with me.

I now get 'Incompatible sychronization database format: "...."" Setting
default sync ...

Was trying to work out if the easiest option might just be to revert back to
the version before the x64 db rename and found a feature request (Option to
change database filename in GUI and BATCH settings - ID: 2963611) where I
think you explain how what used to work for me came into existence ...

Sorry, might not have made myself clear. Also not exactly sure if it'll work
but here goes anyhow.

Three data sources. A, B & C. Two pairs of sync databases.

In this case A is sync'd to B and B is sync'd to C.
There would exist one sync.ffs_db for the A-B sync. Let's call it
sync_AB.ffs_db ...

Interesting. I had been doing this for quite some time successfully and only
recently did I start getting errors reported due to the incompatible format of
the sync db. Came here to check what had changed.

The only thing I can think of that may have changed at my end (apart from the
regular ...