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by Giant Lizard
11 Sep 2025, 14:56
Forum: Help
Topic: "Cannot determine sync-direction: The database entry is not in sync, considering current settings."
Replies: 4
Views: 286

Re: "Cannot determine sync-direction: The database entry is not in sync, considering current settings."

When I try, I just get the message, but it doesn't tell me I can manually choose the actions to take for each item 😥

Also, I didn't know there were 2 db files 🤔 should I delete the batch job and restart from scratch?
by Giant Lizard
09 Sep 2025, 14:15
Forum: Help
Topic: "Cannot determine sync-direction: The database entry is not in sync, considering current settings."
Replies: 4
Views: 286

Re: "Cannot determine sync-direction: The database entry is not in sync, considering current settings."

Nice, thank you!

Now, I'm having second thoughts about what's actually better between "File content" vs "File time and size", especially because I'm doing backups of a very old hard drive which is probably easily subject to file corruption. I guess if a file gets corrupted it's easier that has the ...
by Giant Lizard
08 Sep 2025, 13:22
Forum: Help
Topic: "Cannot determine sync-direction: The database entry is not in sync, considering current settings."
Replies: 4
Views: 286

"Cannot determine sync-direction: The database entry is not in sync, considering current settings."

Hi,
I'm trying to user FreeFileSync to backup my files and I'm using the mirror synchronization with a comparison by "File content" instead of "File time and size".

Sadly, it gives me the error message I reported in the title, for hundreds of files, which are then not synchronized.

I don't know ...