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UPDATE: Final version 1.0 (macOS Tahoe & legacy compatibility)

I would like to share my final script with the community, hoping it might be useful for other macOS users. While I developed and tested this on macOS Tahoe 26.3 on an M4 Mac Mini, the logic relies on standard launchd events and bash ...

UPDATE: Final security & maintenance hardening (macOS Tahoe 26.3)

I’ve successfully optimized the setup and confirmed the behavior on the new M4 architecture. Here are the final improvements:

Security hardening. You do not need to grant Full Disk Access to /bin/bash (which is a broad permission ...

RTS does have to be a running process, yes, but so does LaunchAgent. You can have something monitoring for drive presence without it running. It is negligible resource usage, you won't notice it.
RTS is already installed with FFS, so cleanliness also doesn't matter here, aside from an icon showing ...

Just use RTS. https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=realtimesync


Thank you for the suggestion! I did look into RTS, but since I'm new to this, I have a few doubts regarding my specific workflow.

My backup drive is connected sporadically (sometimes once a day, other times once every two ...

Hi everyone,

I’m a new user of FreeFileSync (v14.7) and I am currently running it on a Mac Mini M4 with macOS Tahoe 26.3. While setting up my workflow, I realized I was missing a feature that is essential for my needs: automatically starting a backup as soon as an external drive is connected ...

Hi,

I just installed Freefilesync 14.7 on my Mac Mini M4 running Tahoe 26.3.

I ran a test sync and, after pressing the minimize button in the notification area, I noticed that the icon turned into a yellow "thing" (see attached file).

Is this a bug or something?

Thanks