FreeFileSync Forum

(I don't know about such things, but) is I: plugged into the NAS itself or into a USB port on your computer?

Are you able to copy a file - using Windows Explorer, from D: to NAS?

You can approximate that by removing the unwanted folder pairs, & then by NOT saving the .ffs_gui when prompted on quitting.


(Can't hurt to have backed up your .ffs_gui's ahead of time in case you accidentally do overwrite the existing ;-).)

Can you open C:\Projects\WebGL\.gitattributes in Windows Explorer?


Anything here help, Where should I place my global 'gitattributes' file?

FWIW: Deleting files without touching a directories date

If I'm remembering correctly...

I used robocopy to backup the timestamps of the /directories/ within a directory tree - ahead of time

ROBOCOPY %SOURCE% %COPY% /E /XF *


then used (UNIX) touch to "re-date" the (changed, so touched ...

Can you browse H:/<directory in question>/ through Windows Explorer?

(https://freefilesync.org/api/ might ? exist, but one is unable to actually access it - at least in that manner.)

Computer reset... hmm.

Have a backup of your web browser "Profile" directory?
If so, a URL of, a (browser) history search of, 'freefile thank', might turn up your wanted donation link.

(Or, 'freefile thank-you', to be a bit more specific, is how I find mine ;-).)

For the part, Both sides have changed since last synchronization.

For the iCloud ?

While we're here, Pausing a sync appears to not stop I/O ?

So a pause will pause, but if FFS is dealing with a large file, (if FFS is dealing with any file), it will finish that file before the pause actually pauses (which could be, timely).

You can use (Sysinternals) Sigcheck for that.

sigcheck -n -nobanner FreeFileSync.exe -> 13.8

With Everything (1.5 Alpha), you can do something like:

?:/LIB/ distinct: file:

Which would search for distinct file names within a [drive]:/LIB/ directory tree.
Like I have C:/LIB/ & K:/LIB/, & with above, I can see file (names) that are distinct, not in both locations.

Or something like ...

If there were an Attribute check (there is not), if removing the +A (archive) attribute from a (source) file after Update were an option, if the source file were then left unchanged, then you could do something like IF -A (archive attrib is not set), then skip file...

(But that is not available ...

I thought that after a file had been copied to the target destination, we could do anything to the copied file (including deleting the file), FFS would never resync the file from the source destination.
To accomplish something like that, you would need to move the source file out of the source ...

I periodically, haphazardly, compare files for "exactness".
There have been times that files did not compare - which I find very odd.
And I make notes (haphazardly ;-)) of such occurrences.

And if I come across something like that, my first thought is, "the drive is dying", or there has been "bit ...

This can happen due to hardware failure, e.g. a flaky USB cable, or loose contact.
My M/B (seemingly my M/B) has been acting up of late (... thinking it is on its way out - totally).
Appears to be particular SATA connector(s) on my M/B.
1 seems to have died entirely.
When I plug into another, that ...

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(elsewhere, outside of FFS)

all of a sudden i'm hit with ongoing messages like:


CreateFile(The system cannot find the path specified.3) : S:\III\...


this, while copying files to it, to S:, it went "offline",
bad drive or bad (external) box the drive is in, or... ?

in any case, the drive ...

When the issue really was about network connectivity these should be something like ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED.

Those are in there:


12:54:29 Info: Cannot read directory "S:\Emulation\Games\Nintendo Entertainment System".
ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED: The specified network name is no longer available ...

> inmotionhosting

Tell us more.
In what manner are you connect to InMotion with FFS?

the file size from windows, which is different on ascii files than linux
Run that by me again?
A copied file should maintain its' size.

A file modified under a different OS, & if that modification also changes line endings, will (may) change the file size (as different OS use different line ...

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So they have the capabilities to disadvantage third-party access at any time they like.

Not saying it is the issue here, & maybe it is not deliberate :evilgrin:, or maybe it is, & they'll never say so, but...

Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again
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when testing with files that contained spaces. It would only give me the text up to the first space
That happens when using a batch file, but not when the echo is placed directly as a parameter in the FFS dialog box.

For a batch file you would need something like

@echo off
set name="%1"



Not ...

When does this happen, during the installation or when attempting to run the program?

Do you have correct privileges (rw, I suppose) to /usr/share/freefilesync/ ?

when copying files to a different storage medium (ie. from a hard drive to a SD card) it is normal to expect differences in file size

No, that is not normal.
There should be no file size difference.

If you are seeing differences, you should investigate why.

My FreeFileSync.exe got neutered.


Just noting...

Somehow, my My FreeFileSync.exe got neutered, ended up changed.
+A Attribute set (where it had not been before), & size set to 0 bytes.

Might I have inadvertently done that?
Possibly.

No other files affected.
Other then that .exe, all files ...

If you try to print to a file named con.txt, con.csv, or con.xxx, your data gets sent to CON (which is the console [the monitor]) instead of to a file.

DIR > CON.ididntknowthat

Neat.
Thanks :-).

(screenshot has your .org name in it, if that matters.)

Do a search for "*.ffs_real" & see what & where it turns up.

(There is nothing better for searching then, Everything.)


And it's not clear, but you did change (IMAGE 3) from .ffs_real to .ffs_batch?

Screenshot in first post, viewtopic.php?t=11650, also has > 10 pairs (& with 13.7 RTS).

Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly...

So the issue was not "reserved filenames".
As PRN <> PRN.txt nor PRN.csv.

But "Mangling".

And PRN.txt & PRN.csv were mangled - why, because the extensions were in lower case?

So if before changing your mangling setting, your files had been named ...