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Thank you.
"Volume Shadow Copy" this is my problem with that.
So ffs 14.5 is the latest version that support Win7/8/8.1 with 64 bit.
Maybe, this should be mentioned in the download-archive.

After the latest FFS Update,
ffs run under Win8.1 in 32bit Mode.

Taskmanager:
FreeFileSync.exe
FreeFileSync_Win32.exe

This was not before.

FFs is starting within a batch with:
%PROGRAMFILES%\FreeFileSync\FreefileSync.exe

You are right, my mistake, sorry. I read:
"if not errorlevel = 0,
but I thought of
"if not errorlevel 0".
That is of course something different.

In the Manual under Section:
1. Run a FreeFileSync batch job ...
You can evaluate these codes from a script ...
you wrote:
if not %errorlevel% == 0 ...

This is not correct:
this means: if not errorlevel 0 (-> or higher!) ...
When you want to know errorlevel 0
you have to write:
if not errorlevel 1 ...

Is there a way to limit the filesize of the LogFile when an error occurred?
For example, the disk is full, or the drive is lost during a sync?

Auto-Delete "sync.ffs_db" after disabled in the settings from the folderpair?

Thanks, I should have found that too ...

Windows: FFS Error - with Task-Start - as user system (non-interactive) ...

i don't understand this error:
nowhere are these paths embedded in ffs-sync ...
looks like this affects version 12.5 ...

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[01:30:33] Fehler:
Cannot read file attributes of
"C:\WINDOWS ...

I really miss internal variable for:
"FolderpairDestination"
for last dir in the destination-paths.

Example:
Have to Sync several folder-pairs in one sync-task:
"c:\myfolder1" sync to "d:\project\myfolder1"
"c:\myfolder2" sync to "d:\project\myfolder2"
...
"c:\myfolder10" sync to "d:\project ...

I have a pc with a slow CPU and i start freefilesync with a bat in this way:

Start /Wait /AboveNormal "" "C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\FreefileSync.exe" "C:\ProgramData\backupControl_pcs\GlobalSettings.xml" "C:\pcs\pcs_scripts\konfig_ffs\ffs.ffs_batch"

In the Windows Taskmanager there a two ...

Hello,

If mirroring or synchronizing to a remote folder,
it would be nice to limit the download and upload to percent x,
so as not to fully load the Internet connection.

Hello Zenju,
maybe is it possible to have a Option in the settings-menu with:
Show Errors at the top of the Logfile: Yes|No

This is because i ran freefilesync with my own script and also i check the log with my script,
so failures in the log a always doubled detected.
And there is no solution for ...

Why using ffs to delete files?
- ffs doesn't stop
- can handle very long paths
- writes a very good log-file
- can do that with batch-processing
- support Unicode
- ...

Why not using ffs to delete files:
- User should exactly know what they do, when not - they lose files ...

When you want to ...

ffs runs, and try to sync all the files that should be sync, and writes all in the log.
So you have x-thousands log-entries with these errors.
And ffs finishes when all the necessary files are checked.
Having a big number of files then it takes a lot of time.

Hello Zenju,

when a (backup) drive is full (freespace = 0 Byte) then stop syncing or mirroring etc. immediately ...

Volker01

Hello,

when a user has a LOCAL OneDrive Folder with content,
but the OneDrive is not connected to microsoft,
then freefilesync cannot backup this folder ?

Error:

0:41:59 Nicht dem Standard entsprechende globale Einstellungen:
Gesperrte Dateien kopieren - Aktiviert
10:42:13 Vergleich ...

Feature Request:

New context-entry:
sort: A-Z

for automatically sorting the folderpairs from a to z.

Hello Zenju,
thank you for the new version.

I will rembering that archiving deletes / overwriting files when:
you have more folderpairs with identical folder and file structur,
because fffs begins archiving not with the basefoldernames but with subdirs!
This is a problem!

I have testet some ...

Use, for Example:

*\REM_GLOBALE_DATEIEN:
*\hiberfil.sys
*\pagefile.sys
*\swapfile.sys

*\REM_USERPROFILE_BZW_GLOBALE_AUSNAHMEN:
*\ntuser.dat*
*\UsrClass.dat*
*\UsrClass.dat*
*\AppData\*\*cache*

Paths in ffs are relative not absolut.
When your folderpair is: "C:\Users\Clive 2"
then you have to ...

Thank you to the txt Log-Option.

I have a Line Length Problem in *.txt Log.
It's not possible to filter the log in useful way.
FFS creates three lines - sometimes ...

Hello Zenju,
Normaly you use for each file a seperate line,
that is the minimal requirement for searching or filtering the log.

But there some exception !
...
<td valign="top">11:38:38</td>
<td valign="top"><img src="https://freefilesync.org/images/log/msg-info.png" width="16" height="16" alt ...

I agree with the others. Parsing html ist complicated.
I check the logfile filtering errors, making a small result-log and so on.
Sending html Logfiles per mail can be blocked from some mail-programs ...
With Windows cmd-tools you cannot easy handle UTF-8 files,
it must first convert in ANSI for ...

Hello,
I would like an new internal-var - for example: %base_path2% - with the Base-Folder-Names.
When having more than one folder-pairs:
i would use the these var for archiving.
Then for Example: Archivpath:
S:\ffs_archiv\%base_path2%\%date%

volker01

Settings: Comparison - Automatic retry

How many time times will ffs retry ?
One time ?
more than one times?

I forgot to say, ffs_batch is running over an Windows-Task - non-interaktiv (with user system).
In that case there is no tasktray.
The only way to stop ffs is to kill the task in Windows-Taskmanager.

Make an new Option to:
stop a running batch-job.

It can be very useful,
because kill a running batch-job,
remains the sync.ffs_lock files,
and the next run is very slowly.

Volker

Thank you, this helps.

Hello,
i'm searching for FFS 6.0 for Windows (2000),
does anyone have it ?
It's not in the FFS-Archiv.

Volker01

Error: Cannot move file
"..._2019-01-08__02-30-00.8227.ffs_tmp" to
"..._2019-01-08__02-30-00.log".
Error Code 183: Eine Datei kann nicht erstellt werden, wenn sie bereits vorhanden ist. [MoveFileEx]

what does it mean ???

volker01

Tools - Options- Copy locked files.
Then ffs uses shadow copy.
administrative rights required.

Show also the english names to the native language Names.
Maybe when moving the mouse over the native names.

No this don't retain the folder structure.

+1 also from me.
yes, it is a risk. A popup "Do you want to swap ..." would be ok.

I use ffs with the option:
"Versioning deleted files"
with the date-var: "...MyArchivPath\%DATE%"
with naming convention "replace".

For every day i have an new archive-folder. Thats fine.

But, to find the right files for restore is very annoying,
because the files are not stored with their full ...

For Example:

: Bild 1572.jpg (75.63 KiB) Viewed 3645 times

In my example here - there is only one warning,
but the warning counter shows every time one too many,
it counts also the the last line, i think that is not correct.
the last is the summary and should not be counted.

_____________________________________________
|19.10.2018 | host | Completed with ...

Do the beta versions have an expiration date?

I had installed ffs Version 10.4 Beta (after the problems with logfiles...).
Now today i get errors on two machines that say "The Installation files are corrupt and need to reinstall".
ffs ends with errorlevel 4.

@Harm,
It should not be a problem to analyze the used space, there are freeware programs like treesize. This sounds more like wrong sync settings from you. FreeFileSync can handle long data names, but the Windows Explorer can not. And FreeFileSync does not eat space and does only what you set. Post ...

Thank you,
works as expected.
volker01

errorlevel 1 comes with the change to 10.3.
My script showed me the old logfile before change,
and not the new one with your logpath-warning.
volker01

Addition: Option:
When user has no Logpath defined then use appdata...
else leave the individual Logpath as it is.

For me "Hold the last "n" Logfiles" is the best option.
volker01

Who can i detect the Version of FFS with a Script?

Hardcoded Logpath ist not useful!
When script is runnning with the user "System" (Windows) nobody has access to that APPDATA in the normal way...

ffs with scripting there are different user options ...
Running per GPO Shutdown-Script : ffs run is with the user SYSTEM
running same script from ...

Running ffs from a script,
it returns errorlevel 1 even it is succeslully or nothing to sync ...

Thank you,
is ffs running twice when syncing two idendical folder pairs?

exclude full filename: file.txt

- only in rootdir \file.txt
- only in subdir \subdir\file.txt
- overall, in root und subdir *\file.txt

that works as expectedly

filetyp only: *.txt

i expected:
- only in rootdir \*.txt doesn’t work ! doesn't sync *.txt in root AND subdir …
- only in subdir ...

ok,
maybe it is more usefull (only for mirroring) to lock only the dest. and not the source too?
doubled reading from more than one ffs at the same time should be no problem (with the exception of speed of mirroring) ...

[00:54:30] Fehler: Die Datei
"C:\Users\username\OneDrive\Erste Schritte mit OneDrive.pdf" kann nicht nach
"S:\ffs_Sicherung\Users\username\OneDrive\Erste Schritte mit OneDrive.9fdf.ffs_tmp" kopiert werden.
Fehlercode 395: Der Zugriff auf die Clouddatei wurde verweigert. [CopyFileEx]
... and so ...

ok,
maybe its a problem from the shadowcopy?
i'm mirroring with "copy locked files"
and there are also events in that case:

[16:24:45] Error: Cannot copy file
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\~outlook - Outlook2.ost.tmp" to
"S:\computer_DaSi\ffs\Profile\username\AppData\Local ...

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