FreeFileSync Forum

Thanks Plerry. There was no log because the job never finished. Here is the problem and the solution that I discovered. I was using volume labels, for example: [VolLabel], for the right location. I manually typed the square brackets and labels for the second and third pairs. When I instead used the ...

I am using a FreeFileSync batch that contains three left and right folder pairs to mirror from left to right. I am running the batch from a scheduled task in Windows Server 2019. Only the first pair of folders are updating. The second pair and the third pair never update. Do I need to do something s...

I am using a computer running FreeFileSync to back up network shares that are hosted by another computer. I am getting the message: Error Code 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (CopyFileEx) Cannot access the Volume Shadow Copy Service. Volume Shadow ...

If I want to run the 64-bit version of FreeFileSync do I need to explicitly run the 64-bit version?

The documentation is ambiguous. In the first reference it says "writing" and in the second reference it says "read and write". If the feature is unnecessary for my environment then I would like to disable it because it sometimes leaves orphaned sync.ffs_lock files.

I have approximately 20 concurrent FreeFileSync batch processes. Each FreeFileSync process writes to a different destination folder. Do I need to use LockDirectoriesDuringSync? Thank you.

Inheritance is disabled on the folders.

I checked the box for "Copy DACL, SACL, Owner, Group" but when I view the security properties on copied folders and files none of the original permissions are there. Is there something else that needs to be done to get the permissions to transfer?

The file properties in File Explorer show a different "Size" but identical "Size on disk". This is all very odd because the source file had not been changed by a user and the created and modified dates and times are identical on both the source and the target. Only the size is di...

But FreeFileSync is saying that the file SIZE is different while the date and time are the same. The files have not been modified. This synchronization is from NTFS to NTFS.

I keep getting the message that "Files have the same date but a different size". The files have not been touched in years. Why does this message appear?

Hello: When should FreeFileSync be used with RealtimeSync and when should it be used in a continuous loop in a batch file? What is the difference? Thank you.