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https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=tips-and-tricks#sync-selection
or
https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=exclude-files

Deleting files doesn't help with regards to this error, because a "file deleted" is also a "change" compared to the time when the last sync ran.

That's a known issue: viewtopic.php?t=9481

I already programmed exactly that kind of software for my personal use... 16 years ago! So why not share it now: https://www.mediafire.com/file/utieywhmi1fl2q6/MD5_DB.zip Usage: (0. Edit MD5 DB.reg to match the path where you put the tool, then double-click) 1. You create an "md5_db" text ...

FFS must be doing the cleanup before running the sync which allows an edge case where the most recent log file is older than the time setting specified and it then becomes not the most recent log Your explanations are spot on. There is indeed a little bug in the current handling. The latest log fil...

That's a regression in 13.6. Fixed, thanks for your report:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/725lcw3rb5330ih/FreeFileSync_13.7_%255BBeta%255D_Windows_Setup%25282%2529.exe

Copying symlinks between SFTP wasn't implemented. But now it is: https://www.mediafire.com/file/tc8dvxa1ibqy128/FreeFileSync_13.7_%255BBeta%255D_Windows_Setup.exe

Also: On which operating system does this happen?

Hm. I'm not sure. It might be cleaner to not show anything when a file or folder doesn't exist (= current behavior). Your screenshot only shows the left side, but the user always sees both sides, which gives the needed context.

Actually, it looks like the installer drops an unsigned executable installer in the appsdir temp area and tries to execute it. This executable, e.g. C:\Users\Zenju\AppData\Local\Temp\is-6B40T.tmp is properly signed. Other than that there's little one can do about this procedure. These are the shena...

In my test, Kubuntu was using dash. Yes, kompare is definitely in the path, so I'm not sure why it's not working within FreeFileSync. This might or might not be true. But it can be tested as follows: Add a new context menu option in FreeFileSync, give it some name e.g. "env" and the follow...

I wasn't able to test on Mint, but FWIW your command line does work on Kubuntu.

Most likely it's bothered by the fact that InnoSetup calls itself via an executable disguised as a tmp file in order to delay elevation. The AV signature is only a "Generic": https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#virus

I've moved the tooltip a bit down:

Fixed for the next version. It's a wxWidgets bug in their WAV file parsing.

I'm not able to reproduce this bug.

No

It's probably 15 years since I last needed to restore deleted files. Back in the day "GetDataBack for NTFS" was the only tool that worked for me.

Recycle Bin deletion in FreeFileSync works as follows: Instead of moving one file after another to the Windows Recycle Bin (which would be dog slow), FreeFileSync moves all these files to a temporary directory during sync (e.g. RecycleBin~5b04.ffs_tmp). Just before the end of the sync, the files *in...

Showing real name and surname in the FreeFileSync Donation Edition is deliberate and a form of copy protection. This information not shared with anyone, unless you share it.

You could select the first entry of each group, press F2, and prefix with a number.

In case you're allowing RDP to use UDP, I'd suggest blocking it in the firewall and going TCP-only, alternatively: https://winaero.com/microsoft-has-confirmed-the-bug-with-udp-in-rdp-on-windows-11-22h2/ Microsoft's homebrew UDP implementation seems to be repeatedly buggy and the unreliability isn't ...

Would you be able to provide me with a test login to this FTP server? Perhaps there's some way to fix encoding detection.

There's an inconsistency in the code that skips the "synchronizing folder pair message" when there's nothing to do for a folder pair, except when the DB file needs to be saved. Arguably the message should be skipped in the later case too, when no files will be synced. Especially when using...

In fact there is: https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=external-applications

Excluding filtering happens *after* it is determined what an item is (lstat).

I swear I remember this being address and fixed though, xCSxXenon, 27 Mar 2024, 18:25

Nah, I wish! There's even an old post by yours truly: viewtopic.php?t=5674