FreeFileSync Forum

Hi, the daylight saving time trick did it, thanks. I've yet to verify if the external drive is a FAT system... thanks.

I suspect this will fix the problem, but this is not a solution, it is a workaround.
Will try it and get back.

Hi, I have an external HDD connected to my router to which a make regularly backups using FFS, recently I switched to a different ISP and now FFS want to make a full resync of all my files (the amount is huge and it will take days), I even tried connecting the HDD directly and copying the files ...

Zenju, the problem is not FFS, it is within Android 442, all available methods to fix the write permission to the external card achieve limited success. Somehow FFS cannot bypass Android 442 limitation protecting the external sd card, even on a rooted device with sd card fix applied (both manual and ...

Here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7uwgbnqlywfh9b4/FreeFileSync_x64.rar?dl=0

Zenju, were you able to identify the problem? Sorry to nag you, but i would really like to get to the bottom of this.

The program hangs when trying to create "sync.ffs_lock" on the external SD card of the android device

No, sorry, I misled you, just tested creating a new file on the PC directory and it hangs again, this time on 2.26%. So it hangs whatever it tries to do.

The problem seems to be the propagation of deletions from the PC to the SD card (using the "mirror" option)
Could this be related to FFS's fail-safe copy option?

Sadly, no. I just set the "Delete files" to "Permanent", hoping that this will be the cause, sadly, it is not. FFS just hangs on this ...

In my case this did not help, I've formatted my 128 gb external SD card in the device and I cannot sync my music whatever I do :( FFS just hangs, no error msg whatsoever.
Samsung Galaxy s5, rooted, with sd permissions enabled, android 4.4.2
The problem seems to be the propagation of deletions from ...

Hi, I want to sync my music mirroring the folder on my win 7 PC to my android device, as long as there are no deletions to be mande on the external sd card of the android device it is OK, if the mirroring needs to delete something FFS just crashes.
Any ideas? (I have fixed the writing permitios for ...