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I'm logged in as myself with admin privileges.

I poked around a bit. FFS creates a "batch" file ending in ".ffs_batch" that only the FFS program knows how to interpret. So, the shortcut launches FFS and passes in the .ffs_batch file. I tried setting "run as administrator" it worked for all my ...

I'm running FFS on Windows 10 and I've created a FFS batch file with a corresponding shortcut. This script requires that it be run as administrator. One way I can do that is to drag the shortcut to the taskbar and then Ctrl+Shift+Click it. Everything runs fine. What I want to do though is set the ...

Did you know that you can setup different Versioning folders for every folders pairs?

That sounds like exactly what I need but I couldn't find that in the documentation. Can you point me in the right direction?

OK, GOT IT. I didn't know about the ability to configure "local" versioning, it ...

Did you know that you can setup different Versioning folders for every folders pairs? Gianni1962, 15 Jun 2017, 23:42

That sounds like exactly what I need but I couldn't find that in the documentation. Can you point me in the right direction?

No, and whats FFS do is correct.

The changed file music.xlsx reside in the "root" relative to your folders pairs, so the old version is moved to the "root" of the folder you have chosen for versioning.

You can choose a different Versioning folder, for example:
M:\Versioned-Copies\_music\__Data ...

Version 9.1, Windows 7
Left: D:\_music\__Data
Right: M:\Versioned\_music\__Data
Versioning folder: M:\Versioned-Copies
File that changed: D:\_music\__Data\music.xlsx
File copied to: M:\Versioned\_music\__Data (this is correct)
Old file moved to: M:\Versioned-Copies (not correct)

Versioning doesn't ...