FreeFileSync Forum

The difference between freemium and free is the demographic. FFS does the job perfectly for free, the premium extras are optional extras, they are not needed, but are nice to have if you want to move into a more “I use the heck out of this and it’s become an essential item”. Stop complaining that a ...

+1 for me too :)

I've recently been doing a security review of my systems and thought about this sort of thing. I'd be more worried about the fact that someone had access to your system than the app (and all your other apps like email, browser cached passwords, etc.). To get access to the app they'd have got passed ...

Thanks for the reply. Yes I could run them consecutively, but that's extra work on my part - I want the tool to do the hard work :) - of course, that means if I want to add a new folder pair I'd need to add a new config file, then edit the batch file, then run the batch file (then I'd have popups of...

Problem When syncing multiple folder rows, I need to know what has completed. Example Sync Row 1 - Backup my projects Sync Row 2 - Backup my movies Requirement Provide progress on each of the rows as they sync so I can determine when I can continue with my projects. It may take 5 minutes to backup ...

The I/O required to create a file and close it, seek to a new location for the next file is greater than the time to write a small file, especially on NAS, USB, and spindle disks. Even SSDs suffer from this.

Performance enhancement thought... Copy 100K small files (total 10GB) = x Copy 1 large file (total 10GB) = x / 10 i.e. small files copy 10 times slower. One thought would be to take the list of files to copy, sort them by size, and have two copy threads, one at each end of the list. so one thread co...