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It's a shame because apart from that, there is not one other Sync tool out there that combines blazing speed, ease of use and a friendly GUI like FFS.

You could try Beyond Compare by Scooter Software.

It doesn't have the advanced configuration features that FFS does, but it does a reasonable ...

After much discussion and consternation over this issue, I finally resolved myself to accept "the way we roll here", and have relenquished trust, assuming that the file selection process works the way it's supposed to. I have given up analyzing the data shown in the output screens, and assume that ...

Hello,

This may have been considered before, but perhaps worth bringing up again:

Would it be feasable to introduce an option to compress and encrypt target files and directories without having to use BitLocker or VeraCrypt (etc)?

For example, pass all output files and directories through a pipe ...

Being of a trusting nature, I tried 11.4 thinking that perhaps by some miracle it would be better than 10.24. After one screenfull of total confusion about what the changes were between left and right window panes, I am now switching back to 10.24. I gave it the benefit of a doubt, but doubt turned ...

Sonik_C -- Thank you for saving me the time and effort of trying the new version. I am resolved to staying on 10.24 forever.

Thank you Zenju,

The old Windows 7 device has disappeared, but there are still two Windows 10 devices in the list, and I don't know which is the active one. If I mark both as removed, and then reinstall the software, will my Session configuration files be preserved, or am I going to have to reload ...

Hello,

I just upgraded my OS to Windows 10. (I know... I know... bad idea.) Well, what's done is done. At least I can run Turbotax again.

When I visit the FFS Home Page to check my status, I see that I have consumed 3 FFS device allowances:

Screenshot_2020-11-03 FreeFileSync.png

Rolling over ...

Ooops, my bad! I realize now that I should have pointed to the location where I keep my custom sounds INSTEAD of copying them to the resource directory. !!!

Hello,

This is no big deal, but I thought you should be aware of it.

I like to replace the default Notification sounds with my own.

However, when I reinstall FFS, these sounds disappear and I have to reconfigure them.

Note that the globalSettings file is correct. However, the Resources directory ...

Below are 2 listings of the identical directory structure using version 11.2 (top image) and 10.24 (bottom image). ... except for 2 files that snuck into view when switching the software. The 11.2 version on the left is "noisy" and mis-aligned. My eyes dance around and I find it difficult to come to ...

Is 11.1 supposed to have addressed the view issue?

I apologize for being negative, but ...

IT IS WORSE THAN IT EVER WAS!

What is the problem? Why not just restore the old 10.24 code and enable these new crazy whitespace views and confusing representations as options that can be selected if ...

@thirl88 -- thanks!

I've seen various ffs_tmp errors at times in 2 different scenarios:

1) (as Plerry just said) The security ACLs or rights are not permissive enough in the destination folder or specific files. Windows security settings can get out of whack, and Microsoft doesn't provide any easy to use templates or ...

You could experiment with creating multiple pairs, varying the Include and Exclude filters. Set Include to select a set of files based on a wildcard, and Exclude to omit any files within that set that you don't want to copy. Depending upon how many destination folders you have to configure this way ...

If I understand the issue correctly, I think this is not what any synchronization or backup program is supposed to do, which is to preserve order and enable recovery. Your destination is organized in some ad-hoc fashion without clear rules where files should be placed, nor where they would be ...

In conclusion, I think that given the amount of time the Freecom drive has been in service, there was plenty of opportunity for some undetected event to cause the problem. I am 80% confident it was an unsafe removal; 10% confident that some buggy utility wrangled the metadata, and 10% confident that ...

Hi again Woody,

Perhaps there was a glitch as you described.
Since it would be almost impossible to reproduce an error like this, it's all speculation.

Do you know for sure that your problem ONLY affected the date/time stamps? Or could there be errors in actual file content data? A problem ...

Hi Sam,

This might be a little easier because you don't have to delete anything, and it doesn't disrupt the list:

You could try to use the synchronization settings funnel filter to change the Include/Exclude filter for each pair. In the middle column, click on the funnel. (NOT the big funnel at ...

Woody,

Perhaps one time, after the files were updated, the drive was removed from the XP system without using "Safe Removal".

Is the File System NTFS? I wonder if it used to be FAT32, and you used an old version of the Microsoft "CONVERT" command to convert from FAT32 to NTFS, and there were some ...

Hi, Any software that modifies dates/times would be suspect. Do you recall over the history of those files, ever mounting the volume or accessing the files with an older OS, poorly built version of Samba, an exotic Linux VM, etc?

Some utilities such as BeyondCompare and FolderTimeUpdate can also ...

Reply to jdaniele --

I apologize for misinterpreting your question.

My answer is subject to clarification by Zenju:

You cannot download previous versions of the Donation Edition.

If you need to go back, you should have saved the downloads instead of deleting them. It's always a good idea to ...

All the earlier versions are here: https://freefilesync.org/archive.php

Or from the main page ( https://freefilesync.org/ ) you can click on the "Archive" button beneath the Download button.

I actually don't want to be able to customize anything. Let's not talk about aesthetics, colors, icons, and other things from the other side of our brains. Basic functionality is the main issue. Performing a comparison and seeing a bunch of white space with vertical lines, wondering where they lead ...

Yes, Plerry, if only it were possible to differentiate the legitimate ones from the bogus impostors or those that have been compromised by ill motives. One cannot trust Google after finding out that Google Plus was a wicked back door that only the elite few knew how to open. I think that was ...

Flat view with a horizontal scrollbar is good. Why is it neccessary to fill the panels up with whitespace when there is a deep directory structure or long pathnames? When I view the results of a compare, I like to see where I am, not be left wondering in some esoteric cloudy white space.

You could be right; perhaps I am paranoid. However many of these alleged search engine crawlers are spoofed because all they have to do is create fake USER_AGENT and REFERRER server variables to get past basic security measures. Many ignore robots.txt. Recently, bots pretending to be Baidu and ...

Hi,

"when you reach the FreeFileSync download page" ???

Anyone can post something that claims to be a FreeFileSync download page. What was the page you experienced?

Instead of whatever Google or Bing thing you stumbled on, just go to https://freefilesync.org/ so you don't get slobbered all over ...

Please disallow bots to be members of the forum. They are not going to contribute anything and they will scavenge our souls:

Registered users: Bing [Bot], Dot [Bot], Google [Bot], Semrush [Bot], Subere, Yandex [Bot]

Every time I login there is a different list of dastardly bots logged in. Why ...

Hi,

I just have one question, very simple. What was wrong with the version 10.24 display in the first place, that caused it to be changed? Was there a PROBLEM with it? If there wasn't a problem with it, then why was it changed? If there WAS a problem with it, then please, explain to us all, what ...

Please just reinstall the old flat format. I tried version 11 and I can't decipher its meaning. I am back to 10.24 now.

On Ubuntu, check to see if you have ACLs configured as well. I'm not familiar with administering Ubuntu, but I am aware that they have some form of ACL protection in addition to the traditional "rwxrwxrwx" permission mask. It's enabled by specifying an option in the /etc/fstab file or mount command ...

Which OS are you running FFS under? One or both? How are volumes from 2 OS's made available to the system running FFS? Is the drive shared between both systems? Do you physically switch the backup drive from one system to the other? If so, then permissions could be your issue, and unfortunately I am ...

Hello,

I am one of the complainers about the new main grid layout in 10.25.

One think I do like about it is the "sticky" folder name that remains on the top line if you scroll down into a large directory listing. However, that's not enough to convince me to re-upgrade. I'm back running 10.24 ...

Hi,

I strongly recommend that you block the bots crawling around this forum:

As reported on the login page:
In total there are 20 users online: 6 registered and 14 guests
Registered users: BLEX [Bot], Google [Bot], JDB, Semrush [Bot], TAC109, Yandex [Bot]

Most of these are disreputable spyware ...

Try deleting the Recycling Bin on the DESTINATION DRIVE (not the source). Perhaps it will be called $RECYCLE.BIN. Then before running the next sync, make sure that you have /$RECYCLE.BIN/ in the exclude list. I've encountered a weird issue in the past when a file tried to overwrite a directory name ...

Awesome, thank you. Sorry I didn't find that post when I searched.

Hello Darth, Sorry for my delay getting back to you. I don't know why the forum notifications didn't work.

I believe that my USB data corruption was actually caused by flaky USB 3 hardware and buggy driver code; perhaps exacerbated (and not CAUSED) by the increased load induced by setting higher ...

I have to drop back to the previous version.

I have many deep directories, and mostly I just see whitespace now after running a COMPARE. It's very confusing to attempt to determine what the differences are, and what's going to be copied or not.

Perhaps some people like the new layout, but I wish ...

Hello,
Sorry if this has been answered before, I searched the forum and couldn't find a specific answer.

What is the method used for "Compare Content?" i.e. Bitwise binary vs. CRC vs. MD5 vs SHA1, etc.

I prefer it to be Bitwise binary because then you can waive comparing the remainder of a file ...

Hello,

Adding my experience here --

I have created encrypted volumes using VeraCrypt -- https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html

It works very well. VeraCrypt is a spinoff from the TrueCrypt project that was relenquished by its original developers.

One nice aspect of VeraCrypt is that it runs on ...

I apologize for not understanding the question fully and expanding this into a broader topic. I don't usually try to be a pompous buffoon, but sometimes it turns out that way! Sorry, netnet.

I'll add my results with VeraCrypt to the other post that Plerry referenced.

-John

Also, I agree that 8 hours is too long for 57 GB. Are you backing up to USB-2 sticks or some other slow media? Are you adjusting any priorities or CPU affinity in Task Manager? What else is accessing the target "H:" at the same time? Is the target drive one of those IBM/Lenovo Uni-bays (or whatever ...

Did it actually take that long after it completed? I have found that the time "Remaining" numbers are always wrong, but resolve to more reasonable numbers at the end. I've seen it jump around, reporting numbers in the range of hours, days, or minutes while watching it for just 5 minutes. But that ...

Thanks Plerry, that explains all the scenarios very well.

@netnet -- Unfortunately it's really not as simple as you describe. One of the beauties of FFS is that the synchronized target is accessible outside the program. By implementing proprietary encryption within the program, it would become more like a walled-in backup solution rather than an open ...

FYI, for the encrypted drive test, the target drive will have 2 partitions:

1. A small UN-Encrypted FAT or FAT32 partition containing several installable distros of Veracrypt, perhaps the past 3 versions for Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X. Also to include the "free" version of FFS and a 30-day trial ...

Hello FreeFileSyncers,

I am also concerned about the security of the target files, not with cloud backup, but rather with external HDDs, because they are so easy to swipe (steal).

I can't speak for Zenju, but my guess is that modifying FFS to perform file encryption and user/password management ...

Hello,

There have been other discussions of this in the past. There used to be a configuration option called FolderAccessTimeout that allowed FFS to wait for idle disks to spin up. I can't recall whether it was per folder pair or system wide. The parameter disappeared, and now it just defaults to ...

Hi, Sorry, I think what I am looking for is the MIRROR mode of synchronization already provided!

As long as it doesn't modify the LEFT FOLDER!

Apologies for spinning your wheels.

-John

Hi,

I'm trying to determine if I still have any stale ("orphaned") target files when peforming a sync using "Update >" after changing the Exclude filter.

I hope that when I add a directory to the "Filter Exclude" list, that the next time I synchronize, all the excluded files will be deleted from ...

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