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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 job co...

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 ass...

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, su...

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 t...

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 with th...

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 app...

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 ...

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 desired? ...

@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 t...

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 restor...

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 affecting...

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 the ...

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, an...

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 twe...

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 keep pri...

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 intenti...

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 Yande...

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...

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? It ma...

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 tha...

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.