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Maybe the reason are wrong credentials to the qnap which are stored in the Windows Credential Manager on the W2012R2?

Do the programs you are starting ffs from allow to provide a working folder?
Maybe thats a difference?

Finally I found a solution by enhancing my Batch:

REM Prepare datetime variables:
FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5 delims=/. " %%a IN ('date/T') DO SET CDATE=%%c%%b%%a
FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/:,. " %%a IN ("%time%") DO SET CTIME=%%a%%b%%c

REM Run the job
FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe FreeFileSync\Jobs ...

In understand that, but please tell me, is it realy that hard to implement?
There is no backdraw as far as I see?

But I will respect your decision not to implement the requested feature.

However, thanks for investigation. :-)

You are right, I took a look and saw that "WarnUnresolvedConflicts" is set to "false".
So I set it to "true" and finally there is the mentioned dialog!

So far so good.

But when I now press the "Switch" button in this dialog, the gui starts up and then there also is no logging to file any more ...

In the ".ffs_batch" file I couldn't find anything regarding 'saving', so I loaded it by hand and called "save as ffs_batch", took care that "pop-up" is selected and saved it with a different file name.
After textually comparing those two ".ffs_batch" files (with Total Commander) there was no ...

That would be nice, but unfortunately I can't see such a possibility to switch to GUI.
I'm using version 7.1 of FFS and call it like this:
FreeFileSync.exe myjob.ffs_batch
In the configuration I don't supress the popups.
Please see the attached screenshots.

Hopefully I didn't misunderstand anything.

One more Argument from my side for implementing the logging (create log files) in gui mode:
In my synchronizations there often are some conflicts.
The reason is that I have some portable programs in the synchronized folders.

Those conflicts are not bad, but I would have to solve them.

So currently ...

@Wm: Please, what was your intention for posting?

Please?

Can't find the mentioned discussion, sorry.
Do you have a link?

I tried it now with Version 7.1 here in two different ways:
- I started FreeFileSync.exe by hand, opened the ffs_batch file and executed the sync.
- I started FreeFileSync.exe by providing "-edit" and the ffs_batch file by command line and executed the sync by hand.

None approach created the log ...

Whatever you want to say with your philosophic approach, even version 7.1 behaves like I described.

Is or will there be a possibility to configure ffs to create log files in gui mode in the same way as it is done in the batch mode?
For example with a "LogfileFolder" tag in the "*.ffs_gui" file?
I like to use the gui mode to 'see whats going on', but I would feel much better, if 'per sync' log ...

I'm still interested in that.
Couldn't you give me a hint?

If you find time, please try to explain it to me.

No reply here?

It is not possible to uncompress a gzip database file.

It looks like the file header is stripped, am I right?

Could you provied info on how to umcompress it myself?

Now I'm confused, sorry.
If understand a GUID as a nearly random value.
So if the GUID is newly created on every sync, how does FFS detect the proper sync-pair in the database if there are multiple sync-pairs stored in it?

Today I read our small discussion again, to recall your strategy regarding the database files.

I'm still interested in how this ID is build.
Does it belong to the machinenname and/or its MAC adress?
Or is it just something like a GUID?
Or any other algorithm?

I'm asking because I also plan to sync ...

I also run FFS from a portable stick.

I would vote to make this optionally configureable in the .ffs_batch or .ffs_gui files.

This could be done in the "<FolderPairs>" node for each defined folder there.

The default could be the current way, if nothing is configured there.

The possible options ...

When I use Alt-Tab keys at a running or finished synchronization, to change the focus to another application, I have no chance to reactivate the "Synchronizing/Completed" dialog without using the mouse.

By using Alt-Tab only the FFS main window can be (re)activated.
When I close this then by using ...

Hi.
As far as I remember a database file can hold info of more than one sync-pair.
In a different thread you wrote this:
"By each database having their own unique identifier, each sync-pair can be easily identified, just as if you had multiple database files."

This means that with each additional ...

Additional post:
I checked explicitely now, if just changes of file-attributes are
detected/synchronized:
As you wrote, it is not.

Hm, sorry, in my opinion this would be necessary too.
I could live with a lower performance. Accuracy is more important to me.
To clear that: If a attribute ...

The reason why I ask for that feature ist that I will have to synchronize
subversion workfolders and also local subversion repositories.
They rely on folder-structures with own logic.
So if they decide to change something in these logics like any attribute
handling or other, I just wanna be sure ...

Attribute- and datetime-changes of existing folders are not recognized and so
not syncronized also.

Seems to be a bug or not yet implemented feature.

Is it possible to add this soon?