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by rtbaileyphd
14 Jun 2020, 16:14
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Macros in directory names, such as %weekday%
Replies: 4
Views: 1085

Re: Macros in directory names, such as %weekday%

I just upgraded a few days ago and this change caused a lot of problems. FFS started creating daily mirrors Mon, Tue, etc. instead of Monday, Tuesday, etc. and it took me a while to figure out what was going on. A better approach would have been to leave %WeekDay% alone and just add new macros %Week...
by rtbaileyphd
03 Jul 2018, 00:10
Forum: Help
Topic: sync.ffs_lock being created despite <LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false"/>
Replies: 5
Views: 2032

Re: sync.ffs_lock being created despite <LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false"/>

Thanks Zenju. You got it right. I was using the SYSTEM account for my batch job. I just changed the job to copy GlobalSettings.xml from my user account to the systemprofile. When I ran it I saw that the settings as indicated by C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync\La...
by rtbaileyphd
01 Jul 2018, 21:24
Forum: Help
Topic: sync.ffs_lock being created despite <LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false"/>
Replies: 5
Views: 2032

Re: sync.ffs_lock being created despite <LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false"/>

Everything was actually working through June 30. I touched nothing and it failed on July 1.
by rtbaileyphd
01 Jul 2018, 21:21
Forum: Help
Topic: sync.ffs_lock being created despite <LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false"/>
Replies: 5
Views: 2032

sync.ffs_lock being created despite <LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false"/>

I have a scheduled job that tries to mirror a folder from one drive to a USB drive overnight. It kept hanging because of a sync.ffs_lock file in the target directory. I edited the LockDirectoriesDuringSync line in GlobalSettings.xml to the following: <LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false&qu...