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My apologies for the long hiatus; my family-caregiver duties have been even more demanding recently. To cut to the chase, this appears to have been a Windows 10 issue. Having gotten fed up with accidental disconnects with my external USB backup drives, I began using a 16-port USB 3.0 hub, and becaus...

A quick but important update: First, I've been accumulating more data sets on my spreadsheet (and more columns for more non-FFS things my FFS slowdowns might correlate with). Second, I very recently made a couple of fluke observations that might obviate the need for testing very much longer: In the ...

Thanks for the tips about timers and determining uptime. (I used a CLI utility called Gammadyne Timer for the timer and just looked at Task Manager > Performance > CPU > bottom panel for the uptime!) Instead of clicking on a different listing, if you were to Quit FFS, then restart it, & at that ...

First, I created two Windows command scripts and two voidtools Everything GUI search strings that list the contents of the 62 folders in my 31-folder-pair batch job (the biggest batch job I'm currently using). In each pair, one lists folders and subfolders only, and the other lists folders, subfolde...

@therube: I really appreciate your reply and am sorry I didn't spot and respond to it earlier. (I'm a full-time family caregiver to an elderly parent with serious medical problems and don't have a lot of spare time and energy for "my own stuff"! ;-) I'm grateful for your input and will fol...

I'm not a programmer, unfortunately, so I don't have a very good idea of how to systematically look for bottlenecks when performance issues like this come up. That said, I do have some newish observations: • When my computer is fresh off a reboot, and no foreground programs have been launched (with ...

INTERIM UPDATE: I don't yet have enough data points to say much useful about GDI handles, other than that my "big" batch job seems to show a little over 500 handles for FreeFileSync x64 in Process Explorer shortly after a computer reboot, and, other things being equal, over 1500 handles wh...

You can check "handles" with a program like ... Process Explorer ). * * * * Thanks! I already have Process Explorer on board and will use it to look at FFS's handles the next several times I run FFS — both immediately after a reboot and after Windows has been running for a while. I apprec...

[T]he best solution would be to use filter settings instead of folder pairs. First, I really appreciate the prompt response! I would love to be able to use filters ( especially exclusion filters) instead of "too many" folder pairs. Unfortunately, my "100-folder-pair" batch job i...

I've made a somewhat bizarre observation over the past few months, running my standard backup batch jobs from FreeFileSync's GUI. Let me explain: I'm currently running Windows 10 21H1 and Windows Defender. I have 24 different FreeFileSync batch jobs that I use to back up my computer's data files and...

That strategy doesn't work for new donors who need a version that came out prior to their donation.

DISCLAIMER: It's been over two years since I set up my current collection of FFS batch files, so my recollection may be a little rusty. If my idea is off the mark, that's the reason, and I apologize in advance. How about just making a copy of your "daily" backup batch job and renaming it w...

I think this is a worthy suggestion. I have had to "downgrade" to an older version of FreeFileSync twice so far: once because of a change in where log files could be saved, and once because of a significant increase in lags and hangs when a new configuration was selected in the more recent...

Thanks, Zenju. I apologize for not spotting this in earlier posts. There's an easy fix for false-positives in SUMo, once you're certain that the flagged program is in fact up to date, and your earlier posts confirm that it is.

My install of FreeFileSync was updated this morning to version 11.8, but still being flagged by my update checker as "out of date." Checked the properties of the FreeFileSync.exe and RealTimeSync.exe and in the properties/details window both are shown as 11.7. Can this be fixed? The same ...

After FFS 11.8 for Windows is installed, the FFS and RTS executables in the Bin subfolder are properly identified as version 11.8.0.0 dated 2021-03-03, but the referring executables in the parent folder are still identified as version 11.7.0.0 dated 2021-03-01. This is causing SUMo (and possibly oth...

DISCLAIMER: This is a complete shot in the dark from someone who is still a beginner at Linux, who is a rank beginner at Samba, and who hasn't yet used OpenMediaVault at all (but is considering it!). If I'm 100% off-base, I apologize in advance. Does Samba on OpenMediaVault perform as expected with ...

To put it more accurately and safely, just click the minus symbol next to the folder pair you want to disable, and do NOT accidentally save changes to the modified batch job when you're done. If you don't maintain backups of your FFS batch jobs, this is actually a little risky. Additionally, if you ...

I don't understand how I could have overlooked that setting! Maybe it's because I usually edit the GlobalSettings.xml file directly and never noticed the NotificationSound tag. Regardless, this will make my batch-job troubleshooting less tedious and more efficient, so thank you!

Running a manual "Compare" in a batch job with lots of files can take a long time on older/underpowered computers with big mechanical hard drives. (I've had Compares that took nearly ten minutes to complete.) When that's the case, users will usually want to switch to some other task while ...

This suggestion was briefly mentioned in a previous post, here: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6262&p=20677&hilit=disable+folder+pair#p20677 Being able to temporarily or durably disable individual folder pairs in a given batch job from the GUI, without doing manual surgery to...

@zenju: I have a friend who uses FreeFileSÿnc to automatically synchronize data files on his two home computers, using RealTimeSync tasks. He recently suffered a power outage and the UPS for one of his computers failed. As a result, the computer in question was powered off without an orderly Windows...

The revised release of 10.6 appears to have fixed the problem. (I didn't get any warnings or errors when running any of my system-drive/clone-drive batch jobs.) Thank you!

Again, my strategy for rapidly recovering from a dead or corrupted system drive involves using Macrium Reflect to periodically clone my Windows 7 system drive and using FreeFileSync and RealTimeSync to keep user data and select configuration data on the clone drive up to date between clonings. (Done...

No, I'm pretty sure that one of the changes in 10.6 has had an unanticipated, unwanted side effect and that folders with identical paths that are on different drives are mistakenly being identified as being on the same drive. I have essentially the same problem as Andy Wright. I have one local prima...

Thanks, bimaloy30. This is *kind* of what I ended up doing, albeit by digging around manually rather than using find and grep. (I'm still at the Catfish-beginner level of expertise when it comes to searching.) Incidentally, your reply triggered my very first FFS forums notification email, so that pr...

My .desktop contents: * * * And I've placed freefilesync icons in useful places: * * * * Thanks very much for this, bgstack15 -- I said I was stupid! (Well ... at least when it comes to Linux; for Windows, slightly less so.) The sample FFS .desktop file and icon locations will be useful references ...

Once again, my apologies for the long delay in getting back to you. I finally diagnosed and fixed my Internet connectivity problem, but irrespective of that, I don't seem to be getting notification emails when someone replies to a topic I've posted in. I've double-checked and reset my FFS forum noti...

My apologies for the long delay in responding, Zenju. After a technical change by my local broadband monopoly, I began having terrible Internet connectivity problems that I'm still trying to diagnose and fix. I see the log files as potentially revealing metadata, like an individual's phone-call hist...

My initial post was probably a case of "too long; didn't read." Let me give it another try. Batch jobs can target different "classes" of files: * Administrator/Root (e.g., system configuration files) * All Users (e.g., "public," shared data files) * Individual User (e.g...