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Overall, I like the FFS fail-safe copy feature and use it almost all the time. But there are situations when I MUST turn it off. When this happens, I would like to turn off the option only for the job that needs it, not for all other jobs. I don't see an easy way to achieve that at the moment.

In "Synchronization Settings", when using "Two way" sync variant (or even "Custom", sometimes) it makes sense to choose different option for the "Delete files" setting, for left and right folder in the folder pair.

In my case, I would like to delete permanently the files in the left folder and to ...

I would like the file time and size of all copied, deleted and replaced files to be added to the log (in addition to their names).

An idea how to improve the UI of FFS:

When one right-clicks the FFS icon in systray it shows a small menu with two choices: "Restore" and "Quit". The "Quit" is OK, but the "Restore" is a bit misleading. The "Restore" actually stops the active monitoring mode and switches to setup/configuration mode ...

I confirm, the problem is solved in FFS 10.9 Beta.

Hmmm, maybe the problem is that in this case I am using the "Variable Drive Letters" feature. And, on top of that, the [Yellow] volume currently is not mounted!

Screenshot: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/brC-eCzjNqQDfDXeNYMfGJsJzH4KFhHNWJ0yQN1eXunNr5-VfxuylrpLLasoQ0euRcw09zTdPJPHvIpSPKn08bCO-zAJtIsjP5Nmp9j3gcJD8WOsUv5mnstPvcyxQbB ...

I have FFS configurations with very long folder paths. In FFS version 10.8 the "Confuration Settings" dialog shows the full path of the left folder in each folder pair, in the column "Folder pair" on the left side of the dialog. In my case these paths are very long and occupy approx. 85% of the ...

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I am using FreeFileSync & RealTimeSync to auto-sync some folders on a USB drive to my PC hard drive. After upgrade to version 10.3 RTS does not get active automatically when I plug-in the USB drive. If I restore the RTS window from the taskbar and press the "Start" button, it gets active ...