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Yes, that is what I used to do but then MS/Google switched over to Oauth 2.0 secure authorization, and now there is no simple way to "emailmecopyoflogfile". I've tried PowerShell with Microsoft Graph API's but have not been able to get it to work - far more complex than Blat, that's for sure! I've ...

I have a need for extra data regarding my FFS backups (ie - EOJ dir lists) and would love the ability to either append text to the existing body of the FFS notification email, or to attach a (text?) file. I'd have no problem if, for practical reasons, there was a limit to the size of the file.

I ask because I'm looking for a work-around to send FFS notification emails with an attachment - as far as I know that's not possible.
So, I was hoping that if the command runs before the email is sent, I can add text to the FFS log file before it is sent as the body of the email.
Bottom line = I ...

SOLVED
In case someone stumbles on to this thread, the solution is to reset the folder attr to "read only". Who woulda thunk? Some more googling found this 6 year old post:
https://superuser.com/questions/806010/onedrive-subfolder-icons-keep-resetting

Yes, thanks, but I should have mentioned that I'd removed desktop.ini some time ago to no avail. I've debugged a bit more and its actually the XCOPY (in a .bat) I run at "job completion" (to copy changed files from the versioning folder into _ARCHIVE and _HISTORY) that appears to be the culprit ...

Attributes are consistent with all other desktop.ini files. Note that the desktop.ini file (attrs/size/contents/date) does not change by FFS's actions, somehow the custom icon is dropped without affecting the .ini file or the registry?!?

Images should be ok now, thanks for the heads-up.

I've used Properties>Customize to change several folder icons in Windows 10 (20H2), see below. The problem is, if the folder is in <Exclude> for FFS - and only when I run a backup - it will be reset back to the non-customized blank folder icon. I can watch it change as the FFS routine completes! If ...

All my backups are automated batch jobs, so those are not an issue, but I need to occasionally run them manually using the GUI to change/omit directories. Hence my (admittedly small) problem. I agree, it's an interesting discrepancy, and I don't understand why there are distinctive ".ffs_gui" and ...

Update v11.5 - I'm perplexed as to why FFS logs are not consistent between batch and gui backups, and that no one else seems to extract and analyze log data. I will resign myself to the facts and continue my work arounds, particularly since I believe that FreeFileSync is far and away the best sync ...

Update v11.2 - no "Info: Comparison finished" statement in the logs for "ffs_gui" jobs.

Update v11.0: gui/batch logs still different

There seems to be a difference in the FFS log files created by a ffs_batch job and ffs_gui job; the "Comparison finished" line is omitted in ffs_gui jobs. This can be a problem for some people (like me!) that use log files to create an aggregate summary report of backups. In my case, the key ...

The "Comparison finished" line is a great addition to an already amazing product; I use it to extract a monthly summary recap of backups from the Logs dir. But that line only appears in ffs_batch logs, not in ffs_gui logs, so I get no "items found" for any GUI jobs. Is that by design? If so, why are ...

I agree, and can only assume details will be available with 10.4 next month.

I have two requests associated with this question:
1) can we fetch the dynamic logfile name along with %logfile_path%? (it is not lastsync.log since 10.3)
2) if so, would it be possible to attach that log to an email, per ...