FreeFileSync Forum

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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 ...