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For the purpose in first post of this thread, you need to do a sync with database enabled at least ONCE in FreeFileSync before renaming files, otherwise FreeFileSync would unable to tracking name changes without the database.

The FreeFileSync database rely on file IDs in the file system to track ...

Please read the manual for the function of RealTimeSync
https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=realtimesync

If you are fine with manually running the file sync to update the changed file, using FreeFileSync alone would be fine, using RealTimeSync is optional since it is just a tool to trigger a ...

First of all to clarify, EX400U is a external SSD not HDD.

FreeFileSync have a small tools called RealTimeSync, that can couple with FreeFileSync to do automatic backup, but I prefer not to use it, will explain it as follows.

FreeFileSync have multiple modes to synchronize files, if you want the ...

In the case of files unknowly corrupted on one side, "Compare File time and size" would not trigger copying the bad files to the other side in a sync, becasue the modify timestamp are the same on both sides, and Versioning only store the old version of updated files and deleted files, it do not ...

You can make use of the file versioning function in FreeFIleSync, to keep old version of files to a chosen path with timestamp folder of sync time during file sync, this way you can still recover the uncorrupted files in the revision folder in case of files unknowly corrupted.

Manual: File ...

That is a great point. My current process is to test both files to see which one is working properly and keep that one. I have had one experience like this with FFS, where two files were different in the File Content initial "scan" where both of the directories both had a ".Trash-1000" folders in ...

The best practice to detect bit rot is to create a checksum file for the known good copy of files, and verify the files to detect bit rot, or create parity files for known good copy of files to check and repair corrupted data in files.

Since FreeFileSync main purpose is for files sync, I think it ...

viewtopic.php?t=11679#p45308 Zenju, 07 Apr 2025, 06:53

Thanks for the tips!

After donation you will receive a email with a link to the page to download the donation edition, there is no account of any kind other than that link, all you have to do is keep that email safe.

The download page of donation edition have a section to see how many devices was installed with the ...

Picture this, when a sync is complete and auto-close ticked, the sync dialog would close immedially, and there is not way to untick it after a recent sync other than racing with a quickly disappering sync dialog unticking auto-close, it would be be nice to add a short countdown like 3 seconds to ...

In filesystem like NTFS, each file have a file ID, reside inside the MFT file record of each file, no matter how you change or move the file on the same NTFS volume, the file ID would remain the same.

FreeFileSync use the file ID provided by the filesystem and store it into the database file sync ...

Hi,

Why the application does not show Catalan as language if it is translated?
Flag of Catalonia (if there is any doubt): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senyera

Thank you in advance

RAR file is not considered a convenient archive format since it need additional software like 7-zip to extract ...

Since I figure out the limitations of %ComputerName% and not a bug in the first place, I make it into a feature request instead.
Feature request - adding internal macro %HOSTNAME%

The exiting macro %ComputerName% is limited to 15 characters, when I use this macro try to make a single .ffs_gui that can be used to backup user profile on multiple computer, there was no warning of it would only use the first 15 characters of the Computer Name, and there would be a risk of ...

You (harryytm) never reacted to my initial reply about ComputerName ... Plerry, 02 Jan 2024, 12:11

Sorry I missed your post, the answer is "ASUS-VIVIOBOOK-".

Curious.
If you run HOSTNAME from a C: prompt, does that show ASUS-VIVIOBOOK-S14 or ASUS-VIVIOBOOK- ?

C:\> HOSTNAME


(Seems the maximum length can be >15, but certain features, like NETBIOS may not work as expect with longer length names.) therube, 29 Nov 2023, 18:08

Result is ASUS-VIVIOBOOK-S14

The name of my laptop is currently named "ASUS-VIVIOBOOK-S14", but when I use %ComputerName% as path it would become "ASUS-VIVIOBOOK-".

I am currently using Windows 11 (Version: 23H2) x86_64

Comparing the file content of huge amounts of files between 2 drives can be a lengthy process, there would be some situations that would be needed to pause the comparing operation, without having to cancel and then compare the already compared files over again.

Is it possible to implement this ...

I agree with florentine. These are log files. parsing HTML is difficult compared to plain text, XML, JSON, etc. Also the logs take up more space.

I manage a number of systems that generate different logs from various software. Initially I used to email the log files to myself and manually check ...

First of all, I think FreeFileSync is so far the best free(for freedom, not the price) file sync software, keep up the good job Zenju.

I've been using FreeFileSync on syncing FTPES folders for quite a while, I would like to use it for web development team to sync the website files between team ...