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As written by @Zenju on 23 Sep, the issue is solved and he found a really good solution making this a 2 key shortcut and confirmation dialog that can be deactivated. A red arrow would not have been sufficient anyways as warning, and on top of that my understanding is that 'swap' is not a flag but an...

Thanks from my side as well - @Zenju, I appreciate your quick and proactive reaction to this discussion thread.

I still do not agree, a red text is no solution. How long would you expect that to show? The user's attention can be on a different screen program, but if FFS still catches a typically global F10 hotkey, that would be lost, if shown for a few second (and a persistent "swapped" makes no sen...

Or provide an option to be specified in %AppData%\FreeFileSync\GlobalSettings.xml
For my 'problem-case' it would be great if I could either deactivate the F10 associating to swap sides that way or even better to deactivate the blocking of other programs to capture the keystrokes.

I have the same issue. The problem for me is, that the swap button has the F10 key. I have a program that uses that as system wide shortcut, but FreeFileSync does block those (I guess you implemented some code that avoids keyloggers for SFTP password entries or alike). I had the same issue of a back...

If others have a similar use case, I found a workaround, unfortunately quite manual, but solves the problem: Create an additional configuration that Mirrors an empty folder to your target folder (potentially cloud) folder. Click on Compare. Then use https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=tips-and...

May I ask for an update on this? Did this request make it to the future feature list? I believe this use case will be important to many users with gaining popularity of cloud storage.
Thanks Kai

you are right, this is an alternative way to tackle this. If I had a checkbox to switch the "files older than XX" and "size" from "include" to "exclude" - that would solve the problem / use case too. Thus, there are really two routes to take, either a switch t...

I forgot to include a link to a different threat that was describing the exactly same problem in a different use case of syncing recent photos:
viewtopic.php?t=4414
There was no real solution offered 1.5years ago, though.

Dear FreeFileSync Forum, I have the following use-case: I do bi-weekly backups to an external harddrive using FreeFileSync. To reduce the time-span of potential data loss I also do FreeFileSync backups to a cloud-drive and have the filter there set to files that changed over the "Last 14 days&q...