FreeFileSync Forum

What grobbla suggested does work as described. Thanks for the great suggestion. From my perspective, there was one annoyance with it. The DOS prompt box running the CMD file showing up. A quick google search did not turn up a trivial way to hide the DOS window. So, I used a batch/cmd file to exe con...

Hi, Alternate Windows file managers such as Nomad.net or Total Commander allow you to run external utilities with command line arguments of file or directory names. I would like to define a utility button that runs FreeFileSync with the two directories active in the dual pane window as the arguments...

I just updated from ver 3.6 all the way to 3.11. On my first compare using file size and date method it reported all the files as needing copying. Looking more carefully I see that 3.11 version sees a 1 hour time difference between my Vista laptop and my QNAP NAS box running embedded Ubuntu LInux an...

I think the behavior for custom sync settings should be like for file filters. This way a user would only have to learn one behavior. That is, when you change the custom settings, exit FFS, restart FFS via the exe you get the last used settings. But, if you start FFS from .ffs_gui or .ffs_batch then...

Thanks, taking the idea and running with it. I look forward to trying v3.4!

I also agree that it will solve the confusion caused by the initially grayed
out custom sync settings button.

gby

Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. I can see how to click say Update in Synchronization settings and then click the Icons on the right to customize it to be the old Ver 3.1 "Two-way <->" choice. The issue is that clicking any other synchronization method wipes out the customization. What I wa...

The Synchronization settings dialogue box clearly shows a radio button for "Custom" and describes that as "Configure your own synchronization rules." I looked through the Help file and this forum and did not find any information on how to do this. Can custom synchronization rules...