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Hm, perhaps that can be a feature request: to ignore trailing spaces with a checkbox in the settings dialog. bgstack15, 21 Mar 2024, 12:56

That would be the sensible thing to do.

Once again, my case is just one example among many. The unintended consequences concern other users.

Users don't make mistakes LOL I see you're one of "those users" What I meant, more precisely, is that users make mistakes, realize them, correct them, and learn from this process, thus becoming better users. If steps 2 to 4 cannot occur, it's not the user's fault. Yes, this might be exact...

So we're not free to call our files and folders whatever we want? That's so wrong, it's simply unacceptable. Misguided idea to prevent so-called user errors should remain an option and certainly not be imposed on everyone. Users don't make mistakes, only developers do. FreeFileSync is a file synchro...

FreeFileSync 13.4 ignores leading/trailing space when matching file names, according to its release notes. I can hardly believe my eyes. I constantly use leading spaces in file and folder names to prioritize them at the top of lists on macOS. I'm no coder nor developer and please people, don't patro...

For information and in case it helps, the sync that failed because of the ≠ character was between two computers running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 via the local network.

I also haven't noticed any problems so far with accented characters and other special characters, which I use routinely.

(I'll just note that FFS on Windows doesn't look to have any issues with not equal sign.)
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FFS not-equal-sign.png therube, 02 Aug 2021, 18:35

Have you actually run the sync?

The comparison with ≠ runs fine as well on macOS.

Example:
Cannot read file attributes of "/Volumes/MacBook Pro HD/…/config_EFI_20200525-18h48-idem précédent avec Patches ≠.plist".

ENOENT: No such file or directory [lstat]

Hi,

I can't get FreeFileSync (11.12) to sync files over 10GB (I think) via FireWire on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. It hangs indefinitely and I can't stop it or quit. It also hangs the Finder and the only solution is to force reboot.

HTH

Hello, Have you find the cause of this problem? I also have the following since a few days and the mentioned post doesn't help (I'm not on Linux but on Mac): Error Code 24: Too many open files [lstat] Error Code 24: Too many open files [opendir] I'm using FreeFileSync to synchronise a selection of f...

Hello ankoe, Have you find the cause of your problem? I also have the following since a few days: Error Code 24: Too many open files [lstat] Error Code 24: Too many open files [opendir] I'm using FreeFileSync to synchronise a selection of folders between my desktop and my MacBookPro, both running ma...

I just would like to chime in and add that most of the errors I had months ago have disappeared from recent versions of FreeFileSync. The last ones remaining are few and all pop up when backing up heavily protected macOS folders such as /Library or /System. They're most likely due to permission sett...

Hello, I'm new to freeFileSync (v10.10 under macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra) and I'm experiencing a lot of odd errors. For instance, when copying folders from an external FW drive to another FW drive, I got dozens of Error Code 1: Operation not permitted [rename] I don't understand why since I'm using an...