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Dear Zenju, sorry for bothering you again with a very old issue of FFS.
I was still using FFS 7.9 on my old MacBookPro with OS 10.9.5 (Mavericks) to avoid the alias problem. But now, I have a new MacBook with macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina, but I am considering to update the macOS to BigSur). Even the ...

Thank you for your prompt reply, dear Zenju!

Dear Zenju, can the default exclude filter be changed? How? Or do I have to correct the exclude filter for all my already defined and future configurations manually? Will the problem be solved with the next software update?

Dear Zenju, could you please comment on whether the problem with Mac aliases on extendedFAT drives has been solved in the newest FFS version? Up to now, I skipped all the updates since FFS7.9 because of this problem.

Dear Zenju, thank you for your prompt reply, that's really an excellent support!
Yes, FFS7.9 works also fine, but FFS8.0 creates non-functioning aliases on my destination drive which has extendedFAT format.
I have also tested a destination drive with "Mac OS Extended Journaled" format, there FFS8.0 ...

Source-Destination.jpg Dear Zenju, I skipped a few updates, but yesterday a switched from FFS 7.1 to FFS 8.3 on a Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). Now the Mac Aliases Problem is back again: While for FFS 7.1 aliases created new it worked fine, synchronizing with FFS 8.3 will produce non-functioning ...

I've added support for copying extended attributes, this should solve this problem. Let me know if there are any issues. Here's the new version for testing:

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Dear Zenju, sorry for the delay, I didn't check for ...

I really like FreeFileSync, however, since I moved from Windows to Mac, I have a problem when copying Mac aliases and I wonder whether this is a bug or whether I just do not use the proper settings. Here is what I am trying to do:

I use the FreeFileSync Mac OSX version 6.10 on two MacBookPro ...