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Retested to confirm direct batch scheduling options... Started fresh: - Deleted all FFS related crontab jobs - Using FFS, deleted the GUI and batch configs: Main.ffs_gui, Main.ffs_batch - Rebooted system - Configured/saved new GUI and batch configs: Main.ffs_gui, Main.ffs_batch - Using FFS app, test...

Do you have gnome-schedule installed?

Over several days, I tested both: */1 * * * * DISPLAY=:0 /path/to/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync ${HOME}/Desktop/SyncJob.ffs_batch */1 * * * * export DISPLAY=:0; /path/to/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync ${HOME}/Desktop/SyncJob.ffs_batch Neither executes the scheduled FFS batch - no log is generated, no files a...

gnome-schedule (GS) is not available as a package with Debian - not sure if this is true for all Debian based distros. GS was removed from Debian December 2015 with version 2.1.1-4. I have a workaround to eliminate the use of gnome-schedule (GS) and the "X application" option to create a t...

CrowZ/Devuan v2 64 bit Openbox DE so of course had to create menu entries... Also running 10.12 standard on LM19.1 32 and 64 bit - On the 32 bit system there wasn't a problem with 'machine_id' (MID). But that's likely because its 'date modified' was in June of 2018 and actually has a value so I susp...

When I first tried to run FreeFileSync 10.12 "Donation Edition" on Linux, I got the error: Installation files are corrupted. Please reinstall FreeFileSync. Cannot open file "/etc/machine-id" . Error Code 2: No such file or directory [open] The fix - create an empty file named &qu...