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Hi, I've used and continue to use FFS on Windows and it's working quite well. However, I recently decided to start using Linux. In particular I would like to use MX Linux and of course files backup is quite important.The MX Linux Package Installer has v.12.0.2 in Enabled Repos and there is a possibi...

Thank you for the answer.

I tried doing some real time synchronization using an existing .ffs_batch file that I added to the RealTime Sync window. My question is how can I STOP the real time synchronization for this particular batch file? I don't see anything relevant in the RealTime Sync window to cancel/stop it from contin...

it could be your drive-letter is changing and causes the issuePlerry, 13 Apr 2023, 08:37

Based on my experience with my drives in total, I have my doubts about this as a cause of the problem, but it's worth trying your suggestion the next time that it occurs.

I used the "Browse" option in Synchronization Settings. This error doesn't appear always. I wonder if it's a problem with my USB hub to which the external disk is attached.

I'm trying to do a mirror synchronization to an external disk and I get an error "ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE: A device which does not exist was specified. [DirReaderPlus::readDir->c000000e]" text.

Pressing "Retry" has no effect.

I did a synchronization earlier of over 100000 files and the comparison was done in a very short time. It seemed to me to be about 10 to 15 seconds. That’s pretty fast in my opinion. However, if there’s room for improvement then I’m all for it.

You can try the following: Xcopy with the /T switch

/T Creates directory structure, but does not copy files. Does not
include empty directories or subdirectories. /T /E includes
empty directories and subdirectories.

Not tested by me.

As a new (returning from the past) user I'm happy that there is some discussion about organizing the synchronization jobs. I have been using another synchronization software for the last few years where this facility existed and it did make my life easier as I have around 20 different synchronizatio...

Thank you. Hopefully I'll manage to see it in action once I finish my configuration!

I'm a returning FFS user after many years since I last used it and I'm now finding my way how to configure it. I created about 20 tasks for various purposes and I wish to apply versioning. However, I wonder if there's a way to keep the backed up files in an easy to retrieve way, per backup task, tha...

I would like to use FFS Pro to move files from a specific directory (including its subdirectories) from one drive to another. I would then want to delete the files in the source directory (and its subdirectories) and I'll create a second backup of the moved files from their new destination elsewhere...

Many thanks for the assistance!

Thanks for the advice. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I notice that the Mirror option will create the folder or ask to create the specific folder as you wrote, but not the whole path on the destination directory. I'm trying to do three things: (a) recreate the complete path of the source director...

Hi, I have the following question: Say, my source directory is c:\users\fred\documents\directorytobackup\ and I want to backup the files inside it to the directory d:\documents\. d:\documents\ contains lots of other directories. How may I synchronize the source directory (mirror it) to the destinati...