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> a spinning disk drive is rather niche at this point in time

I might argue that ;=). therube, 16 Jul 2026, 15:46

partitioning is the important part of that. Zenju is right, partitioning a single physical disk into multiple volumes has gone the wayside

Yep, the only way to stop that is to format the drive(s) and re-copy all of the data to them so it's one contiguous set of blocks. Even then, there's going to be firmware and hardware choices that end up moving data around to seemingly random locations

If you used the built-in PC Reset, it's possible there is still an issue. Did the people that told you it was corrupted also handle fixing it? If so, I'd reach out to them for help. Otherwise, I would try reinstalling Windows from a flash drive using the Media Creation Tool directly from Microsoft's ...

the program to run is RTS and the argument you pass to it is the .ffs_real config

Use your 14.9 installation exe to install, it installs in-place without issue

Why did you reinstall Windows in the first place? Maybe you have an underlying hardware issue

I think 260 is the default Windows limit, but FFS either automatically or presents the option to disable path length limits during installation. I don't think can be "fixed" by FFS because the OS simply doesn't expose these items, if I remember correctly. The way FFS gets around this issue is by ...

Considering the I/O error message, I would start with the OpenDrive<->rclone connection

Your selected base locations are likely incorrect

What file system format(s) are you working with?

You don't browse for files anywhere in FFS, you browse for folders. If this is your first time using FFS, I'd recommend reading through the documentation.

Lots of links in the chain, so it's a hard guess

Performance likely won't be any different anyway

This could be done with a batch script or PowerShell script as well, and is more likely than it being implemented in FFS

I've been using IT since 2002, and this is the first time I've seen a program installed by default in the program's Files folder, rather than in the user's folder, have different settings depending on the user.

This is a bad practice.

This is how basically every system-wide program is ...

Is that truly syncing the two sides then? FFS is for syncing, and you are asking for something that is inherently no longer a sync

Also available in #8, clicking the icon in the second column opens the most recent log

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Yes, you clicked something you shouldn't have.
No, I don't know what.
Only be worried if you don't trust yourself, FFS has yet to be the cause of this in the last seven years I've been on the forum

Nope.
S8 Edge -> Note 10+ -> S23 Ultra
Never worked, I just use file size only to compare. Since I only use FFS for pictures/videos from my phone, it doesn't matter because the filename is the date/time for 99% of my files. If I care enough, I can go back through them and modify the metadata based ...

So it seems to be a MAC and/or Linux specific problem.

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That shouldn't even show files in the first place. On one hand, since FFS is just opening the OS's file explorer, I would suggest looking up how to sort by folders first for your OS specifically. On the other hand, it wouldn't even ...

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"Browse" panel is the panel where to specify the folder to work, accessible from Tools >Options.

There are four "Browse" buttons on this page. Which do you mean?

Is it even relevant? They all bring up the native File Explorer anyway, which lists folders first unless changed from the default ...

Thank you
That works perfectly
I'm embarrassed I didnt think of it myself :( chriskeeganhw, 17 Jun 2026, 10:25

No shame in asking for help, only for refusing it :)

I have seen many problems syncing to the G-Drive desktop app. What if you use the native G-Drive feature in FFS?

Proper backup strategy is the solution to that

But I found it's just as easy to delete them manually in a file manager from time to time as it is to create a Clean Profile Job with an Empty Source folder and run it against the Destinaton you want to clean with filters that Include "Only" the items you want cleaned from Destination.

FWIW ...

FFS is warning you because you are using a database to track changes. This adds the ability to detect this conflict, which is good, because then FFS would sync those files every single time you run it, even if they didn't change. Are these the only .run files in your dataset? Something on the ...

What is you make a change in FFS, but then something outside FFS makes another change? How does FFS handle such a scenario? On top of bloating FFS with a File Manager, not being able to guarantee the state of the files is reason enough not to implement such thing.

Well in that case the ...

Your first request can be achieved by using a custom sync, where you define the rules.
Your second request is irrelevant if you don't sync deletions anyway, but could still be a nice quality-of-life update.

What does the comparison results look like for those files?

Screenshot of filter settings?

How are you figuring out that FFS is deleting/copying instead of moving?

What is you make a change in FFS, but then something outside FFS makes another change? How does FFS handle such a scenario? On top of bloating FFS with a File Manager, not being able to guarantee the state of the files is reason enough not to implement such thing.

This is really only a problem if you are automating FFS or not checking the comparison results. FFS isn't a corruption finder, it's a sync tool. Proper backup strategy basically eliminates the hypothetical situation you described. If you use versioning and have it retain 3 versions, there would have ...

Well, technically your filter is including all files whose path starts at the root of the base location and starts with "01". The ending asterisk is a wildcard that catches everything, even subfolders, in each file's path. I don't know the solution at this moment, but that at least explains the ...

@switch and @xCSxXenon
Do these two scripts also delete destination-side items that are excluded per the Time Span or Min/Max File size function?
See e.g. https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11477

Mine also does NOT. There is no "Inclusion" option for those two filters, so there is ...

Eh, WinGet and package managers in general are pretty great. Being able to load/update with software-agnostic CLI is awesome. Couple problems with FFS being on WinGet though:
- Silent/CLI install is a feature not available in the standard/free version
- Licensed software in WinGet would have to be ...

It shouldn't be copying the entire folder every time. It will scan the entire folder, but shouldn't be copying. Performance issues for a hard drive directly connected are going to be outside FFS's hand

You can disable this warning - Under tools - Options - Show hidden..... - search the list and untick warning Hemps, 28 May 2026, 08:58

This is not a warning, it is an error, and it should be addressed instead of hidden

Standard version of FFS doesn't have any login credentials and can be installed on as many devices as you want

No. You have to specify the scope of each backup to each drive. What you want is disk management, which FFS doesn't do. Something like DrivePool sounds up your alley for this

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Anything in there helpful?

Since it shows an 'X' drive, I am assuming this is network storage of some kind. I'm guessing something is running on your system or that system that is holding the lock file for further processing. virus scanning, versioning, hashing, it could literally be anything, it's not mine to say lol
The ...

this didn't start until after I switched over to Linux from Windows.
Make sure your distro is up to date also then. Also, I've seen multiple times where rolling back NAS firmware fixes these issues. With you running Linux, it's really hard to say since the implementation of NFS could be a cobbled ...

You said left-to-right AND right-to-left in your post, soo which is it

Make sure your QNAP is updated. I've seen timestamps mismatching caused by NAS firware/software.

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