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Does your PDF in the cloud contain an "Illegal" character in Windows? If so, you have to rename it

I would try disabling that option and trying again

When you created the Task, did you select "Run whether the user is logged on or not"

Plerry is correct. When an item does not yet exist on a side, it is additionally indicated by displaying a blank line item

If you find this to be a common occurrence with software, you're the problem

Change your sync type to "Update"

It's not disingenuous at all. Being able to drive a car carries its own responsibilities and general knowledge just as well. You don't have to be a mechanic to be expected to know when your car is out of gas and how to fill it up. Space management is a basic skill to have when working with computers ...

This doesn't seem possible for FFS

I mean, it kinda did by saying there wasn't enough free space. Also, that is a task that should be done by whatever/whoever manages storage devices. In this case, you'd be able to see the drive was full using File Explorer as well. FFS isn't a storage management solution, and it's best for software ...

Recycle Bin or restore points
Run something like SpaceSniffer on it

Usually bad USB connection for an external drive or the drive is failing

Sounds like a failing destination, whether it be connection, software, are hardware failure

And yes, at least that is how I am configuring my multiple RTS sessions across multiple computers. You could also probably put shortcuts to the configs into the startup folder, so you only have to update one configuration without having to copy/overwrite a second one

Did you watch the video on the "Tutorials" page? It shows saving the configuration first and then dragging the configuration itself into the startup folder

You don't want to open RTS on startup, you want to open a .ffs_real configuration with RTS on startup

FFS/RTS don't wake the computer up, they lack the ability to do so. This would have to be done via Task Scheduler or another method

"Actions -> Show log" shows you the log of the current sync. To view the most recent log for a sync, click the icon in the "Log" column for the corresponding sync config.

That setting changes it for FFS globally though, so every sync will be affected, just be aware

You want to compare content for just the changes, which requires a full content comparison to know what changed, which means this isn't possible.

RTS simply kicks off a CMD command-line, which is running your FFS config. The log will be with the other sync logs

Or to make sure that if the destination file is different to always use the source file. Kevin Cl, 10 Mar 2025, 11:30

That would be using "Mirror" syncing

This website is the only official source supported by the dev though, so what would be the benefit of this?

Try ignoring errors for this sync. You could disable the 'lock' files by modifying the FFS XML file, but that's more difficult than ignoring these errors if it gives you the option

You are trying to write to a read-only location

Been a feature for years and isn't related to RTS, but rather your FFS configuration. FFS doesn't change anything on its own, so somebody was clicking in the configurations settings

You are talking about two different things. Reading/writing every byte on the disk is referred to as a "refresh". This functionality is best done at a hardware level, not a file-system level. Spinrite was and is still a fairly popular choice for this, but access is lost during this since it runs at ...

https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/smb-share-recycle-bin-options.116523/
Or use versioning instead

Windows registry queries will probably be your best bet

Is it greyed out because it is already selected?

That is already the current behavior. The stop button is more of a 'request' to stop. Any active transfers will finish first