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Thank you, that seem to work.

I use FFS mainly for backup and archiving purpose. That means that files on the target drive may be overwritten but never deleted.

I have a few veracrypt containes that should always be overwritten by the source file. The problem is, that changing a file in the container does not change the ...

I would like to fix the problem one time and thereafter use the database option in order to be able to deteced moved files.

400 files are a lttle much to do this manually. Do you have an idea to overwrite the target files when a conflict occurs?

@Perry Suprisingly there are a lot more conflicts. E.g. the newest Tor Browser installs files with modify date in the year 2000. Is it possible to overwrite all 414 files with a conflict with the source file even if the target file seems to be newer?

@Plerry Thank you for the hint. Modified date for both, the source and the target, are in 2019. However, the target was changed 3 Minutes later than the source.

Hello,

II have been syncing a disc with another one in update mode since years. Today I activated "use database to detect changes."

Now, there are a lot of warnings that the file has been changed of both sides since the last sync.

I have no clue why, but in a lot of cases the target file is a few ...

Thank you very much!

Is it possible to switch it to ANSI instead? Whenever a file is saved on the debian homeserver, the filename seems to be Ansi encoded.

I have enabled the UTF-8 support in the config file but get still this error:

<td>Das Verzeichnis &quot;ftp://thomas@192.168.188.76/home/thomas/Downloads&quot; kann nicht gelesen werden.<br>
Unexpected FTP response. (-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 185608 Jan 28 13:27 FA Einzugserm�chtigung 2023.pdf ...

ftp> literal FEAT
211-Features:
UTF8
EPRT
EPSV
MDTM
PASV
REST STREAM
SIZE
TVFS
211 End
ftp>

I have changed the server settings, but there is still a problem:

<td>Das Verzeichnis &quot;ftp://thomas@192.168.188.76/home/thomas/Downloads&quot; kann nicht gelesen werden.<br>
Unexpected FTP response. (-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 185608 Jan 28 13:27 FA Einzugserm�chtigung 2023.pdf) Ungültige ...

After changing the file name, I got another error message on another file:
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Die Datei &quot;ftp://thomas@192.168.188.76/home/thomas/Downloads/FA Einzugsermächtigung 2023.pdf&quot; kann nicht gelesen werden.<br>
Die Zeichenkodierung konnte nicht automatisch erkannt werden: /home/thomas ...

Hello,

when trying to fetch a directory with a file with an invalid charset from an ftp server the whole directory is skiped. Is it possible to skip just the one file?

Thank you for the fast fix!!! How to get back to the donation version? Can I put the key file somewhere or should I wait till 11.29 is appearing on the donation page?

Done, the file FreeFileSync_x64.exe.17420.dmp is in the same directory.

Thank you very much. Have sent a link to the dmp files by mail.

Although the local version is installed, there seems to be no dump. I have sent the trace file to zenju.

Hello,

FFS 11.28 (64 bit) crashes during the sync phase. The app simply closes without any message There is no log file from today.

Windows 10
Phone: Xiaomi poco m4 pro (Android 11,MIUI 13.0.10) connected via MTP



How to fix that?

Thomas

I don't want them deleted at all. Only to add new files, but not delete files.

Hello,

why are files moved to a recycle bin if using the attached settings?
How to avoid that?

Hello,

I would like to realize a kind of evergreen backup

1) The target disk holds all files which once have been on the source disk.
2) If a file is deleted on the source disk it should not be deleted on the target disk
3) In order to avoid duplicates a file or directory which is moved on the ...

Hello,

I would like to remove dublicates. Is there a possibility to use FFS to delete files from the target directory if they are also in the source deirectory?

I have a kind of evergreen backup, that meens every file which is on disk A or where there in the past ist also on disk B. That means, if a file is deleted on the disk A, it is not deleted on disk B.

Now I would like that files which are moved from one directy to another on disk A it is also moved ...

Yes, exactly I would like to exclude everything in AppData except
\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\*
like explained in the manual:

Example: Exclude a sub folder except for certain files
Set up two folder pairs with the same source and target paths but with distinct local filters:
Folder pair 1; local ...

Hello,

I would like to exclude everything in AppData except some files/subfolders.
I tried it with the following Rule:

Include:
*
\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\*

exclude:
\Roaming\
\Local\
\LocalLow\

Nothing is synced. Why?

Hello,

during batch mode ffs seems to ignore my sync settings like file exclusions and versioning.

In order to be able to run it as an administrator, I start it by a symbolic link like this
" C:\Users\Thomas\Documents\Programme\ffs\SyncSettings.ffs_batch"

Any Idea how to fix that?

Hello,

I have created a special file backup HDD by ffs, which contains all user files of several image backups made during the last years. In order to make this searchable, I tried several catalog apps.

Surprisingly all app didn't index special directories like "Google Drive". What happens if the ...

Even if no completion action is chosen on the progress popup, freefilesync forces the computer into the standby mode. How to avoid that? The program was stated manually (not in batch mode).

Any idea how to avoid the standby?

Hello,

I would like to compare and sync in one step without an extra mouse click. It should be done in administrator mode and thereafter the computer should go into standby mode. How to do that?

The ffs bat files do not start the program in adminstrator mode. If the property settings of ffs ...

Hello,

how to avoid this kind of popup (see attachment). FFS is started as administrator and ignore error flag