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I realise its open source so I could have a crack at adding this

Having bought the Business Edition recently I would hope such proposals to improve FFS could be at least considered by the authors.
Anyway, going the open source path is an interesting idea, though I definitely have no time for ...

I'm not suggesting to modify the behaviour at all, simply to flag up a warning if the standard change propogation two-way sync will result in an older file being overwritten by a newer one by timestamp.

Hi, that's exactly what I hoped for, thanks.
As it is, I still use FFS but with extreme ...

I'm not talking about a scenario after Windows crash or similar disaster - nothing of that sort happened on any of my 3 computers but I still lost my data.

This would just be a half-measure at best I agree, but surely better to increase the chance for the user to notice that something potentially ...

Regarding the explanation - well, I try to believe this explanation.
Although, I don't believe that I could somehow replace my many newer files with older versions myself (' outside of FFS ') - I'm pretty sure this was not the case.

Proposal: Could there be a warning added such that in case the 2 ...

OK, but what is the logic of such propagation?
I'm struggling to see a reasonable explanation for the situation shown in my screenshots:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ChQBlhrWznAL2xsgLKzV9i-tMsN8Upei/view
How can this happen?
In my case described above, the 'propagation' had major destructive ...

OK, maybe just for me, but the update to 11.12 was a total disaster. I have restored most (all?) of my rewritten files from backups, but it was really unpleasant experience.

I tested some older FFS versions. But it was done after my restore, so the original state of files on disk is different now ...

yes, it's here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ChQBlhrWznAL2xsgLKzV9i-tMsN8Upei/view?usp=sharing

I have uninstalled FFS, installed v.11.5 and it shows correct direction of copying. Damned update...

I can't paste a printscreen here, so a textual description only:
- hover over the icon, I get CORRECT text "Right side is newer <-22.09.2017 10:31:02 -> 13.07.2021 16:50:06"
However, the icon showing planned action is the green arrow POINTING TO THE RIGHT, thus indicating that the left file is to be ...

Hi,
I don't know what specific setting would be of interest, so just a brief description:
- Select a variant: File time and size
- Ignore timeshift not filled in
- Filter - Some folders and file types excluded, hardly to do with this error?
- Synchronization: 2-way
I found I'm in BIG trouble now ...

Hi,
I have updated to v.11.12 today. I regularly sync my work D: drive with a USB drive.
Now, after Compare, FreeFileSync indicates it will update the NEWER existing files on my USB with their OLDER versions from my hard drive. I seem to have done this earlier today on my office PC and notebook ...

Update 2:
I tried to run FFS with elevated permissions and now the copy operation works. Obviously, this is not something I would like to do as a norm.
Any hints welcome
Best regards,
Vaclav

Some update:
I have tried to completely uninstall FFS, reinstalled the latest version. I created a new task to sync folder from disk D: and G: (the same drives described above) => All seems to work fine.
BUT opening the original .ffs_gui file, I get the same error "Cannot copy "....." to "D:....ffs ...

I've been using FFS for some time now without any issues. Suddenly, I'm getting a completely unknown (until now) error, e.g.: Cannot copy file "G:\data\abc.dsk" to "D:\data\abc~c89e.ffs_tmp" Error code: 5 Access denied [CopyFileEx]
Here, G: is a USB external HDD, D: is internal SSD in my desktop PC ...

Occasionally, I have files on both sides changed which results in file conflict icon, which I need to resolve manually. In most cases, I go through the list and select the appropriate copy direction based on the timestamp of the files. This is very inconvenient with larger number of files. Is there ...

I have deleted some files by mistake while having Recycle bin activated in ffs. I can locate them in the Windows trash but their original location is strange, e.g. for file originally located at d:\vq\Myfiles\abc.txt it shows the original location as d:\vq\RecycleBin.f5f4.ffs_tmp\Myfiles\abc.txt
Now ...