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Great! It really works great, and transparent.
One suggestion, mark the local copy as read-only, so WinMerge (and others) give a warning when writing to changes to a temporary copy, that would be lost otherwise.

Great work and thanks for the swift implementation,

Kind Regards,

It seems to be able to list folders with a >'< sign in the name. In another test it could be, that it is stopping on a file with only an extension (e.g. >.project<). There didn't seem any other abnormal characters around the stops.
(And it was not close to be processing some of the files with more ...

I've recently found Bitvise SSH-server (free for non-comercial use), and it seems to work perfectly with FreeFileSync. It was also rather easy to setup.
Hope this helps someone.

Hi All,

I recently managed to get SFTP support working with FreeFileSync and my setup.
But external programs such as WinMerge can't cope with SFTP links.
Actually it generate links like: D:\data\sftp://192.168.....
Is it possible for FreeFileSync to make a local copy of the file, so external ...

Wouldn't this be a nice case for the SFTP connection ability of FreeFileSync?

Hi All,

What are my options to sync my disk over SFTP with respect to the server programs?
I've tried freeFTPd, although it was easy to setup, it won't play nice with FreeFileSync.
See also: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=649

To give you an idea of what I want to sync: 2 hard disks ...

Hi,

I retried with FreeFileSync 8.0, and the problem still persists.

Is there another way I can help solve this problem? (I'm not a programmer)

Kind Regards,

Hi,
Thanks for your quick response, and sorry for my delayed one (Sourceforge didn't sent me a e-mail on your reply :S).

These are the steps I took to setup FreeFTPd:
- (Download: http://www.freesshd.com/?ctt=download)
- Installed freeFTPd
- Disabled FTP & Enabled SFTP
- (Hostkey) I generated both ...

Hi All,

I'm trying to sync to data disks via SFTP using freeFTPd.
Although I can correctly browse all folders using Winscp, FreeFileSync (7.8) only seems to see only a few files.
I.e. the remote side is almost empty, and FreeFileSync thinks it needs to transfer almost all files to the remote side ...