FreeFileSync Forum

xCSxXenon, thanks for your advice. But I think I gave PC 2 at least full access. I shared the partitions of PC 2 by allowing full access, changing and reading for everyone in the properties of the partitions in the permissions.

Synchronizing files and folders works fine with FFS, which is what I ...

It was not my intention to speak the program badly in such a way that it is unsuitable. On the contrary, FFS is a wonderful program with a very intuitive interface and a lot of work put in.

I also understood that FFS in this matter is ultimately limited to the rules that Windows dictates, which is ...

Zenju, thank you for your quick answer, but I don't understand your answer, especially not in relation to my question, which is actually clear. In which case should there be no difference?

So do you think that the synchronization of symbolic links from one PC to another PC (where both PCs are ...

Thanks for your tests, Gianni.

I also tried your tests. The result was, when starting FFS with administrator privileges, also the same as with you:

Synchronizing symbolic links to a USB stick as target worked fine. By the way, synchronizing within the local hard drive also works as a target.

Only ...

Gianni1962, I didn't understand your post, was that a question or a hint about my synchronization test?

Be that as it may, I'm trying to explain my goal in order not to get us wrong:

I'm sitting at this PC (PC 1) where the directory "C:\Test" exists. In the folder "Test" there is a symbolic link ...

Example:
Left Folder: "C:\Test\SymbolicLink"
Right Folder: "\\OtherPC\C\Test"

I started the program with administrator rights and this time I tried to copy a symbolic link (instead of a hardlink or a NTFS junction) from my PC to another PC in the mode "Include symbolic links -> Direct".

Zenju ...

Thanks for the hint Gianni1962, but I already tried it and also a few times before.

I get the error message "Error code 1314" regardless if I run the file "FreeFileSync.exe" as administrator or not or in which combination I mark the 3 boxes in the options.

However, the setting "Include symbolic ...

xCSxXenon, thanks for your answer.

But asked again to be on the safe side: Does this mean that FreeFileSync is not able to copy a hardlink directly from one PC to another PC?

Hi,

I have checked "Include symbolic links -> Direct" in the synchronization settings (so that only the hardlinks themselves are transferred).

If I then execute a synchronization (variant: Mirror) I unfortunately get the error message "Error Code 1314: The client lacks a required right ...