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OK... "you cant because it doesnt work" !!
Having un-ticked the box it now, finally, WORKS :) :) :)
Thanks to all for your help

sorry...when you say I cant, are you saying I cant do it or that it cant be done?

still having some issues with RTS...the (should be red) icon in the system tray shows grey and has a message that it is "waiting until directory xxxx becomes available" and obviously sync is not happening

I have re-arranged the folder list and proved that it is not any particular folder causing the ...

Finally got this to work properly - it starts per user and only runs one session

I decided to try and resurrect this as I believe it should work as a system task
A (long suffering) colleague suggested using NETWORKSERVICE rather than SYSTEM but again it simply doesnt work....
It does however work perfectly if I start RTS once I am logged in to windows so I believe the arguments ...

all working now after re-installing and creating a complete new batch file

I have set up versioning with last"x" days set to 60
versioning.jpg
and it all works fine, moving old and changed copies of files to the relevant folder on my NAS drive
I was hoping that, after 60 days they would be deleted from the NAS but that doesnt happen

Have I assumed incorrectly how this ...

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Thank you again for your prompt response and advice
I have now managed to get it to work on all user accounts as attached

I THINK these were the issues:
The inverted commas may have been copied & pasted wrongly - possibly from an Outlook email
There was a space in the arguments line where there ...

Thanks again for your quick response and advice....problem is I DO need it to run all the time and have several users on the PC hence SYSTEM should be the ideal solution

It seems to work if I set it as my user account but not if I set it as system - which is what the guide suggests ......

I meant two instances in task manager as here

oops, made a bit of a mess of that - my apologies...I AM triggering RTS - I posted the wrong pics from earlier experimentation!.... I have also moved the file to another location (again posted incorrectly)....
This is the argument box content
"D:\Misc_Updates\__daily backups RealTime.ffs_real"
3 ...

I have been running a nightly file sync for a few months, called from a batch file that is in turn triggered by a system task which wakes the PC (the batch file later triggers an Acronis backup task when FFS completes) and it all works fine

I recently attempted to create a task to run FFS in ...

I do have a gigabit network

Now I have the paid version I have tried the performance tabs and it certainly speeds things up apart from the one large Acronis.tibx file that I am copying between NAS and an external drive but never mind, I can live with it as it's only run once a month.
What would be the optimum setting for the ...

I have selected versioning / time stamp file and am sending old versions to a folder on my NAS - this works much better than windows file history !!!
I cant find what these boxes are for ....

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I have set the first one to 365 days in the hope that it will keep the files for a year.... or ...

as I UNDERSTAND it....parallel file processing or whatever it is called only works if you have lots of files to backup as it effectively equates to starting multiple copy & paste sessions at once to utilise the available bandwidth, in my case I have one large (Acronis .tibx) file so that doesnt help ...

OK, thanks.....but why would windows copy and paste of that file be SO much quicker....

Just donated and it worked without issue
you pay via paypal and receive an email with a link to the donated version

** CHECK YOUR JUNK FOLDER for that email....that's where mine ended up !!

now running the donated version :)
how many parallel files should / can I use ?

windows 10 64bit..all fully up to date

...I can confirm I am also using the free version as I only use it maybe once a month to sync between NAS and external USB drive (as a 3rd backup :) )

aha...in that case I would suggest that is not enabled.....

Good question..... if you could explain a bit more what that is and how I can check, I will

I use this to sync files from my NAS to an external USB3 drive
One of the files is 1.2Tb and, even with fail safe turned off it only shows around 12meg/second.....if I use windows copy & paste it runs at around 90meg a sec....why so slow???

oops...my mistake....I have set it to mirror left to right so I can now see it is only advising that there is a file on the right but not on the left
sorry !!!

When I double click the saved batch file in my documents (PC TO NAS.ffs_batch) it appears to run the program in the background....
When I open the program manually and double click the same saved file in the left hand configuration column it displays up a new document to sync and I then click ...

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