FreeFileSync Forum

Thanks for the heads up on Syncovery. As a long IT support guy, cost is always a key factor but it's reasonably price even for the premium version.

Probably not as it's "dumb" in that it simply compares the the source and target files each run. It doesn't have a database like FreeFileSync to track file system changes.

I've tried them all. BC, Syncovery, Goodsync, AllSync, Syncthing, Synchredible, PureSync...🤷🏽

Actually I need something that syncs to SharePoint — which changes the file size of the uploaded files🤦🏽‍♂️

Sharepoint obviously. It's like you put your precious art collection in a store house and ...

Ahh glad I'm not alone. I was starting to feel paranoid when I kept been told above this isn't an issue/doesn't happen! Nowhere as nice an interface but good old robocopy can handle this situation with the /xc switch which ignores changed files: different file size but same name & timestamp.

Is that 500k files in a single document library? If so, then yes, you're going to struggle. I see varying recommendations for maximum capacity per document library but I recommend not exceeded 50k in a single library. SharePoint itself can handle more but OneDrive starts to struggle.

MS might limit ...

It's a fact - I've migrated 20+ systems from a local file system to OneDrive/SharePoint. It happens with them all. Documented here:

https://myce.wiki/news/microsoft-onedrive-for-business-modifies-files-as-it-syncs-71168/

And also here by me four years ago where I contacted Microsoft and they ...

Trust me, it's not an isolated incident. You will come across it at some point if you get involved in migrating data to SharePoint/OneDrive. It's documented here by Microsoft specifically "OneDrive adds additional metadata to Office documents after uploading, which changes the size of the file ...

Love FreeFileSync - used it for years. Even got last company to contribute. One quirk I've come across is around OneDrive and Office files. It's a known problem with all synchronisation methods including good old robocopy.exe. The problem is simple - when Office files are uploaded to OneDrive (or ...

I'm using FreeFileSync to synchronise a folder to an IIS FTP server which doesn't support the MFMT command. Therefore I've configured the comparison to run on file size which is fine for my purposes.

[Link to imgur showing config removed as I received a rather trite error about including links when ...