FreeFileSync Forum

Hi again. Not sure if the "custom post-sync script" is a note to yourself or a feature of FFS that I haven't discovered yet.... :-)

It's been a veeeery looooooooooooong time since I faffed with the FTP protocol myself (in my youth, although I doubt it's changed much in the past few ummmm decades ...

Ummm...well, ok, but it'd far better to make it preserve the permissions of the existing file(s) being overwritten, as not all files in the destination might have the same permissions. As I say, the FTP programs I use do that.

With the option you've added (thank you) I'd have to have two ...

It does the same with both FTP and SFTP.

Great tool :-)

One small problem I've found is that when overwriting an existing file over FTP the permissions of the existing file aren't preserved.

E.g. cgi files on a web server have to have permissions of 755 (read-write-execute, read-execute, read-execute) but if you Update an existing doit ...