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Ok an update: I narrowed it down to an issue in handling of ntfs drives in the latest ubuntu lts (20.04), kernel 5.4.0, using ntfs-3g FUSE driver. Creating any file with ":" and "|" etc on these partitions returns EINVAL. Occurs with any program such as rsync or system calls, lib...

All previous versions are available. See the 'Archives' button at the top of the main window. Thanks a lot. I have an update: I'm so sorry, my issue of dealing with these special chars at least appears to stem from my recent upgrade to Linux Mint 20 with kernel 5.4.0-42. I tried the latest ver 11 a...

I think FFS creates temporary files ending with "... ~<session>.ffs_tmp" for synching then moves them to the original file name when successful. So just from my debugging, it copies from your source to this ffs_tmp at the destination directory, then it moves from ffs_tmp to the original (b...

Current version 10.25 can no longer handle ":" and "|" and probably others as indicated here: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7494&p=25264&hilit=filenames#p25264 This is a change compared to previous version which could handle any character the filesystem a...

Thanks for the quick reply. I feel reassured from knowing that at least

Hello, I came to this post looking for exactly the same thing. I really like FFS but I too think the lack of checksums is a security hazard, especially for Linux binaries. The other OS's have signed installers that provide some mitigation, and even more so from virus scanning that is automatically d...