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Hello,
when I try to sync from my Linux drive to an USB Stick formatted with exfat I get the following error message:

"The file "/media/ulf/PC-daily-BK/documents/BDA_CometDECT__07_2020-c35d.ffs_tmp" cannot be written.
EACCES: No authorization [open]"

I can answer whatever I wand, the ...

Hello,
I spent some time with freefilesync today and found the "use database for syncing". What is that for? What is the advantage of it?
Thanks for explaining it to me

Hello,
smb does not work in all situations :(
I use Linux Mint and I have a Synology NAS in my network.
The easiest and fastest way to access the NAS with freefilesync is via SFTP.
sftp://user@ip-adress/directory
That works best for me.
If you want to browse your NAS-drives with a filemanager you ...

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I found the solution myself:
Under
Extras - Options - uncheck Copy file permissions

Hello,
ffs tells me that it can'T sync my folders and files from a ext4 filesystem (Linux Mint) to an fat32 filesystem (usb stick). It tells me to use chown (change owner) but that does not work on fat32, because fat32 does not know any permissions. How can I sync between these two filesystems? Is ...

Hello
I use the donation version of FFS. I have two desktops, running Linux and Windows and an dualboot notebook, running Linux and Windows, too.
The donation version tells me, that it can only be run on 3 PCs.
What can I do to run the donation version on all 4 "PCs"? How to "upgrade" my license ...

I use the donation version of FreeFileSync. The donation version allow to have 3 installations. So I installed FFS on my linux home desktop computer, on my Windows machine and on my notebook. But when I try to run FFS on my notebook, it tells me that I am only allowed to use 3 computers with one ...

Thanks for the hint. I just copied the file and renamed it. Then I tried to sync the new file, but it did not work either. The notecase program itself is closed and I can't find any lockfiles.

Hello,
I use notecase pro as my notekeeping program under linux mint 20. My problem is that the notecase database file notizen-2021.ncdb is not synced.
I tried to sync it with full name, not*, not*.*, *.ncdb but none worked. The source path and the destination paths are set correctly.
All other ...

Hello,
I am a grandpa :) in dataprocessing :)
In the early times when DOS reigned the world there were 2 ways to coy files:
- the well-known copy command
- xcopy command which was much faster
If free file sync uses the copy command, it takes time, because then it takes one file, copies it, takes ...

I'm stuck with this problem too!
I have to sync two SATA 3 SSD drives and FF only works with 6-7 MB/sec. which should be about 40 or so. How to speed it up?
Best regards Ulf

Thks for the fast answer
Ulf

Hello,
I use FreeFileSync on Linux (Ubuntu), version is 10.24
Is there an easy way to sync only one or two files in a directory? FFS only lets me choose folders for syncing.
My problem that there are 2 files I daily update and I need them on GoogleDrive. But the folder where they are located also ...