FreeFileSync Forum

P.S. - In case it matters, I frequently run FFS batch jobs as scheduled tasks on headless NAS servers that I monitor from other workstations on the network. These tasks deal with up to millions of files containing many gigabytes of data, and often run for many hours. Hence my desire to be able to ...

Not exactly... In my specific scenario I normally have FFS set up to run as a scheduled task. Therefore there is normally no UI at all, in fact most of the time I am not even logged in on the machine where it is running. Since the tasks are scheduled to run whether or not I am logged in, there is NO ...

I think you missed that my request concerns BATCH mode. There is no GUI in batch mode, so there is no dialog.

FreeFileSync is a great program, and I have really enjoyed using it. However, one thing that could help a bit would be options to request some text progress indicators when running in batch mode. I suggest three possible options that could be used either in combination or alone:

1. Display messages ...