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Pardon the delay, I'm finally home and I am happy to report that 11.10 beta fixes it :)

Thanks once more M. Zenju

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@Zenju: I won't be able to test the beta for another week as I am away from home and thus from my workstation but the fix seems to make a lot of sense and I'm be eager to give it a shot as soon as I'm home. Thanks for working this out. Much appreciated!

@Zenju, same problem happened with latest 11.9 auto-update

You might also want to have a look at a CLI-only alternative: rclone

I left that as an exercise to you to find out :)

You might want to look at the program's source code or fire up FreeFileSync on your desktop and set the options you want and see how they are reflected the .ffs_batch file

freefilesync --help
The above command will provide you with all you need to know to run freefilesync (and .ffs_batch files) from command line.

.ffs_batch files are XML files you can edit with your favorite text editor. A sample is provided below.

Crontab Cheatsheet and Crontab Guru will provide ...

When you save your Batch Job, put a check in the "Ignore errors" checkbox. Errors will be logged but you won't be bothered with popup windows during sync

Actually, running the command below by itself breaks it:

sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

and it would seems that running it as root it removes the read permission of "others" for files within /usr/share/mime:

Permissions before:

4.0K drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4.0K Mar 14 20:21 .
12K ...

I tried to isolate a few errors in /var/log/syslog after trying the 11.8 .run installer again:


Mar 14 18:52:15 pop-os gnome-shell[3250]: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.#012This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
Mar 14 18:52:15 pop-os gnome-shell ...

@Zenju, just tried it with the current linux installer and I experienced the same desktop & icon problem. The /opt/FreeFileSync folder permissions are fixed though.

sudo apt install --reinstall software-properties-common software-properties-gtk gir1.2-gtk-3.0
The above commands finishes by ...

When you save your batch job, put a check in the "Run minimized" checkbox and you're good

I get what you are trying to do but I don't think its something that can be done with FFS.

Synchronized folder, one way or both ways, are expected to contain the same files located at the same path.

What you might want to look for is a duplicate detector like dupeGuru?

Good day,

I'm experiencing a very weird and serious problem when using Linux's version auto-update feature. It's the second time I experience this issue, the first time while auto-updating to 11.7 and just now, to 11.8.

The context:

• PopOS 20.10 (based on Ubuntu 20.10 aka Groovy which is in turn ...