FreeFileSync Forum

While the actual job took only about twenty minutes which was along the lines of what I expected, the estimates of time were all over the place and varied wildly. At one point the time estimate was two to three days. I’d then see it drop down to hours, then minutes, and then zoom back up. I notice ...

A few days ago I had made a lot of changes in my photo collection so I had an unusually long sync running. I came back after a while and looked at the progress dialog and at the top it said 100%. I clicked in the lower right to close it, but didn’t realize it still had some housekeeping chores to do ...

Nope, that will work fine! The db files hold information about the local moves/renames, but that is all. As long as you get the same drive letter, or you name them the same and use the special [] formatting, it will be fine


"special [] formatting"
I'm not sure what the pair of brackets ...

I’ve used FreeFileSync to back up my photos for a while to a single portable hard drive. I would now like to create a pair of alternating backups, i.e. back up to one hard drive one week and then a second the next week, then start over. Do I have to create a backup for each hard drive or can I use ...

Occasionally it seems like when I Synchronize FFS folder pair it has to copy the entire folder again. Is there a reason for this?