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2) Who told you to use multiple threads for a single drive? No one here did

If I want to sync '\\192.168.1.202\media' with '\\192.168.1.202\storage' (both shares are on the same drive); how can I avoid using more than one thread?


Just leave the parallel thread settings for each location as ...

2) Who told you to use multiple threads for a single drive? No one here did

If I want to sync '\\192.168.1.202\media' with '\\192.168.1.202\storage' (both shares are on the same drive); how can I avoid using more than one thread?

A separate shared folder isn't necessarily a separate drive.

FreeFileSync strives for excellent performance and is undeniably very fast, but using multiple threads to the same drive doesn't always yield performance benefits (in many cases, the opposite is true).

FreeFileSync groups folders based ...

When the source or destination path is a unc path (to the same NAS in this case) the ip address with the first subdirectory is shown in the "parallel file operations" dialog.

This means that when a session consists of multiple folders pairs pointing to different subdirectories on the same nas, a ...

If I have a file with a size of 10Mb in the source folder and a file with the same name in the destination folder with a size of 8Mb I can see that FreeFileSync will copy 10Mb to the destination folder but I can't find anywhere that the destination folder will grow with 2Mb (after the sync process ...

You can use the filter boxes at the bottom of the compare window to only show certain actions, that will also show you how much space each action if going to use/free

And where can I see how much space each action is going to use/free??

In the statistics is mentioned: "total bytes to copy" and ...

I was referring to the difference in free discspace before and after the synchronization process has run.

For example if I choose to delete files permanently and the synchronization method "mirror" is selected:
If the size of a source folder is 1,5GB and the size of the corresponding destination ...

Is it possible to add a column for every folder in the overview pane with the additional size that the data that will copied will occupy in the destination folder?

I can find information concerning the amount of data that will be copied to the destination but that is different from the additional ...