FreeFileSync Forum

Do you offer individual, paid support to solve this problem? I have tried with other compare settings (content instead of date & size) - but this takes 500 minutes, so that this does not solve our problem. And comparing only size seems to dangerous, because if I only change a letter in a text fi...

I have found a docu on FFS page "How can I record a trace file for troubleshooting file access errors?". I would like to start such a trace and report the output to you. As I am a linux newbie: strace COMMAND_TO_TRACE &> ~/Desktop/trace.txt Is COMMAND_TO_TRACE = path the FFS? After thi...

Yes and no: I have the latest firmware installed today. But it is from 2021, because my QNAP is "too old". Do you think, it can be something concerning firmware? And probably Mint had no problem with old firmware but Ubuntu has?

Update: if I copy a file manually (with Gnome Fileexplorer) from notebook to QNAP, last modified date it copied correctly. What does FFS different when copying files to QNAP?

Update: - if I do mirroring from notebook to sd card, timestamp are correct! - if I do mirroring from notebook to QNAP NAS, timestamp is as described above. So it must be something between Linux Ubuntu and QNAP - problem did not occur when using Linux Mint and QNAP. OR: On Ubuntu I am using latest v...

Does anybody have an idea? Any linux pros here? Why is "last modified date" of a copied file set to the current date - instead of using the date of the original file? In my case, using mirroring is no longer useful, because mirrored files are always newer then the original files... :-( Usi...

Hm, i don't think so - Ubuntu is set up fresh, no special software installed. Isn't the "last modified date" of the copied files not set by FreeFileSync? Or does FreeFileSync take the same "last modified date" like the original files has?

Thank you! It says, that the files on the right side are newer than the files on the left side. But as I have described above, the files are the same as on the left side - the files are copies of the files of the left side - they cannot be newer - they must have the same date. But they have not. I t...

I have been used FreeFileSync with Linux Mint for 1 year. Now I have changed OS - now using Ubuntu 22.04. I have recognized that FreeFileSync also copies files that did not have changed. Settings: - Comparison setting is "file & size" - Synchronisation settings: Mirroring Scenario: - O...

Wow, I thought the cronjob things would be a little bit easier. For me as a linux beginner, they were not :-( But with your help and another forum post, I have succeeded: 1.) I have uninstalled the flatpak version of FreeFileSync 2.) I have downloaded the run-file of FreeFileSync website and install...

Or other idea: would it be better to uninstall flatpak version and to install version of freefilesync website instead?

Thank you very much bgstack15 for this detailed answer!!!! I have found this line in .desktop file: Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=FreeFileSync --file-forwarding org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync @@ %F @@ This does not show me the path - or does is? It looks like there...

Hi Forum, I'm new in the linux world. I have installed FreeFileSync with GUI Application Manager of Linux Mint (flathub). Now I want to set up a cronjob, but I am not able to find out the path to FreeFileSync. Can you please help me - how can I find the place, where the Application Manager has insta...