FreeFileSync Forum

Ah, I hadn't realized there are separate settings for the current sync job. I'll try again with that option enabled, thanks.

Okay, it looks like I found my own answer here - or rather, 2 answers.

1) FreeFileSync doesn't recognise symbolic links on the target. D:\Music samples\dfh_superior\ is a symbolic link to another drive on my machine, so FFS is seeing that directory as empty, trying to copy files into it when they ...

I'm trying to update a Windows 7 NTFS network drive to a Windows 8 NTFS local drive, and the Update keeps finding a lot of files that it thinks it needs to copy over as "Item exists on left side only". But the item does exist on the right side, with the exact same path. If I run the update then I ...

Thank you for your quick reply. I thought I saw a few small files that didn't
get written properly the first time with 5.4, but I could have been mistaken.
I'll report back if I see anything in future.

(Using Windows 7 64bit, writing to a Lacie Network Space 2 NAS drive reached
via \\ notation.)

I use the Mirror operation to take backups of my files, but today I noticed
that it was asking to overwrite files that hadn't changed. Further examination
showed that the files on the destination drive ...