FreeFileSync Forum

For what its worth, I reinstalled the gigabit switch, and freefilesync did not work, whereas many other freeware sync programs did. I gave up on FFS which was a shame because when it did work it was great. I am very pleased to say that portable version 5.3 works perfectly as earlier versions used to...

Just in case someone else has a problem like this, it turned out to be a
gigabit switch in my network. Put in an old 10/100 switch to try it and
everything, including ffs is working like it used to. weird but im glad its
sorted.

To prove it wasnt just the folder that I was trying to sync to I made a "test" folder on the xp machine, and shared it. I tried to sync 6 files from a folder on the win7 pc to the xp pc. FFS correctly identified the difference between source and target, but crashed when sync was selected. ...

What other information do you want?

2012-02-28 15:41:56 PST
Do you seriously think I have an answer to that?

You make me glad ive sought some help here, what a wonderful response (NOT)

Now i find if I use FFS to sync from my win7 pc to another xp pc on the
network, that xp pc will then sync ok to the pc that win7 pc wont. I have not
found any other faults on access or read write ability anywhere else on this
network?

Why will free filesync copy 3 or 4 files across to a network pc, but not say a
dozen or more?

is there a limit on how many files can be in a folder ? Would really like to
continue using this software

I now learn that if I attempt to copy 1 file at a time, instead of multiple
files it works

2012-01-16 05:47:02 PST Sounds like a network issue. Checking directory existence over a network can take an insanely long time, making the app seem like frozen, if the network is not reachable. With regards to your statement above, FFS does search for and find the directory that I wish to sync to, ...

My network is serviceable, all tasks except ffs work as per normal. I have used various network analysing tools which reveal no problem. The network shares are in order. DirSync pro will sync to the folder FFS wont, and so will vice versa, and create synchronicity? With respect if these 3 other sync...

Obviously no help available here?

oh by the way, if I let the program sit for a while after it decides not to
work i get an error "THE SPECIFIED NETWORK NAME IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE" which
is strange because i used FFS to browse for it????
Incidently vice versa syncs to the xp folder FFS wont?

Hi, Im having difficulty with version 4.6 when attempting to sync to one of my network pcs. Im trying to sync from a win 7 pc to a xp sp3 pc. The network had been a little flaky some time back until i increased the irpstacksize on the xp pc. If i try to sync across the network it tells me the files ...

Thank you AWJENKS, unlike Zenju response, yours was accurate and concise.
Thanks again

Hello, Ive just installed version 4.0 and now i have a very ugly looking free file sync. In older versions i had approximately 45 files showing in the grid on my display. Now I have 15 per page and the grid lines are miles apart. There is also a huge ugly icon in every grid box for the type of file....

Gee thanks but as I said wtf how and when?

Hi where can I find info on how copy security permissions work, and if and
when I should use it? Thnks

Hi, thanks again for responding. This unusual behavior occurred immediately after upgrading to the latest version. I have tried an experiment, I copied (overwrite) with teracopy all 52,000 files from my D drive to the nas box, which took about 4 hours. Now when I do a compare everything shows identi...

Thanks for the response, let me see if I can be more specific. I have a folder on my D drive of my win 7 32bit home p pc that contains about 13,000 files, and I have used FFS to duplicate to my NAS. FFC does this with no issues and a compare immediately after the sync shows everything equal. The pro...

Hi, Ive recently upgraded to v3.18 and it seems to be a little different than before. If i sync files and folders between drives on my pc, or across my network pcs all is good, however if I sync a folder of around 40,000 files from a folder on my d drive to my dlink nas box, it works, but if I go ba...