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... I forgot another thing I do. I have an external NVME inside of a fire/water proof enclosure that I leave connected 24/7. It is encrypted with BitLocker and I only unlock it to run a backup with FFS. My FFS config automatically re-locks it after completing. I don't do any auto syncing with it, so ...

... if syncs are automated or the attacker can perform them manually. I keep a drive on hand for a 100% backup of my NAS data. It is encrypted with BitLocker, without the key stored online, and remains in a dock that I only power on for the duration of a backup. I do this once a week or so, it's very ...

... if syncs are automated or the attacker can perform them manually. I keep a drive on hand for a 100% backup of my NAS data. It is encrypted with BitLocker, without the key stored online, and remains in a dock that I only power on for the duration of a backup. I do this once a week or so, it's very ...

... be coincidence or maybe they needed a weekly restart anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just had to reformat one of my external SSDs. Basically brand new, NTFS, BitLocker encrypted, just unusable out of nowhere. Tried different USB ports and cables, since those are much more likely than anything else. Nothing ...

... the software.
2. Option in setting "If more than 50% of the files are changes request password"
3. Ability to add password for destination like BitLocker.

Here is the work flow. Lets say you want to back up a folder. You can encrypt the drive with bitlocker to require write access. The sync ...

... to syncing so I force closed the app, deleted the lock files and tried again with the same result.

I have run chkdsk /f on the drive and there are no problems. Bitlocker is not activated.

Secondly all of my other drives work so is this a defective SanDisk drive or is there anything else I can try?

... that it is indeed FreeFileSync that cannot write to three confirmed working drives due to the .smbcredentials access problem. They are all BitLocker encrypted, if that makes any difference, but it's natively supported by Ubuntu. Anyone had an issue like this or think they know what might be ...

... a samsung USB SSD drive. I also have realtimesync running but not accessing the seagate drive.

Windows event viewer reports some errors for "bitlocker driver" in relation to the seagate drive - timeouts - however, bitlocker is turned off for all drives.

bugcheck info is
param1 0x0000012c ...

... on 13.5/Windows 11.

My steps up to here:
• RTS is running and saying directory monitoring is active
• The USB is plugged in and unlocked (it's a Bitlocker drive, but it is unlocked)
• The monitored drive is referenced by name ([USB Name]\)
• Command line calls a batch file on the root of said drive ...

Sorry, you are right. It turns out I had EFS enabled too but given that I don't have anymore the decryption key (.pfx file) I cannot retrieve the files.
Thank you for answering, i appreciated.

Files are not encrypted with BitLocker, only entire volumes. The scenario you proposed isn't possible

Dears,
I hope you can help me.
I had a Windows laptop with Bitlocker enabled. Before selling it I had copied a lot of important files that I had there using FFS to sync them on my external HD.
I did not notice in time that the files moved with Windows explorer got unencrypted while the ones copied ...

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... windows computer? If it has an encrypted drive like a lot of computers do these days you won't be able to mount it on your mac because of the bitlocker encryption on the drive.

Go to settings and then device encryption. From the search box on your taskbar type in "device encryption" If it's ...

... P attributes by right clicking on the file, selecting properties, then details. The P attribute is suppose to mean sparce file and I'm assuming Bitlocker tags the file as such as part of its compression/decompression process. Any data in the sparce space would only be meaningful to Bitlocker ...

... AL this can be removed via "free up space" and SmartSync
Copy File to my X: Drive - AP this is the problem; it appears to be an issue with BitLocker
Use FFS to copy from X: to OneDrive - ALP as you said, FFS does the same as copy, adding L to A. The unwanted P is being added elsewhere

What ...

... into OneDrive - AL this can be removed via "free up space" and SmartSync
Copy File to my X: Drive - AP this is the problem; it appears to be an issue with BitLocker
Use FFS to copy from X: to OneDrive - ALP as you said, FFS does the same as copy, adding L to A. The unwanted P is being added elsewhere

... worth bringing up again:

Would it be feasable to introduce an option to compress and encrypt target files and directories without having to use BitLocker or VeraCrypt (etc)?

For example, pass all output files and directories through a pipe, such as Zip/UnZip using I/O redirection, or incorporate ...

... asked for.

I only ask the developers for one thing: password protection when entering the software.

Any ideas to do: another user account, use BitLocker, etc. You can say the same about not protecting an encrypted drive or Google Drive without a password. So it's not about FFS.

Like having a ...

... which are changed in file size. Specially on small files, with only few bytes it looks worse, e.g. 693Bytes become 4791Bytes on my local ssd.

On my PC is an AV installed and Bitlocker was enabled. Disabling it on this partition didn't change anything.
Any other hint, what could cause this behavior?

Bitlocker is a fantastic method for encryption. Microsoft has offered it for a long time and can't just yank support for it. It has a key that will decrypt it. As long as Windows is accessible, the drive can be unlocked. VeraCrpyt(TrueCrpyt) is great as well! It is easy to use and can avoid encrypting ...

... program. My suggestion to use a disk volume encryption system allows FFS to continue what it does best, and to remain open. Solutions like BitLocker, EFS (defunct), and VeraCrypt only protect data while at rest. As long as the volumes or file directories are mounted and accessible, they can be ...

... Bloatware Model.

For directory based cloud sharing services such as DropBox and Google Drive, I think it might be possible to use Microsoft Bitlocker in the Mapped directories. (I am not very familiar with it, but I'll bet it's a pain in the neck.) Beware of locking into Microsoft products ...

Need help by using a Samsung S20+ that has to be backed up to an external HDD secured by Bitlocker. The HDD is unlocked at the moment. I get this error:
14:45:19 Fehler Die Datei "mtp:\Galaxy S20+Micha\Card\vm android\Screenshots\20200117_082833_1579261232945.png" kann nicht geöffnet werden ...

Hello,
I have tried two different USB flash both with BitLocker and without it. There is no problem when I copy-paste files via the windows explorer. The problem with the very slow transferring is when I sync via (my really precious!) FreeFileSync. E.g. 10 minutes are needed to sync just 2.5MB! What ...

I'm sorry. I was looking for it, but I did not think it was so thorough. Thank you very much for the quick response and the solution. For the time being, I have solved fix drive letters with Windows Disk Manager. I expect the final 10.4. Thank you very much for this useful program!

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Since version 10.3 RealTimeSync has bitlocker-encrypted devices (HDD, Peddrive) with Volume Name being monitored, it does not recognize it.

... your data locally on your harddrive - FFS to copy the data to any server.
That works quite fast. However, my Harddrive is already encrypted by Bitlocker.
I don't want to store my local data only encrypted by Boxcryptor because don't want to unencrypt my data twice and I'm not 100% trusting that ...

The version 9.8 has the same issue.

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My harddrive is BitLocker encrypted, may this be the cause? I don't see my system has any other difference from a normal system.

Hi folks,

everythings works fine besides one sync of a Bitlocker USB stick. I can access the stick via the Windows Explorer but while syncing I have stange/crypt filenames and every file results in an error 123. I can also select one specific folder or root on the stick for the sync, but when I start ...

... 3 files I am using FFS with.

I did not notice this behavior before version 7.0 but i am pretty sure I left out version 6.15, so I cannot tell you whether this behavior has been introduced with 7 or before.

I am using FFS to synchronize a local with bitlocker encrypted drive and a CIFS Network share.

If Bitlocker presents itself to the operating system as a regular volume, which I presume, then there is no reason this should not work.
Yes, thinking about it logically, Windows should present the filesystem the same way to most applications. The only gotcha would be performance. The "Compare ...

If Bitlocker presents itself to the operating system as a regular volume, which I presume, then there is no reason this should not work.

Newby here: awesome tool! Knocks the spots off SyncToy.

Q: I will be syncronizing with a removable drive which is encrypted using Bitlocker under Windows 7 Ultimate.
Will FreeFileSync handle this the same as if the drive was not encrypted?

(I've searched for an answer but not found any reference to ...

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