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Is this working? Want to monitor a network folder on a nas via network drive.
Connection is smb3 over ethernet.

... of just copying it from the source location. This happens often on network drives, but also on my usb portable drive. I am using Windows 11 and FFS 13.6 (Donation Edition). ...

... of just copying it from the source location. This happens often on network drives, but also on my usb portable drive. I am using Windows 11 and FFS 13.6 (Donation Edition). ...

... (since two backups are running at the same time)? Assuming the D:-drive is native to the machine you run the FFS instance on, it will certainly ... HHD is a local, USB connected device, and the Hetzner Box a remote network connected device or service. In that case, they would at least not ...

Any ideas how to stop this from happening? itsame, 05 Jun 2024, 05:07

Where are the config files saved that were disappearing? Somewhere on the local drive, or network location, portable USB stick...?

I'm very sorry, I got it wrong, it's the drive of another PC in the network which has no bin for other PCs in the network, all is deleted directly and gone forever...

Can I change that? Can I activate abin for a network drive of another pc?

Hi,
If I copy files from a network drive (very slow WD-Cloud) to an USB Drive (local memory card) on my computer.
What setting should I set (in paralelle file operation) in order to get the best performance?
Thanks in advance, Yehuda yehudacoh, 28 May 2024, 19:00

Leave it at the default

Hi,
If I copy files from a network drive (very slow WD-Cloud) to an USB Drive (local memory card) on my computer.
What setting should I set (in paralelle file operation) in order to get the best performance?
Thanks in advance, Yehuda

... Joplin server and nextcloud and a bitWarden and it's running a mesh Network product from a company called tailscale. At the entry level it is ... a private mesh IP address then you should be able to in Windows map a drive letter to that server using that private IP address. That's exactly ...

... Joplin server and nextcloud and a bitWarden and it's running a mesh Network product from a company called tailscale. At the entry level it is ... a private mesh IP address then you should be able to in Windows map a drive letter to that server using that private IP address. That's exactly ...

... settings or figure out a way to get access to the Recycle Bin on the network device. It likely doesn't have one though Finally I managed to get ... In fact, it did not accept saving them on the external backup hard drive. Thanks to everyone and greetings from Italy

... settings or figure out a way to get access to the Recycle Bin on the network device. It likely doesn't have one though Thanks! It worked with my first external hard drive. But when I tried to repeat the same operation with my second external hard drive ...

... run it on Windows 11, Garuda Linux, and Linux Mint. I've used it across network to sync between NAS's, and PC's, with nary an issue. BUT ran into ... This is on a PC dual boot with Garuda Linux, I dropped 2 older storage drives in. The OS is on a separate NVME drive. The 2 old drives, originally ...

... at all, or if it was better to dynamically set if multiple jobs or network drive was detected OR perhaps good compromise would've been to restore original timestamp on ...

> BTW...is it possible to provide FFS a network address to my Google Drive ...

Click the Cloud button right of the Browse button behind your left and right base location(s)

... (which would be local to computer A, respectively B) with your Z-drive, rather than some "same source G". There may simply be differences ... same source because on both computers GD client is linked with the same network Google Drive. But it looks like that Google Drive clients on both ...

... computers: A-laptop, B-PC. Next we have one source which is a Google Drive source (source G) and a backup destination on a LAN network storage (destination Z). Using the same version of FFS on both computers with configuration ...

... frequently for some time now when a file needs to be deleted on the network drive and saved to the .bak backup folder on the hard drive. I have to manually delete or move ...

I have setup a local NAS with a hard drive attached to my router in one location and the same setup at a different location (different ISP and IPs). I have established a VPN between the routers with network shares for both locations. I have setup FFS to sync specific files across the ...

... install anything to do this, it's very easy to Google how to set up a network share on both macOS and Windows. Share the folders that you want other computers to be able to access, then either map them to a drive letter in Windows or mount them on macOS to use as if they were directly ...

> Then, on Windows, map a drive to the Mac SMB share. Run FFS and choose the appropriate drive letter. You can also access network drives without mapping them. In FFS's location bar type in the network folder address you want ...

... And YES, you can also use SMB. Mac supports SMB file sharing. Share the folder you want to sync. Then, on Windows, map a drive to the Mac SMB share. Run FFS and choose the appropriate drive letter.

... deleting of files from the source folder. My current setup is a local drive folder which does a custom sync to a network drive. In the software, the local folder is considered the source, but really the network ...

Hello, I synchronize the hard drive (mirror method) of my Desktop to the hard drive of my Laptop, every day over the network and everything works great. Regularly, I want to synchronize some folders from the hard drive ...

... FreeFileSync is used to backup local files to an external hard disk and network drive. The comparison of the data is based on file size and date, deviations are mirrored. ...

... button to enter the correct location of the required directory in the network drive. Comparison mode "Date and file size", synchronization mode "Mirror". ...

When trying to run a program to synchronize a local disk with a network disk, the program does not find changes in the local disk compared ... to copy". It seems that the program "does not see the network drive".

... once a week with Windows 11 Task Scheduler to do a mirror backup from 1 drive to another over my network. When the backup is complete, is it possible to get a log file of what FFS did? I like ...

... NAS mounted with native Windows method 3) folder B is stored on cloud drive (tested with GoogleDrive) mounted with vendor provided tool (GoogleDrive ... syncing again. The main issue with that is that causes unnecessary network traffic. As that issue is not replicated in (2) and (3) it could ...

... a part of "D://" means I want to sync in realtime a folder to drive D an then sync the whole drive D to drive P D is a part of my PC P is a network drive I'm doing this tho have a backup of "C://folder/folder" on a different ...