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To the extent possible, FFS does preserve the modification date. However, there are some protocols (e.g. some (S)FTP flavors) that simply do not support preservation of the modification date, or the implementation of some protocols is shaky (e.g. most notable the MTP implementation in quite some And...

Such connection between Laptop/Desktop and Android phone uses the MTP protocol.
And the implementation of the MTP protocol on quite some Android phones "sucks".
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What was your "Delete and overwrite" setting (Synchronization Setting, F8) That setting defaults to Recycle Bin, in which case you should be able to recover files from there, if available. If you changed that setting into Permanent, you only hope is a suitable recovery tool. If you changed...

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Using the File Time and Size compare option does FFS make consider files to be different if the file Time, the file Size or both differ between the left and right location. Every file that is considered to be different will result in a (proposed) sync action. Which sync action, depends on the sync v...

Or, probably even much safer, run your FFS sync under different user credentials (e.g. BackupUser) than your normal user (e.g. StandardUser), and provide only BackupUser with access (or at least write access) to E:\

> I can't find a way to post a screenshot in this reply

See e.g. here

Asked and answered several times before.
E.g. here and here

> Basically, does it monitor a folder and if there is any change, it would make THAT change but not have to scan/monitor the folder to do so? No! As also described in the RTS Manual page , RTS monitors one or more folders (and all of their subfolders) for changes, and upon detecting changes launches...

This reads like some tool on the destination computer accesses and modifies (or at least changes the modified date of) said 32 files after they are written there. E.g. some anti-virus software has the nasty habit of doing so. As you write it is always the same 32 files, for a start you may look into...

Probably, the dialog box is not from RealTimeSync (RTS), but rather from the instance of FreeFileSync (FFS) that was launched by RTS upon detecting one or more changes in the RTS monitored folder(s). FFS shows that dialog after completing a sync, if you did not checkmark Auto-Close when saving your ...

You probably defined your left-right base location(s) incorrectly for your "all 3" sync. If Source and Target are the (intended) parent of Sub1, Sub2 and Sub3 you should have a single left-right pair [Source] => [Target] OR you should have three left-right pairs (using the "+"-ic...

I suppose installing the Business Edition works the same way as for the Donation Edition. As xCSxXenon already wrote , you need to unzip the file you downloaded. That is: unzip all files in the zip-file into one and the same (unzipped) folder, and then run the installer from that (unzipped) folder. ...

For all clarity, todsandberg is asking for an extra Compare result category; not a modification/addition to FFS's Filter function.

How do you run the "automated task"? If you use the Task Scheduler (assuming Windows), by default your task is run as the SYSTEM user. In the Task Scheduler you can modify the scheduled task to run under specific user credentials, for which (if desired) you can change the default log-file ...

Note this is the forum of FreeFileSync (FFS);
not some general file-sync forum.
Please use a more suitable forum for questions and discussions that purely concern software other than FFS.

Obviously, you can use this forum to e.g. request FFS features by pointing to other software.

"Copy locked files" is a global setting and is stored in the GlobalSettings.xml file. The GlobalSettings.xml file and its location are user specific. You can simply create a separate user for which you checkmark "Copy locked files", and run the FFS jobs that require "Copy lo...

It sounds like the router-NAS does not (properly) support directory monitoring.
This is not unlikely, as it is not a full-fletched NAS.
Read the third bullet of the RTS limitations.

If you don't manage to get FFS launched by RTS, you can always resort to launching your FFS sync as a scheduled task.
Obviously, this may not run the sync "as soon as" as a change occurred, and may run unnecessary syncs (because no changes occurred), but at least the sync process will run.

This is not something FFS can do for you.
It sounds like a task you would need to write your own script for (e.g. CMD-, Shell-, VB- or Python-script).

But I even doubt it will work.
Just spinning a disk already causes it to heat up; reading the disk likely only causes little extra heat.

I don't know the reason for your approach. If e.g. the content of A is too big to fit just on B or just on C, you can also divide the content of A between B and C in a more structured way. Depending on what is on A and how it is on A, you may consider e.g. • If A is divided (mostly) in subfolders, s...

FreeFileSync (FFS) can not do this automatically.
But you can do it manually.
Run a Compare of A with B for a A=>B Mirror sync.
In the Compare result window select all files that FFS intends to copy A=>B.
Then right-click and choose Copy To and then choose the C-location.

In FreeFileSync (FFS), files that do not pass the Filter rules are not considered for any sync actions. So, if you set the Time Span to 1 Day, only files modified in the last day are considered for syncing; any files with an earlier modification date/time will neither be compared, copied, updated no...

Perhaps the Daylight Saving Time feature can help out here.

If you set the Time Span to 1 day (in the FFS Filter tab F7), does not mean everything that changed in the last 24 hours will be "downloaded" (possibly again), but rather that only files that changed in the last 24 hours will be Compared and considered for the need to be "downloaded&q...

There may be too frequent changes in all the RTS monitored folders combined. If that happens persistently, the Idle Time keeps getting reset and never expires. and consequently RTS never launches FFS. You can try reducing the Idle Time. Or use multiple RTS instances, reducing the scope of the monito...

Your proposal is remarkable. > then, ... , re-check all "considered not equal" files contents, assuring that they have in fact changed. The first Comparison (based on date/size) would already have shown the files are NOT equal, so why verify that based on Content? For such files, to become...

It seems you are running your ffs_batch file from the Task Scheduler.
By default, the Task Scheduler runs tasks as the SYSTEM user.
In the Task Scheduler you can modify the ffs_batch file scheduled task to run under specific user credentials

You can not change the location of the database files.
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