FreeFileSync Forum

I am trying to imagine how FFS (or any other sync tool, for that matter) would be able to decide which (new) files to include and which to exclude, if not based on common characteristics like file extension or (part of the) path or filename. But thus far I have not been able to come with anything. D...

> How to setup a whitelist backup? Whitelisting sound synonymous to listing in the FFS Include Filter (instead of using the default Include Filter entry * (=everything)). But from your posting it seems you tried that and it does not work for you (or you did not make optimal use of the benefit of usi...

> Shouldn't ? the RTS be running a BatchDriveFtp.ffs_real rather then _batch? No, upon detecting any changes in the monitored folder(s) (if supported), RTS launches its command line, and here should launch FFS to run the sync configuration saved in the specified *.ffs_ batch file. An *.ffs_ real fil...

Perhaps you did not account for Daylight Saving Time.

So, you did not remove the FTP connected location (your top location) in the list of folders to be monitored by RTS.
Click the minus-icon in front of your FTP location.

> Make a description for each solution

This forum is not your servant ...

Ah, you mean in specifying your left-right base location?
In that case you can simply specify C:\Users\dub\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\ and its counterpart as your left, respectively right base location, and use an Include Filter entry of
\Version ??.?-J\
or
\Version ??.?-J\zh_CN\Caches

You can use the FFS Filter rules to In- or Exclude files and/or folders in your sync. The FFS Filter rules do not support Regular Expressions, but do support two basic wildcards, that may be sufficient to cover your example above. FFS filter rule entries are relative to your left and right base loca...

> How can I solve this problem? That depends on what you consider to be the problem. • If you consider the error message to be the problem, act as per xCSxXenon's reply. • If you consider the ftp protocol not supporting directory monitoring to be the problem, you can either use a different protocol ...

Having /.gvfs in your Exclude Filter will only exclude a .gvfs-file that is in the root of your left and/or right base-location, not if it is in any of their subdirectories. You need to enter either the correct path in front of /.gvfs , relative to your left-and right base location, or enter */.gvfs...

Simply RT(F)M.

For synching just a single file FFS may be a bit of overkill. But nevertheless: You can use the FFS Include Filter . Replace the default Include Filter of * (= everything) by the (path+) filename (relative to your left- and right base-location) of the file you want to sync. You can edit the Filter s...

> Why does FreeFileSync show that both files have changed?

Because the file-ID of both the left- and right-side file has changed compared to what it was at the end of the previous sync, as stored in the left-, respectively right-side database file.

It seems to be a long standing (and still unfixed) WebDav problem, making both Windows and Linux reporting the used and available space of the local disk.
See e.g. in Google or even previously in the FFS forum.

It depends on how much data in your cloud-space needs to be updated.
Also read this thread.

Further to my last remark just above:
As per the earlier description by Zenju (the author of FFS), your "Cannot determine sync-direction: No change since last synchronization" conflict is apparently considered to be of the 2nd category.

> And can't mirroring be a more destructive move than just UPDATE? Mirror and Update can both be equally "destructive" if you accidentally made changes (other than deletions) in the source location and then run one or more syncs. Only if you made accidental deletions in the source location...

Your problem may be self-inflicted. > I have set FileTimeTolerance to 0 ... The simplest way to "fix" your problem is to change it back to the default setting of 2 seconds, as apparently even required for FAT/FAT32 file systems . The "Cannot determine sync-direction: No change since l...

The "Both sides have changed" notification only can occur when using a database . In previous versions of FreeFileSync (FFS), by default the database was only used in the Two-way sync variant, in which it is mandatory. Since FFS version 13.x, the database is by default also used in the Mir...

There are people using a chisel as a screwdriver. Sometimes it works, sometimes they hurt themselves doing so. If you, Widowsky, being forwarned, do not want to abandon using leading spaces in file/folder-names (using a chisel as a screwdriver), so be it; at some time you will surely hurt yourself. ...

What is your Symbolic Link handling setting (in the FFS GUI Comparison (F6) tab)?
What file system is your \\q\ location? Not all file systems support reparse points.

I understand your request and why/when this would make sense. But, looking at your list, there may be an alternative. You have quite a lot of sync jobs that ran 82 days ago. If you always run those sync jobs in combination, you can define a single sync job that has multiple left-right location pairs...

Did you try using the Windows Task Scheduler?
There you can choose to run tasks based on a given time, but also upon given events, such as startup, login, logoff and shutdown.

@PjotterTheMotter
You seem to be one of those people only willing to accept a solution exactly along their line.
The author has indicated a perfectly workable method to deal with your "problem". But hey, it is not exactly along your line ...

As you noticed, I forgot to add the /w or /wait option to at least the first two start-commands in the batch script of my previous reply.
See e.g. https://ss64.com/nt/start.html

Do not add /w or /wait to the FFS On Completion command-line, when using that route.

It is only possible to Exclude files and/or folders (and their child-folders) based on their (own) name.
It is not possible to (automatically) Exclude a parent folder based on the name of any of the files or folders it contains matching a name or pattern.

If those tilde-files do not just start with a tilde ( ~ ), but with a tilde+dollar sign ( ~$ ) they are most likely remnants of Microsoft Office files, generally caused by improper termination of an MS Office application (e.g. a forced system restart). You should then be able to recognize the file e...

I don't know MAC, but if those packages/folders behave like folders in Windows, then just like in Windows FFS may simply not be able to retain folder modification timestamps.
See here.

If you want to run your left-right folder-pair Compare and Sync in sequence per pair, you can either • Run a batch/cmd file that starts your sync jobs in sequence, waiting for the previous job to end before starting the next sync job (via the "start" command). Something like start "C:...