FreeFileSync Forum

> Where can I disable
In the FFS GUI under Tools / Options; the top left checkbox

Can you translate the Windows error(?)-message in attached file to English?

> I want to know how many device can use ? You can install FreeFileSync (FFS) on as many devices as you like (provided there is an installer for the OS of the device, or you are able to compile it yourself). You can also include as many devices as you like in any FFS sync configuration. > If using d...

Assuming your left and right base folder is the parent of all YEAR folders, you can add an Exclude Filter rule \*\*\*\*\ This should exclude all subfolders (and any of their content) at least four levels deep in the base location. The first *\ matches (at least) all YEAR folders, the second *\ (at l...

See the "Example: Complex filter rules with exceptions" section of the FFS manual page on the Include/Exclude Filter.

Likely you have left "fail-safe file copy" checkmarked (in FFS GUI / Tools / Options), as recommended.
This creates an overhead.
Even more so, when you would have set the VerifyCopiedFiles flag to True.

You can define multiple left-right folder pairs.
In its simplest form your first left-right pair could be
[DesktopPC] => [BackupLocation1]
and your second left-right pair
[DesktopPC] => [BackupLocation2]

It seems you are using the Update sync variant in the FFS sync settings (F8). As you can see in the FFS GUI, when hoovering your mouse over the Difference Categories and corresponding Action for that Category, "right side is newer" files are not overwritten by the older left-side files (&q...

It seems you could use the time-span filter.
Then simply define your time-span to start on the date of your previous sync

> What is the basis for your determination Not sure which determination you mean. If you mean my determination that your expectation based on the FFS manual page on versioning, section 2B is not correct: That is, as stated, based on the fact that despite that the FFS program does exactly what is des...

You wrote earlier This is what I expect to get according to the product documentation And the program does exactly what is described in section 2B . So, if you expect something else based on the product documentation , your expectation is not correct. Whether you find the behavior logical is another...

Local Filter settings are additional to (on top of) the global Filter setting; they don't overrule them. There are several ways to overcome your problem. The most obvious one is to convert the global exclude rule "*cache.*" into a local exclude rule "*cache.*" for the left-right ...

Your expectation is not correct. When not using local sync settings (the right of the two gear-icons in between each left-right pair), all versions of files in any of the base-directories are written to the root of the versioning location, or when using date-coded directories for versioning, to the ...

Like Rob_S said above, try running FFS as Administrator.

The last sync date should (according to other threads) be in the GlobalSettings.xml file. Location: see Expert Settings . However, that dat should not be relevant. Simply run your sync configuration. Even restoring your sync.ffs_db files is less relevant (or can even be a bit risky if the left- and ...

DumpStack.log is a file containing a dump of the stack (understand "copy of the memory"). It is generated by windows when there is a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) for troubleshooting. Pagefile. sys is a system file in Windows set aside for your computer's Random Access Memory (RAM), also kn...

> nothing is found on the Humax Is nothing found, or is nothing showing as needing to be synced? By default FSS will only show left vs right differences, resulting in some sort of proposed sync action. If left and right are equal, by default the Compare results will be empty. But by clicking the &qu...

Are you downloading from the official FFS download location in the Download FreeFileSync section (4 different downloads)?

Using the Include and/or Exclude Filter is the way to go for repetitive sync tasks. If you continuously need to sync different extensions: After running a Compare in the FFS GUI, you can show and sort by file-extension. Assuming you have the default FFS GUI layout, you can right-click in the Compare...

Possible it is. As "Advance Run" does it. And any program that run as "Administrator" can ... I disagree. What you are asking is that a program (in casu FFS) would be able to elevate its own rights while already launched with less rights. No program can (nor should be able to) e...

You can modify the FFS language in the FFS GUI,
via (English version) Tools / Language, (German version) Extras / Sprache

Perhaps an open door, but ...
Did you save the *.ffs_batch job at stake with Auto-close checkmarked?
See here.

Obviously that is not possible.
If whatever program would be able to elevate itself to Administrator / TrustedInstaller, that would pose an enormous security risk.

In the FFS GUI, first check in the Exclude Filter (F7) that you have not excluded any files that you want to be part of the sync. Then run just a Compare (no sync), and then check the results, particularly by making the result category "left and right are equal" visible (by toggling the &q...

Perhaps you can use the Time-span function in FFS, by only copying recent (left-side) files.

https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=realtimesync https://youtu.be/9KXo6yOhTWo Note that FTP does not support directory monitoring. But, as your sync seems to be LocalDisk => FTP it would be uni-directional, with changes only originating on your LocalDisk. There is no need to monitor the FTP lo...

https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=daylight-saving-time
This should also work for any (integer) amount of hours time difference between UTC and your local time

Assuming Window, go to your Task Manager (e.g. via Control-Alt-Del), identify your RTS task and end it there. Or, simply restart your computer. Obviously, if you have set the RTS task to autostart (via the autostart folder, or via the Task Scheduler), you need to remove the task from there before re...

On second thought ... There may be a possibility to do this with FFS, irrespective of the file-date being updated by the changes or not. In the Synchronization Settings (F8 in the FFS GUI), you can select a Custom sync variant. For the left-most Difference Category " Item exists on left side on...