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- 16 Jan 2024, 08:41
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Various errors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1297
Re: Various errors
1) The databases do not exist yet when you run any given sync for the first time, and are created during/at the end of running the sync (one on either side of every left-right pair). If, after you have run any sync the first time, you remove a databases (a sync.ffs_db file) on either side, "the...
- 16 Jan 2024, 08:22
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Bug?/FeatureRequest: Folders compared have DateModified updated on compare (not sync)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 786
Re: Bug?/FeatureRequest: Folders compared have DateModified updated on compare (not sync)
During/based on the Compare of the initial FFS instance, FFS decides which sync actions should be performed later, during the sync phase. A Compare performed by a second FFS instance on the (at least part of) the same location(s) is blissfully unaware of any impending sync actions of the initial FFS...
- 15 Jan 2024, 13:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1660
Re: Batch run configure
Note, that RTS does not have a (time) interval, but an Idle Time. Read the description in the RTS Manual page. If any new changes occur in the RTS monitored directories during the Idle Time, the Idle Time timer is reset. If there are too frequent changes in any of the RTS monitored directories, the ...
- 15 Jan 2024, 11:40
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1660
Re: Batch run configure
That's how you configure RTS, not an answer to my question how you start RTS.
- 15 Jan 2024, 10:46
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1660
Re: Batch run configure
How do you start RTS?
• Manually, e.g by double clicking the *.FFS_real configuration file?
• Via your Autostart folder?
• Via the Task Scheduler? If so, under what user credentials do you run the task?
• Manually, e.g by double clicking the *.FFS_real configuration file?
• Via your Autostart folder?
• Via the Task Scheduler? If so, under what user credentials do you run the task?
- 15 Jan 2024, 10:37
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Scheduler Batch File Not working
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1238
Re: Scheduler Batch File Not working
Under which credentials do you have the Task Scheduler run your FFS sync? By default, that is the System user, and that user does not have access to your C:\Users\xxx folder to read the *.ffs_batch configuration, and also may not have access to the locations specified in your *.ffs_batch configurati...
- 15 Jan 2024, 10:26
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1660
Re: Batch run configure
But what exactly is your problem/issue? E.g. • Does RTS not start/run? If so, how do you start RTS? • Does the FFS sync not run when invoked by RTS? • Does Versioning not work as expected? • ... ? Note that for an FFS sync to run, all locations specified in your FFS sync configuration need to be ava...
- 15 Jan 2024, 09:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1660
Re: Batch run configure
Your problem description is not very clear (at least to me), particularly the part "auto run doesn`t work, every time I run it manually." Also not clear: "archiving all changes to own paths" This suggests you would use local sync settings, with a specific Versioning location per ...
- 15 Jan 2024, 09:21
- Forum: Help
- Topic: how do I setup FFS so that it deletes the file instead of using the recycly bin.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 620
Re: how do I setup FFS so that it deletes the file instead of using the recycly bin.
Because you write that the "recycle bin" folder was created on (in?) the destination folder, this reads like it happened on a (Synology?) NAS. If that is the case, the creation of said folder and moving any deleted files to that recycle bin folder, may even be completely unrelated to FFS, ...
- 15 Jan 2024, 09:07
- Forum: Help
- Topic: How do make it so FFS doesn't try to delete/select files on the right side that aren't on the left side in overview.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 576
Re: How do make it so FFS doesn't try to delete/select files on the right side that aren't on the left side in overview.
> The right side has some system files not on the left side that I don't want to get deleted, but I don't them to go over to the left side either. Assuming the names of said system files are stable, the simplest thing to do, is to add said system files to your Exclude Filter . If said files are all ...
- 12 Jan 2024, 08:06
- Forum: Help
- Topic: ffs_batch file and windows task scheduler
- Replies: 2
- Views: 797
Re: ffs_batch file and windows task scheduler
As described here, you must invoke FreeFileSync.exe to open the *.ffs_batch file, not just invoke the *.ffs_batch file.
This is true for all scheduled jobs, not just FFS jobs; scheduled tasks are not aware of file-associations.
This is true for all scheduled jobs, not just FFS jobs; scheduled tasks are not aware of file-associations.
- 11 Jan 2024, 10:05
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Challenge: Mirroring Files that are currently beeing used
- Replies: 1
- Views: 693
- 11 Jan 2024, 10:04
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Two-way sync does not detect/remebmer deleted files
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1654
Re: Two-way sync does not detect/remebmer deleted files
Given your reply, it seems you did not understand the impact of Zenju's reply.
Irrespective of the cause of changes (renames or just deletions), when using SFTP you can not expect any such changes will be properly detected in a two-way FFS sync.
Irrespective of the cause of changes (renames or just deletions), when using SFTP you can not expect any such changes will be properly detected in a two-way FFS sync.
- 10 Jan 2024, 08:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2524
Re: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
The answer I previously gave is exactly the solution to your problem (as I already understood it from your 2nd post but you repeated above). The 1st pair and added local Ex clude Filter rule /subfolder11/ will sync all folders but subfolder11 and its content. The 2nd pair and local In clude Filter r...
- 09 Jan 2024, 07:54
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Remove "sync.ffs_lock"... won't go away [Solved]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4696
Re: Remove "sync.ffs_lock"... won't go away
FFS places those files before a comparison and removes them upon closing FFS.
They are there for a reason: see LockDirectoriesDuringSync.
If you set the LockDirectoriesDuringSync flag to false, you won't get those files, but you also run a risk.
They are there for a reason: see LockDirectoriesDuringSync.
If you set the LockDirectoriesDuringSync flag to false, you won't get those files, but you also run a risk.
- 09 Jan 2024, 07:45
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2524
Re: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
You should follow the "Example: Complex filter rules with exceptions" section of the FFS manual page on Exclude Files.
For your 1st pair use local exclude filter: /subfolder11/
For your 2nd pair use local include filter: /subfolder11/subfolder21/
For your 1st pair use local exclude filter: /subfolder11/
For your 2nd pair use local include filter: /subfolder11/subfolder21/
- 08 Jan 2024, 07:29
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Where does the exported file list go?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16366
Re: Where does the exported file list go?
> Perhaps to prove to themselves later that what they did was correct or at least harmless. The FFS log-file keeps track of what actually happened, and is therefore better proof of what "they did" than the FFS compare results, which (from that angle) only show what FFS intends/intended to ...
- 07 Jan 2024, 10:23
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Disk full when syncing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3635
Re: Disk full when syncing
The topic "Disk full" has been discussed already several times in this forum.
E.g. viewtopic.php?t=8897&p=31857
E.g. viewtopic.php?t=8897&p=31857
- 07 Jan 2024, 10:14
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Files Not Synching
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1597
Re: Files Not Synching
It is not necessarily you (yourself) that opened or modified a file.
Some software tools (like e.g. some anti-virus programs) have the nasty habit of doing that for you ... ;-)
Some software tools (like e.g. some anti-virus programs) have the nasty habit of doing that for you ... ;-)
- 05 Jan 2024, 11:08
- Forum: Help
- Topic: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4185
Re: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
I am not sure what is, or is not, being logged in those cases. Irrespective of logging: the sync is not automatically performed by FFS the next time the target is/becomes on line. However, you could use RTS for that purpose: The function of RealTimeSync is to execute a command line ... when a direct...
- 05 Jan 2024, 07:54
- Forum: Help
- Topic: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4185
Re: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
> Why do i have in batch file left and right pairs in a given order > but FFS does not consider the order at the end? Order is only relevant if there are dependencies between sync locations, forming an overlap. Overlaps must be avoided, because they create potential sync conflicts or ambiguities. An...
- 03 Jan 2024, 16:37
- Forum: Help
- Topic: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4185
Re: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
(I re-used you location notation, although the combination of drive-letters and forward slashes appears strange or simply incorrect to me) The fact that you first list C://folder/folder -> D://folder/folder as your first folder pair AND then D:// -> P:// as your second folder pair does not mean that...
- 03 Jan 2024, 10:30
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Defender suddenly dislikes FreeFileSync
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5556
Re: Defender suddenly dislikes FreeFileSync
> I am running FFS on a work computer (managed by the organization)
Looks like illegal use: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#commercial
So, perhaps it is just your companies way to protect itself against legal liabilities.
Looks like illegal use: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#commercial
So, perhaps it is just your companies way to protect itself against legal liabilities.
- 02 Jan 2024, 12:11
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bug Report - Incomplete %ComputerName%
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20051
Re: Bug Report - Incomplete %ComputerName%
Note that HOSTNAME and ComputerName are different beasts.
You (harryytm) never reacted to my initial reply about ComputerName ...
You (harryytm) never reacted to my initial reply about ComputerName ...
- 02 Jan 2024, 09:42
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Contact FreeFileSync license
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2846
- 01 Jan 2024, 09:37
- Forum: Help
- Topic: When I change one item in a folder I have to resynch the entire folder
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4885
Re: When I change one item in a folder I have to resynch the entire folder
> The reason given is always that it doesn't exist on the right size. This suggests you are not using the proper left-right base-locations. If you are sure your right-side files are in the desired location, then you should define your left and right base-location such that the path to your files rel...
- 29 Dec 2023, 09:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Error 0x80070570 with 'ffs_tmp' file
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4247
- 29 Dec 2023, 09:37
- Forum: Help
- Topic: I've got a conflict...3,000 of them!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3302
Re: I've got a conflict...3,000 of them!
> ... and what on earth is a folder pair? The absolute very first item of the FreeFileSync (FFS) Manual is: "Basic Usage: 1. Choose left and right folders." which obviously constitutes a (left-right) folder pair ... It seems you are trying to sync between Y:\Games and Y:\Games\C drive stuf...
- 28 Dec 2023, 08:24
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Versioning problems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4890
Re: Versioning problems
Instead of using the "Time stamp (Folder)" option in Versioning, try using "Time stamp (File)" or for your case (keeping just a single previous version) "Replace". When using the "Time stamp (Folder)" option, files may get deleted from "older" Versio...
- 28 Dec 2023, 08:11
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Run on cronjob
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3860
Re: Run on cronjob
Have you tried to follow the manual?