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- 21 Feb 2024, 13:08
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Recovering The Files Deleted by FreeFileSync
- Replies: 5
- Views: 303
Re: Recovering The Files Deleted by FreeFileSync
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...
- 20 Feb 2024, 16:18
- Forum: Help
- Topic: FreeFileSync in Explorer Contextmenu
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1650
- 19 Feb 2024, 08:21
- Forum: Help
- Topic: File Comparing Options
- Replies: 10
- Views: 379
Re: File Comparing Options
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...
- 18 Feb 2024, 16:46
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Can I hide a drive from Windows Explorer while still allowing a drive to sync
- Replies: 6
- Views: 304
Re: Can I hide a drive from Windows Explorer while still allowing a drive to sync
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:\
- 18 Feb 2024, 10:30
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Starting RealTimeSync automatically on Windows 11
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1007
- 16 Feb 2024, 08:12
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ignore subfolders and sync only subfolder contents
- Replies: 2
- Views: 495
- 16 Feb 2024, 08:04
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 500,000 files every time
- Replies: 3
- Views: 578
Re: 500,000 files every time
> 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...
- 16 Feb 2024, 07:52
- Forum: Help
- Topic: False detections when comparing
- Replies: 7
- Views: 446
Re: False detections when comparing
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...
- 15 Feb 2024, 16:49
- Forum: Help
- Topic: RealTime sync closing after sync
- Replies: 4
- Views: 278
Re: RealTime sync closing after sync
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 ...
- 14 Feb 2024, 13:42
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: synchronize directorie with subdirectories
- Replies: 2
- Views: 539
Re: synchronize directorie with subdirectories
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...
- 14 Feb 2024, 07:57
- Forum: Help
- Topic: How to activate Business Edition features?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 576
Re: How to activate Business Edition features?
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. ...
- 08 Feb 2024, 07:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Moved/renamed files as separate view filter category
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3019
Re: A new possible feature
For all clarity, todsandberg is asking for an extra Compare result category; not a modification/addition to FFS's Filter function.
- 06 Feb 2024, 07:13
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Is there a way to automatically create a log file of what FFS does?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 612
Re: Is there a way to automatically create a log file of what FFS does?
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 ...
- 04 Feb 2024, 14:31
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Flat versus tree file structure
- Replies: 123
- Views: 178756
Re: Flat versus tree file structure
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.
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.
- 04 Feb 2024, 13:28
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Copy locked files (VSS) on Job Basis
- Replies: 2
- Views: 660
Re: Copy locked files (VSS) on Job Basis
"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...
- 03 Feb 2024, 18:33
- Forum: Help
- Topic: RealTimeSync doesn't work both ways
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1012
Re: RealTimeSync doesn't work both ways
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.
This is not unlikely, as it is not a full-fletched NAS.
Read the third bullet of the RTS limitations.
- 02 Feb 2024, 10:14
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1655
Re: Batch run configure
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.
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.
- 02 Feb 2024, 07:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Move file one at a time with delay?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1587
Re: Move file one at a time with delay?
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.
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.
- 02 Feb 2024, 06:50
- Forum: Help
- Topic: 1 source 2 targets, only 1 target needs the latest source
- Replies: 3
- Views: 944
Re: 1 source 2 targets, only 1 target needs the latest source
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...
- 01 Feb 2024, 20:44
- Forum: Help
- Topic: 1 source 2 targets, only 1 target needs the latest source
- Replies: 3
- Views: 944
Re: 1 source 2 targets, only 1 target needs the latest source
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.
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.
Re: Time Span
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...
- 30 Jan 2024, 10:12
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Target file time not updating during Mirror sync
- Replies: 2
- Views: 847
Re: Target file time not updating during Mirror sync
Perhaps the Daylight Saving Time feature can help out here.
- 30 Jan 2024, 08:08
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Time Span: / Last X Hours - New Feature
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1375
Re: Time Span: / Last X Hours - New Feature
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...
- 30 Jan 2024, 07:50
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Real Time Sync not Syncing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 828
Re: Real Time Sync not Syncing
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...
- 28 Jan 2024, 09:45
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: [FEATURE REQUEST] Comparision improvement
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1435
Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Comparision improvement
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...
- 28 Jan 2024, 09:25
- Forum: Help
- Topic: No way to create log in my own folder
- Replies: 1
- Views: 776
Re: No way to create log in my own folder
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
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
- 27 Jan 2024, 21:41
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Set location for the database file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 865
- 27 Jan 2024, 21:38
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Transfer home folder
- Replies: 1
- Views: 759
Re: Transfer home folder
> I am expecting the 'synced' folder to be copied and its contents. That is not what FreeFileSync (FFS) does. FFS syncs (just) the content of the left and right base-location. So, you need to sync between e.g. C:\XYZ\home => D:\ABC\EFG\home and NOT between C:\XYZ\home => D:\ABC\EFG You can enter/typ...
- 27 Jan 2024, 21:23
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Unable to install FFS on desktop (after years of use on that machien)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1189
Re: Unable to install FFS on desktop (after years of use on that machien)
> I also took a screenshot of my sync so if it ever happens again I know what I've been doing every Saturday for many years. You can also simply save your FFS sync configuration(s) as a *.ffs_gui or *.ffs_batch file and (re)load that/those configuration(s) if you need to. Much simpler than "res...