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Both of your posts are filled with grammar mistakes that make it difficult to interpret your issues.
"only the deleted and new files can be viewed copied" what??
"folder I want to move a filter on RIGHT" Move a filter???

File date/timestamps should be preserved under the right conditions. Folder date/timestamps can't though, due to the way Windows creates directories.

I would disagree with that. The goal of the program is to sync a source and destination, not deduplication. There are many tools with pre-tested algorithms for that

The sync option needs to be two-way so a change on 3 would sync with 1, then that would sync with 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6

Shows picture of almost exactly what we want.
Doesn't even hint at how to get it done.
I'm guessing the source code was changed

You would sync: 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-1 Not pretty, and will take 5*idledelay seconds to propagate through all server locations Or sync: 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 Which is probably better since it only takes at most 2*idledelay seconds to propagate and only needs 5 sync jobs in one batch. It will only hav...

Admin permissions doesn't necessarily give you permissions to do anything anywhere. You either need to give yourself full control on the directory, or uncheck the option in FFS that locks a directory during sync

You cannot do what you are trying to do. RTS monitors the folders in the sync and will start a batch job when it detects a change or when it is connected. mtp DOES NOT support this, so RTS will never see the phone connect to the computer. This is not a problem or feature missing from RTS, it is a fe...

The major issue is your spotty connection, not the program.
What stops you from starting the sync again? It should restart where it left off.
You could also temporarily exclude all but the newest 20% of files and sync them in smaller batches.

Are you using donation edition?

Imaging is best for full drive backups.

Windows has a 260 character limit I believe. Is it only a single directory? What reason does it give you for the failure to create a directory.

I don't think there are plans in place for that yet.

Use RTS. It will monitor the two directories. Once you plug it in, it will see the directory, then trigger a sync after the idle delay time you set in RTS.

I'm guessing that is caused by the method that Windows is shutting down. It looks like either the display driver is unloaded, or dwm.exe(desktopwindowmanager) is partially shut down. You may create a batch script that contains two lines. The first that runs the sync and then "shutdown -s -t -0&...

Create and save a job in FFS. Find that file in "File Explorer" then drag it onto the RTS window. It will auto populate the monitored folders with the source and destination. You can change the idle delay, then save the RTS job. You can then run "start "" "%PROGRAM FILE...

Not priority, but +1

When you set those exclusions, that stops it from moving, copying, and deleting those exclusion. FFS didn't even attempt to detect any differences for those three directories, it just lets them be. It didn't detect that it should delete them on the destination because you explicitly told it not to e...

Arthur, monitoring a directory via a SYMLINK is not supported by Windows. It has nothing to do with FFS or RTS. RTS change detection =/= FFS difference detection. The problem here lies in what triggers the sync. FFS uses user interaction to trigger it, where RTS monitors changes to trigger a sync. s...

The error makes it look like that file is broken. FFS says "How big is this file?" Windows responds "119701490 bytes" FFS then says "Cool, I'll copy that file to the destination, HEY WAIT. That file is really only 4 bytes, and I don't know what to do. I don't want to overwri...

No clue what you guys are doing wrong, but FFS absolutely created new folders when they appear on one side only, as long as your sync settings are correct. That picture shows an attempt to sync a folder on the left with nothing on the right. It doesn't know if you want it to sync to a folder on the ...

That is such a niche scenario... What happens when you run out of space on the tape? Doesn't it just give you an error and pause the transfer, then gives you options to retry, skip, cancel, etc.?

So, on version 10.15 in Windows 1903, I can ONLY delete them if I highlight them with the cursor, then Shift+DEL. Navigating with keyboard does not work.

As long as FFS uses the basic file manipulation, it won't be possible. As Plerry stated, it's using the same process that a user would when manually syncing files. It is just able to create a "table of contents" of differences and can enact the copy/move/delete commands much faster. It wou...

The two pictures do show the same file being transferred. I'm guess whatever you are syncing from/to does not handle pausing in the middle very well, or at all. I don't think FFS just stops, I believe that it requests a stop and then waits for a signal to do so. I would try syncing those files betwe...

FFS doesn't prioritize anything based on size. It is all based on newer or not existing. Check your sync settings.

What is a "long time". There are a few things that it has to so before it can pause. On a 1mb/s connection, I could see it being an issue. I sometimes have to wait a few seconds even on gigabit local transfers.

Reinstall the program first

Typically that is caused by the permission settings on the NAS. Can you manually copy files to/from the server using just explorer?