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You can also put a shortcut that points directly to the ".ffs_real" configuration in the startup folder!

https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=rts-as-service

Assuming the initial limitation for the 1st sync is to have all OneDrive files locally on the PC. What happens if you later select that sync'd OneDrive folder on the PC and choose the OneDrive option "Free Up Space" ? At the next sync will FFS detect that the freed up files files are now ...

Use Time Machine to back up your OS, it is simply the best option in existence.
FFS is not a system backup/restore tool and shouldn't be relied upon for such use

Of course, the permissions are there to prevent other users from accessing your data.
You can either run FFS from each account for backups or run FFS using sudo from a terminal.

While you may have same named files, what about time & size (your comparison method)? You can see time in W/E, but not in FFS. You can see size in FFS, but not in W/E (at least not to the byte level). Might something have changed the dates of particular files &/or might the file sizes have ...

The only difference I see is the capitalization of 'Mine' on one side. I'm sure it won't make a difference, but what happens if you change it so the folders match identically? Also, what happens if you only sync one of the files? You can click one of the photos and hit ENTER to sync just that one it...

File Explorer works fine?
Reboot computer?

Can't find any concrete info on what that directory is used for, so it probably has no need to be backed up. I would exclude it. It's definitely a system file location, and FFS isn't a good option for system backup/restore anyway

The timestamp on the original file is probably corrupt/broken and contains a date outside the range that FAT can support. This means copying the file to the FAT location will lose the timestamp and set it to the current date/time, which may result in FFS detecting it as out-of-sync with the source o...

If you are renaming/moving files, FFS can detect that and avoid duplicating the file on the destination. FFS isn't a duplicate finder though, so make sure you are renaming/moving the file(s), not copying them.

You should just use FFS from the get-go then, as it can detect files that are moved/renamed instead of creating duplicates

Aren't we lazy.

You probably want to add /MIR to your RocoCopy command, no?

You should have run a sync before changing the name. Then, the moves/renames would have been detected as such, and then the matching operation would be performed on the destination rather than a delete-then-recopy. If you had done that, you could have changed the name to "Downloads", then ...

How embarrassing. This exact question was asked and answered literally two days ago. That's so bad that I'll let you find it yourself

Figure out what is interfering

Well no. I get three installs. DeirdreYoung, 04 Mar 2024, 20:03

Maybe there is a lack of consistency but I have it installed on six devices without issues, and others are only reporting a warning once they get to 10 installs...

Something else is interfering before FFS can delete them

For donation edition, you may not even need to uninstall it. You will probably be fine just installing it on the new computer

Yes, use the star version since a '*' is a wildcard that matches anything

Good luck with those other options that lack the features of FFS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Switch the exclusion to '*\AppData\"
or "\Users\%username%\AppData\"
Your current setting is excluding "\Users\Appdata\" which doesn't exist

Or simply trust me. Ha That's rich, end users can never be trusted lol Any suggestions on what other data could be collected to uniquely identify a device without being too intrusive to the end user? Also "20XW0055GE" isn't unique, it's a product ID for the device model so thousands of pe...

Yes, the executable itself was not locked, but it was the one locking the file. It's an Nvidia feature to do stuff, but it requires saving data into a temp file, which is what you are seeing.

A picture of the whole FFS window might help

1) Basically the same as far as I can tell. Possibly an older layout may have provided a more prominent use case for the checkboxes 2) Can't you just run the sync? Then the modification times would be the same. Or you could use RoboCopy: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10823 Or if the...

FFS shouldn't be leaving any temporary recycle bin folders, FFS deletes to the "Recycle Bin" that Windows uses, if set to do so. Don't check the actual recycle bin folders on the drive itself, check the Windows "Recycle Bin", which shows all contents of every recycle bin connected