FreeFileSync Forum

Thanks for the info! I knew this Visual C++ compilation would cause some trouble... :) The problem is that some .dlls are missing on your work PC. Those are usually provided via "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package" which you might have installed on your home PC, so it's...

The latest versions will not start on my work computer. When I double click on FreeFileSync.exe I get an error stating 'This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect'. this error does not occur with v1.19 even when uninstalled and reinstalled. V2 works perf...

Direct download of v2.1 from sourceforge: [404, Invalid URL: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freefilesync/FreeFileSync_v2.1_win32.exe] [404, Invalid URL: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freefilesync/FreeFileSync_v2.1_win32.zip] [404, Invalid URL: http://downloads.sourceforg...

When will you upload the file? I can only see the 2.0 version. The new version v2.1 is already uploaded since yesterday evening. But apperently sourceforge currently has some serious issues with the new webdesign. Not only is v2.1 not visible although I can see it in release management, also there ...

Indeed I found a bug when synchronization finishes: At this point there is a mismatch between actual and displayed data for a very, very, very small timeframe. (But it's enough to crash from time to time) The bug has been there all the time, but became visible not before compiling with MS Visual C++...

I can confirm the bug! It seems to appear only if synchronization finishes while the application is not visible (in background).

I'll look into this and find a solution ASAP.

Thanks, Zenju

Hi Zenju, I love the new version 2.0! It does everything I need it to and I am pleased to say that my several years search for a decent backup utility is finally at an end having used in the past Polderbackup, PathSync, DSynchronise and SynchToy. None are as good as FFS. It is hard to see how 2.0 c...

For v2.0 I made a major change in compilation: I used MS Visual C++ instead of MinGW. I'll recompile the sourcecode again with MinGW later and would kindly ask you to retest with the new build. This is the only thing that could explain this behaviour as there are no other critical changes since v1.1...

>> 've find the errors 80, it's user right errors. >> FreeFileSync can't move files in the garbage or erase files because he don't have the proper right. In this case I'd expect FreeFileSync to show an error message stating that deletion into recycle bin failed INSTEAD of showing the message that co...

Hello Francis! Can you give me some Details about what exactly you are doing? I assume you have files on both sides and are overwriting files on drive "k:\". What the tool does in this case is, it deletes the files on "k:\" first and then copies from "D:\" to "K:\...

Hello Francis! Can you give me some Details about what exactly you are doing? I assume you have files on both sides and are overwriting files on drive "k:\". What the tool does in this case is, it deletes the files on "k:\" first and then copies from "D:\" to "K:\&...

Thanks for the program. It provides some very useful functions, however there is one that I have not been able to solve. I have lots of files that show a conflict. I cannot find a way to use "drag & drop" as you suggested in an earlier post, nor can I change the "conflict" s...

Hi Zenju,

And when is v2.0 going to be released?

Cheers, Rogercollinro

Release is planned for July 1st.

-Zenju

Hi Yosu,

handling of include filter is fixed for v2.0. Please try again with the next release.

Best regards, Zenju

got another error again today. This time I was just syncing a handful of files. yes my external hardrive is a usb 2.0 device. I have pasted the errors below from the event viewer. I'm still running version 1.18 but I'm thinking of giving 1.19 a try. Faulting application freefilesync.exe, version 0....

PS: A current workaround to traverse into all directories, would be to setup the include filter like this: *\; *.doc The "*\" includes all elements that end with a "\", which is interpreted as a directory. This should do exactly what you want. Anyway I'll think about the issue an...

Hi Yosu, with v1.19 the behavior of the filter changed: It is now applied WHILE comparing. This has the advantage, that you can exclude whole directories, especially useful if comparing by content. In your case (I assume you use "*.doc..." as an include filter) this can make a difference: ...

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I'm using 1.18, on XP. I have 1gb of Ram and a 2.4 single core processor. I was transfering data from a file server on my network to an external harddrive attached to my workstation. The total size of all the files was 150gb and there were a lot of files...

No problem! Actually I can understand your confusion and have fixed it for the next release: If you add a new folder pair, the list of pairs automatically gets scrolled down to the bottom. This even helps in two ways: 1. If you add a new pair you would scroll down anyway. 2. Confusion like you exper...

Hi Zenju, I think I have found a bug. If you put in all four permitted folder pairs and then click on the "Add folder pair" button again, two black arrows appear on the left side in-between the second and third folder pair and third and fourth folder pair. If you then try to compare the f...

Hi Zenju, I am synchronizing (mirror) from my laptop to a personal server about 30000 files. 99% of the files are less than 200KB, and 75% less than 20KB. With ViceVersa the speed is between 50 and 500 KB/s, with FreeFileSync speed is less than 10 KB/s and can stay below 2 KB/s for some time. Is th...

Hi JeanPierre, I am not aware that the sync algorithm wastes cpu-time at some point 'cause basically what it does is, it passes the files to be copied to the WIN32 API. Did you also compare the whole runtime? What is the ratio ViceVersa / FFS? I'll do some performance measurements with vice versa wh...

Hi Jean-Pierre,

it's possible to drag-select multiple rows and assign a sync-direction. But even this might be difficult for 1700 files. I'll add an option to the context-menu to do that, similarly to the right-click filtering options.

Regards, Zenju

Implementation for Volume Shadow Copy finished.

Locked files can now be copied with ease in XP/Vista/Seven :)

-Zenju

I woke up this morning after having FreeFileSync complete a full backup of my hard drive. It completed successfully. However, errors popped up for 347 files, mostly concerned with locked files or files in use. The files came from two directories: The "c:\users" directory and the "c:\...

Hi Rog, you're right! Due to the new concept, it's not clear which mode you're using. Though the sync preview is meant to fill this (information) gap, I also think that it's valuable to see which sync-variant is chosen (though technically there is no such thing such as sync-variant, just the individ...

Hi Bob, >> change copy direction for all files at once. You can change several lines at once by selecting multiple rows in the middle grid. (Works for temporary filtering as well as for all sync-directions) Moreover the switch functionality is not lost. It's in the middle grid context menu. I try ha...

Hi, the behaviour up to v1.18 is to scan everything and apply the filter AFTER comparison. Responding to feedback communicated here [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2794720&group_id=234430&atid=1093081] I am changing the behaviour to apply while compari...

Firstly thanks Zenju for your great answer on subfolder synchronisation. I do have one more question. A lot of my files have a one hour difference due to daylight savings even though they are identical. I know that some synchronisation software can ignore this 1 hour difference when looking at what...

Thank you so much for making such useful software - I have spent a long time looking for a good synchronization tool and I have now found it in FreeFileSync. It would be nice though to have a good help file as at the moment I am confused as to whether there is an option to NOTsychronize sub-folders...