FreeFileSync Forum

You can test by installing version 11.28 and checking!

I use fluxbox, and I wonder if that is the reason I always see a new window on the iconbar (taskbar) when I show the tooltip for the center column of the file grid. Perhaps more advanced window managers suppress the taskbar entry, but I needed this patch for my setup.

Dear Zenju, Thank you for the latest release of this project! I have investigated how to suppress (on GNU/Linux) the taskbar entry for the tooltip that appears when the user mouses over the left-or-right indicator in the middle of the file grid. Would you please consider incorporating this patch int...

Not an expert either, but if merely linking to an additional library gets you want you need, it sounds fine. There's probably a set of default libraries that are always linked to, and that list of defaults is probably different for each compiler * compiler version * architecture * distro!

Nope, that sounded like a good thing to bring up here, because other FreeFileSync users might run into the same problem as you. I'm glad you also asked Samsung.

If you are interested in something autoconnecting, research autofs . I think auto-mounting with autofs an SMB share would require a password saved somewhere, though. Sorry, I know mostly low-level things and not fancy gio stuff. May I share that the /etc/fstab pretty much has to be world-readable (I...

Nautilus is part of the GNOME software suite, which has fancy libraries available to it for looking at files. If we can use basic Linux filesystem mount commands to get to your network share, we can get FreeFileSync to see it too. So it is obvious you know the hostname/IP address and the password to...

If your SMB share is now mounted, it is accessible via a regular directory path. I would be very surprised if the path includes that string you mention with the colon, equal sign, and comma. A nice trick I use to learn the path to something is: df -PBM This shows disk space for all mounted drives. T...

Would you please run FreeFileSync from the command line? The best thing to run would be the contents of the Exec= line of the FreeFileSync.desktop file which is probably ~/.local/share/applications/FreeFileSync.desktop or similar. And just in case it isn't clear, ~ tilde means $HOME or probably /hom...

Did you keep /opt around? That's where the official release of FreeFileSync installs itself to. If you no longer have the old /opt available, just install FreeFileSync fresh.

Cron is for automated tasks, and graphical programs make for poor automated tasks. I understand the appeal of FreeFileSync being automated because it's the same as the graphical one. It's literally the same thing, so it needs a graphical environment ($DISPLAY) and all of the weight that comes with t...

The first error message sounds like a filesystem-level problem, and not really a permission problem. Would you please share the output of: mount | grep /home/remote-media The second error: FreeFileSync is a graphical program and needs environment variable DISPLAY set. In your cron job (search this f...

Wow, I thought wxWidgets 3.2 dropped gtk2. At least the Debian package suggests that they only bother to compile wxWidgets 3.2 against gtk3. $ dpkg -l | grep wx | grep 3 ii libwxbase3.0-0v5:amd64 3.0.5.1+dfsg-5 amd64 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets toolkit ii libwxbas...

FreeFileSync 11.0 introduced support for GTK+3 per the Archive page. The discussion about manual compilation from source links to various build recipes that make references to which version of GTK+ they use to compile the application. On that note, Zenju, please don't migrate to GTK 4 or 40 or whate...

That always depends on your library versions. Perhaps Arch Linux would always have the latest versions of the dependencies that Zenju uses, but most distros lag behind bleeding edge version updates for things like wxWidgets and openssl. Pretty much every user in a GNU/Linux environment has to patch ...

There are various folks who compile this on Ubuntu , (formerly) Fedora and even CentOS 7, and Devuan , and now even a guy trying to get it into Debian . Oh, and some ROSA Linux I'm not very familiar with. And OpenSuSE . The AUR for Arch Linux is a little out of date but it used to be a go-to place f...

One possibility is that the different DEs are using different font files. That seems like quite a stretch, but we can bother to go down that lane if you wish. You will need to install strace . Because it is a command line utility, it might not appear in a graphical package manager. You should invest...

You could search your main program menu for "Terminal" or GNOME Terminal or KTerm or xterm or another terminal emulator program. People might call such a big, black window with text a "command prompt." Inside such a terminal window, you can type commands to run. We want to cd (ch...

When you say "the computer crashes" does that mean you must then power off or reboot the computer to get it to function normally again? Or do you mean that FreeFileSync 11.26 crashes and never is available to use? How do you run FreeFileSync 11.26? I guess you use a menu entry. Can you run...

I am not an expert, but let's get some more details! Can you share your screen resolution in MATE, and if you are doing any software-based scaling (1.5x or 2x or something else)? Can you share your screen resolution in Cinnamon and scaling there too?

Thank you, daviank, compiling with your patch works. I'll incorporate it into my package.

For a nuclear option, if you're not picky about historical settings, you could move or modify ~/.config/FreeFileSync/GlobalSettings.xml.

When you ssh to your server, and you have a $DISPLAY value in that session, then ssh is doing X-forwarding. That :10.0 session will not exist when you do not have that ssh session running. You probably don't want to try to use that. If you want to get really messy, you can learn which pid (process i...

You share information about su and sudo but I don't see that invoked in your command at all. Is this in the user crontab (crontab -e)? If this is in a file in /etc/cron.d/ then you will probably want to add the user after the time specification: 00 00 * * * homers DISPLAY=:10.0 /usr/local/bin/FreeFi...

I think that was version 10.25 that introduced the new layout. My patch used to indicate which version it was that last had the "traditional" view.

Since you asked, I maintain a patch that adds two options to the list of views: Traditional, and Trad. Relative. To use this patch, you have to be able to compile FreeFileSync from source.
link to patch

For some additional context, gtk2 is the GIMP Toolkit which has moved beyond just being the graphical toolkit for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Gtk4 is actually the current version of gtk. A lot of distributions of GNU/Linux have moved to gtk3 as a preferred minimum release of gtk. It is possi...

It appears that you have tried to run the directory, and not the program itself! Based on the paths you have described, please try to run it with this:

Some enterprising individual has instructions on how to compile FreeFileSync on a Raspberry Pi. Those would work, in general, for any architecture.

Would you please run the program from the command line: And look for anything obvious in the output. It probably will not be, so next up we might want to see the output of: