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On Ubuntu, check to see if you have ACLs configured as well. I'm not familiar with administering Ubuntu, but I am aware that they have some form of ACL protection in addition to the traditional "rwxrwxrwx" permission mask. It's enabled by specifying an option in the /etc/fstab file or moun...

Which OS are you running FFS under? One or both? How are volumes from 2 OS's made available to the system running FFS? Is the drive shared between both systems? Do you physically switch the backup drive from one system to the other? If so, then permissions could be your issue, and unfortunately I am...

Hello, I am one of the complainers about the new main grid layout in 10.25. One think I do like about it is the "sticky" folder name that remains on the top line if you scroll down into a large directory listing. However, that's not enough to convince me to re-upgrade. I'm back running 10....

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Try deleting the Recycling Bin on the DESTINATION DRIVE (not the source). Perhaps it will be called $RECYCLE.BIN. Then before running the next sync, make sure that you have /$RECYCLE.BIN/ in the exclude list. I've encountered a weird issue in the past when a file tried to overwrite a directory name,...

Awesome, thank you. Sorry I didn't find that post when I searched.

Hello Darth, Sorry for my delay getting back to you. I don't know why the forum notifications didn't work. I believe that my USB data corruption was actually caused by flaky USB 3 hardware and buggy driver code; perhaps exacerbated (and not CAUSED) by the increased load induced by setting higher par...

I have to drop back to the previous version. I have many deep directories, and mostly I just see whitespace now after running a COMPARE. It's very confusing to attempt to determine what the differences are, and what's going to be copied or not. Perhaps some people like the new layout, but I wish tha...

Hello, Sorry if this has been answered before, I searched the forum and couldn't find a specific answer. What is the method used for "Compare Content?" i.e. Bitwise binary vs. CRC vs. MD5 vs SHA1, etc. I prefer it to be Bitwise binary because then you can waive comparing the remainder of a...

Hello, Adding my experience here -- I have created encrypted volumes using VeraCrypt -- https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html It works very well. VeraCrypt is a spinoff from the TrueCrypt project that was relenquished by its original developers. One nice aspect of VeraCrypt is that it runs on Window...

I apologize for not understanding the question fully and expanding this into a broader topic. I don't usually try to be a pompous buffoon, but sometimes it turns out that way! Sorry, netnet.

I'll add my results with VeraCrypt to the other post that Plerry referenced.

-John

Also, I agree that 8 hours is too long for 57 GB. Are you backing up to USB-2 sticks or some other slow media? Are you adjusting any priorities or CPU affinity in Task Manager? What else is accessing the target "H:" at the same time? Is the target drive one of those IBM/Lenovo Uni-bays (or...

Did it actually take that long after it completed? I have found that the time "Remaining" numbers are always wrong, but resolve to more reasonable numbers at the end. I've seen it jump around, reporting numbers in the range of hours, days, or minutes while watching it for just 5 minutes. B...

Thanks Plerry, that explains all the scenarios very well.

@netnet -- Unfortunately it's really not as simple as you describe. One of the beauties of FFS is that the synchronized target is accessible outside the program. By implementing proprietary encryption within the program, it would become more like a walled-in backup solution rather than an open synch...

FYI, for the encrypted drive test, the target drive will have 2 partitions: 1. A small UN-Encrypted FAT or FAT32 partition containing several installable distros of Veracrypt, perhaps the past 3 versions for Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X. Also to include the "free" version of FFS and a 30-da...

Hello FreeFileSyncers, I am also concerned about the security of the target files, not with cloud backup, but rather with external HDDs, because they are so easy to swipe (steal). I can't speak for Zenju, but my guess is that modifying FFS to perform file encryption and user/password management with...

Hello, There have been other discussions of this in the past. There used to be a configuration option called FolderAccessTimeout that allowed FFS to wait for idle disks to spin up. I can't recall whether it was per folder pair or system wide. The parameter disappeared, and now it just defaults to 20...

Hi, Sorry, I think what I am looking for is the MIRROR mode of synchronization already provided!

As long as it doesn't modify the LEFT FOLDER!

Apologies for spinning your wheels.

-John

Hi, I'm trying to determine if I still have any stale ("orphaned") target files when peforming a sync using "Update >" after changing the Exclude filter. I hope that when I add a directory to the "Filter Exclude" list, that the next time I synchronize, all the excluded ...

FYI, My 47,000 files were in fact properly backed up using FFS so I was able to recover! :-)

Hello, I realize that the above is an old post, but I just accidentally deleted 47,000 files from the source volume when trying to free up some space on the backup volume, because a JUNCTION was translated to a SYMLINKD when it was backed up. I realize I should be more careful, and perhaps should ha...

Hi, I have had to go into GlobalSettings.xml and change the FolderAccessTimeout value to a higher number because I have a sluggish external USB drive that takes its sweet time spinning up. Perhaps the drive bearings need a lube job :-), or I need a new drive, but whatever the case is, I wonder if th...

This is strange ... as if by magic, I no longer get the popups! I confirmed that synchronization occurred successfully via looking at the logs. Could I be mistaken about whether or not "Run-Minimized" and "Auto-Close" had been checked? I swear they were. But perhaps I was wrong. ...

I am trying to prevent the popup whenever RealTimeSync 9.8 finishes copying a file via a Batch job. I have selected Run Minimized, Auto-Close, and Show Error dialog. (I do not want to ignore errors, but I do want to prevent the usual summary popup from frequently jumping into my face while I am edit...