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- 15 Jan 2024, 09:21
- Forum: Help
- Topic: how do I setup FFS so that it deletes the file instead of using the recycly bin.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 620
Re: how do I setup FFS so that it deletes the file instead of using the recycly bin.
Because you write that the "recycle bin" folder was created on (in?) the destination folder, this reads like it happened on a (Synology?) NAS. If that is the case, the creation of said folder and moving any deleted files to that recycle bin folder, may even be completely unrelated to FFS, ...
- 15 Jan 2024, 09:07
- Forum: Help
- Topic: How do make it so FFS doesn't try to delete/select files on the right side that aren't on the left side in overview.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 576
Re: How do make it so FFS doesn't try to delete/select files on the right side that aren't on the left side in overview.
> The right side has some system files not on the left side that I don't want to get deleted, but I don't them to go over to the left side either. Assuming the names of said system files are stable, the simplest thing to do, is to add said system files to your Exclude Filter . If said files are all ...
- 12 Jan 2024, 08:06
- Forum: Help
- Topic: ffs_batch file and windows task scheduler
- Replies: 2
- Views: 796
Re: ffs_batch file and windows task scheduler
As described here, you must invoke FreeFileSync.exe to open the *.ffs_batch file, not just invoke the *.ffs_batch file.
This is true for all scheduled jobs, not just FFS jobs; scheduled tasks are not aware of file-associations.
This is true for all scheduled jobs, not just FFS jobs; scheduled tasks are not aware of file-associations.
- 11 Jan 2024, 10:05
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Challenge: Mirroring Files that are currently beeing used
- Replies: 1
- Views: 690
- 11 Jan 2024, 10:04
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Two-way sync does not detect/remebmer deleted files
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1641
Re: Two-way sync does not detect/remebmer deleted files
Given your reply, it seems you did not understand the impact of Zenju's reply.
Irrespective of the cause of changes (renames or just deletions), when using SFTP you can not expect any such changes will be properly detected in a two-way FFS sync.
Irrespective of the cause of changes (renames or just deletions), when using SFTP you can not expect any such changes will be properly detected in a two-way FFS sync.
- 10 Jan 2024, 08:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2514
Re: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
The answer I previously gave is exactly the solution to your problem (as I already understood it from your 2nd post but you repeated above). The 1st pair and added local Ex clude Filter rule /subfolder11/ will sync all folders but subfolder11 and its content. The 2nd pair and local In clude Filter r...
- 09 Jan 2024, 07:54
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Remove "sync.ffs_lock"... won't go away [Solved]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4691
Re: Remove "sync.ffs_lock"... won't go away
FFS places those files before a comparison and removes them upon closing FFS.
They are there for a reason: see LockDirectoriesDuringSync.
If you set the LockDirectoriesDuringSync flag to false, you won't get those files, but you also run a risk.
They are there for a reason: see LockDirectoriesDuringSync.
If you set the LockDirectoriesDuringSync flag to false, you won't get those files, but you also run a risk.
- 09 Jan 2024, 07:45
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2514
Re: Include folders and exclude some of their subfolders
You should follow the "Example: Complex filter rules with exceptions" section of the FFS manual page on Exclude Files.
For your 1st pair use local exclude filter: /subfolder11/
For your 2nd pair use local include filter: /subfolder11/subfolder21/
For your 1st pair use local exclude filter: /subfolder11/
For your 2nd pair use local include filter: /subfolder11/subfolder21/
- 08 Jan 2024, 07:29
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Where does the exported file list go?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16357
Re: Where does the exported file list go?
> Perhaps to prove to themselves later that what they did was correct or at least harmless. The FFS log-file keeps track of what actually happened, and is therefore better proof of what "they did" than the FFS compare results, which (from that angle) only show what FFS intends/intended to ...
- 07 Jan 2024, 10:23
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Disk full when syncing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3624
Re: Disk full when syncing
The topic "Disk full" has been discussed already several times in this forum.
E.g. viewtopic.php?t=8897&p=31857
E.g. viewtopic.php?t=8897&p=31857
- 07 Jan 2024, 10:14
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Files Not Synching
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1595
Re: Files Not Synching
It is not necessarily you (yourself) that opened or modified a file.
Some software tools (like e.g. some anti-virus programs) have the nasty habit of doing that for you ... ;-)
Some software tools (like e.g. some anti-virus programs) have the nasty habit of doing that for you ... ;-)
- 05 Jan 2024, 11:08
- Forum: Help
- Topic: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4184
Re: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
I am not sure what is, or is not, being logged in those cases. Irrespective of logging: the sync is not automatically performed by FFS the next time the target is/becomes on line. However, you could use RTS for that purpose: The function of RealTimeSync is to execute a command line ... when a direct...
- 05 Jan 2024, 07:54
- Forum: Help
- Topic: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4184
Re: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
> Why do i have in batch file left and right pairs in a given order > but FFS does not consider the order at the end? Order is only relevant if there are dependencies between sync locations, forming an overlap. Overlaps must be avoided, because they create potential sync conflicts or ambiguities. An...
- 03 Jan 2024, 16:37
- Forum: Help
- Topic: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4184
Re: coflicts when real and sort order seems to be canged
(I re-used you location notation, although the combination of drive-letters and forward slashes appears strange or simply incorrect to me) The fact that you first list C://folder/folder -> D://folder/folder as your first folder pair AND then D:// -> P:// as your second folder pair does not mean that...
- 03 Jan 2024, 10:30
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Defender suddenly dislikes FreeFileSync
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5546
Re: Defender suddenly dislikes FreeFileSync
> I am running FFS on a work computer (managed by the organization)
Looks like illegal use: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#commercial
So, perhaps it is just your companies way to protect itself against legal liabilities.
Looks like illegal use: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#commercial
So, perhaps it is just your companies way to protect itself against legal liabilities.
- 02 Jan 2024, 12:11
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bug Report - Incomplete %ComputerName%
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20037
Re: Bug Report - Incomplete %ComputerName%
Note that HOSTNAME and ComputerName are different beasts.
You (harryytm) never reacted to my initial reply about ComputerName ...
You (harryytm) never reacted to my initial reply about ComputerName ...
- 02 Jan 2024, 09:42
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Contact FreeFileSync license
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2845
- 01 Jan 2024, 09:37
- Forum: Help
- Topic: When I change one item in a folder I have to resynch the entire folder
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4883
Re: When I change one item in a folder I have to resynch the entire folder
> The reason given is always that it doesn't exist on the right size. This suggests you are not using the proper left-right base-locations. If you are sure your right-side files are in the desired location, then you should define your left and right base-location such that the path to your files rel...
- 29 Dec 2023, 09:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Error 0x80070570 with 'ffs_tmp' file
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4246
- 29 Dec 2023, 09:37
- Forum: Help
- Topic: I've got a conflict...3,000 of them!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3301
Re: I've got a conflict...3,000 of them!
> ... and what on earth is a folder pair? The absolute very first item of the FreeFileSync (FFS) Manual is: "Basic Usage: 1. Choose left and right folders." which obviously constitutes a (left-right) folder pair ... It seems you are trying to sync between Y:\Games and Y:\Games\C drive stuf...
- 28 Dec 2023, 08:24
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Versioning problems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4889
Re: Versioning problems
Instead of using the "Time stamp (Folder)" option in Versioning, try using "Time stamp (File)" or for your case (keeping just a single previous version) "Replace". When using the "Time stamp (Folder)" option, files may get deleted from "older" Versio...
- 28 Dec 2023, 08:11
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Run on cronjob
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3853
Re: Run on cronjob
Have you tried to follow the manual?
- 26 Dec 2023, 09:33
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unable to access network shares in Linux
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15556
Re: Unable to access network shares in Linux
> but it appears that FFS is not capable of doing this.
By now, you should have understood that it is not FFS, but rather Linux that is not capable of doing what you want.
By now, you should have understood that it is not FFS, but rather Linux that is not capable of doing what you want.
- 26 Dec 2023, 09:21
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Sync from encrypted usb to pc folder
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5904
Re: Sync from encrypted usb to pc folder
It depends on what type of encryption is applied. As FreeFileSync (FFS) works at file-level, if your encryption is also at file-level, FFS will gladly sync files in their encrypted form. Similarly, if you can mount your encrypted drive or folder(s) as a seemingly unencrypted drive or folder (some en...
- 26 Dec 2023, 08:55
- Forum: Help
- Topic: FTP Timeout when sync bigger files
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24484
Re: FTP Timeout when sync bigger files
Zenju's E-mail address can be found at the bottom of the FFS Home page.
- 23 Dec 2023, 16:16
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unable to access network shares in Linux
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15556
Re: Unable to access network shares in Linux
In Windows, next to typing \\nas\share1 in the FFS location window, you can also drag a folder from e.g. Windows (File) Explorer and drop it into the FFS left or right location window. I believe on a MAC you can do the same by dragging a folder from Finder and drop it into the FFS left or right loca...
- 23 Dec 2023, 11:35
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Move Than Copy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8949
Re: Move Than Copy
Not an automatic one:
viewtopic.php?t=10850#p41436
viewtopic.php?t=7690
But it seems you already discovered the manual way to do it.
viewtopic.php?t=10850#p41436
viewtopic.php?t=7690
But it seems you already discovered the manual way to do it.
- 22 Dec 2023, 09:47
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Google Drive Comparison
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10847
Re: Google Drive Comparison
Theoretically, files can have an identical checksum and still differ in content.
That is however very, very unlikely, and, as explained in said threads, not the reason why FFS does not use hashes.
That is however very, very unlikely, and, as explained in said threads, not the reason why FFS does not use hashes.
- 22 Dec 2023, 09:42
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Copy without two way sync?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9198
Re: Copy without two way sync?
> I am assuming in sync settings, this would just be the mirror option? Both the Update and Mirror sync variant will only modify your right-side location ; not your left-side location. The Update sync variant will not delete any item from your right-side location that does not (or no longer) exist i...
- 21 Dec 2023, 08:40
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Google Drive Comparison
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10847
Re: Google Drive Comparison
For good reasons, FreeFileSync (FFS) does not use hashes (as discussed in this forum in multiple threads).
Instead, FFS uses a plain bit-by-bit comparison.
Instead, FFS uses a plain bit-by-bit comparison.