Do your due diligence.
viewtopic.php?t=6954 (and some more)
Particularly read Zenju's (the author of FFS) replies on why it is (at least presently) near impossible.
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- 12 Apr 2024, 10:40
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: PLEASE MAKE DARK MODE
- Replies: 1
- Views: 411
- 12 Apr 2024, 08:03
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Upload updated files to ftp server without scanning remote ftp server
- Replies: 10
- Views: 509
Re: Upload updated files to ftp server without scanning remote ftp server
> I guess for freefilesync this is not an easily accessible use case...? Functionally, your use-case seems to be something like a Fast version of the FFS Update sync variant, when using the databases (Use databasefiles to detect changes) option. When using the database option, FFS compares the prese...
- 10 Apr 2024, 12:26
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Why is the comparison speed different?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 827
Re: Why is the comparison speed different?
@paolog
Your proposal only makes sense if you could be absolutely sure no changes have occurred in between the previous comparison session, of which the results are stored in said file, and the new/resumed comparison session.
But how could you be sure?
Right! Run a new full compare.
Your proposal only makes sense if you could be absolutely sure no changes have occurred in between the previous comparison session, of which the results are stored in said file, and the new/resumed comparison session.
But how could you be sure?
Right! Run a new full compare.
- 09 Apr 2024, 04:39
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Check files between drives with different directory structure
- Replies: 7
- Views: 470
Re: Check files between drives with different directory structure
If the directory structure in your dir1 is (completely) different from that on your SD card, then FreeFileSync seems to not be the tool for your job.
- 06 Apr 2024, 16:25
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Different synchronization results on 2 PCs from the same GDrive source
- Replies: 7
- Views: 277
Re: Different synchronization results on 2 PCs from the same GDrive source
> BTW...is it possible to provide FFS a network address to my Google Drive ...
Click the Cloud button right of the Browse button behind your left and right base location(s)
Click the Cloud button right of the Browse button behind your left and right base location(s)
- 06 Apr 2024, 12:01
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Different synchronization results on 2 PCs from the same GDrive source
- Replies: 7
- Views: 277
Re: Different synchronization results on 2 PCs from the same GDrive source
You write: > 2. Creating the same job on a computer B, with the same source G and destination Z. However, your screenshot shows you are comparing a left location "C:\Users\Kloziak\Dysk Google" (which would be local to computer A, respectively B) with your Z-drive, rather than some "sa...
- 04 Apr 2024, 11:00
- Forum: Help
- Topic: How to setup a whitelist backup?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 260
Re: How to setup a whitelist backup?
I am trying to imagine how FFS (or any other sync tool, for that matter) would be able to decide which (new) files to include and which to exclude, if not based on common characteristics like file extension or (part of the) path or filename. But thus far I have not been able to come with anything. D...
- 04 Apr 2024, 08:13
- Forum: Help
- Topic: How to setup a whitelist backup?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 260
Re: How to setup a whitelist backup?
> How to setup a whitelist backup? Whitelisting sound synonymous to listing in the FFS Include Filter (instead of using the default Include Filter entry * (=everything)). But from your posting it seems you tried that and it does not work for you (or you did not make optimal use of the benefit of usi...
- 02 Apr 2024, 17:29
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Problem with ftp sync
- Replies: 11
- Views: 626
Re: Problem with ftp sync
> Shouldn't ? the RTS be running a BatchDriveFtp.ffs_real rather then _batch? No, upon detecting any changes in the monitored folder(s) (if supported), RTS launches its command line, and here should launch FFS to run the sync configuration saved in the specified *.ffs_ batch file. An *.ffs_ real fil...
- 02 Apr 2024, 12:23
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Why to update all the content? when there are only a few files updated
- Replies: 2
- Views: 452
Re: Why to update all the content? when there are only a few files updated
Perhaps you did not account for Daylight Saving Time.
- 02 Apr 2024, 11:59
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Problem with ftp sync
- Replies: 11
- Views: 626
Re: Problem with ftp sync
So, you did not remove the FTP connected location (your top location) in the list of folders to be monitored by RTS.
Click the minus-icon in front of your FTP location.
Click the minus-icon in front of your FTP location.
- 31 Mar 2024, 12:11
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can you add a note to the plan? Can you mark a special file?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 395
Re: Can you add a note to the plan? Can you mark a special file?
> Make a description for each solution
This forum is not your servant ...
This forum is not your servant ...
- 31 Mar 2024, 12:05
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can be used to express the path that possible changes? For example, version number
- Replies: 3
- Views: 339
Re: Can be used to express the path that possible changes? For example, version number
Ah, you mean in specifying your left-right base location?
In that case you can simply specify C:\Users\dub\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\ and its counterpart as your left, respectively right base location, and use an Include Filter entry of
\Version ??.?-J\
or
\Version ??.?-J\zh_CN\Caches
In that case you can simply specify C:\Users\dub\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\ and its counterpart as your left, respectively right base location, and use an Include Filter entry of
\Version ??.?-J\
or
\Version ??.?-J\zh_CN\Caches
- 31 Mar 2024, 12:00
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Problem after Daylight Saving Time
- Replies: 1
- Views: 128
- 29 Mar 2024, 11:21
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can be used to express the path that possible changes? For example, version number
- Replies: 3
- Views: 339
Re: Can be used to express the path that possible changes? For example, version number
You can use the FFS Filter rules to In- or Exclude files and/or folders in your sync. The FFS Filter rules do not support Regular Expressions, but do support two basic wildcards, that may be sufficient to cover your example above. FFS filter rule entries are relative to your left and right base loca...
- 29 Mar 2024, 11:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Problem with ftp sync
- Replies: 11
- Views: 626
Re: Problem with ftp sync
> How can I solve this problem? That depends on what you consider to be the problem. • If you consider the error message to be the problem, act as per xCSxXenon's reply. • If you consider the ftp protocol not supporting directory monitoring to be the problem, you can either use a different protocol ...
- 29 Mar 2024, 10:51
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Excluded dir is causing an error (.gvfs)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 293
Re: Excluded dir is causing an error (.gvfs)
Having /.gvfs in your Exclude Filter will only exclude a .gvfs-file that is in the root of your left and/or right base-location, not if it is in any of their subdirectories. You need to enter either the correct path in front of /.gvfs , relative to your left-and right base location, or enter */.gvfs...
- 28 Mar 2024, 05:55
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Is there a way to set "Exit" as a default choice?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 571
- 27 Mar 2024, 06:32
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Only want to syncronize a single file ---- how can I do ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 400
Re: Only want to syncronize a single file ---- how can I do ?
For synching just a single file FFS may be a bit of overkill. But nevertheless: You can use the FFS Include Filter . Replace the default Include Filter of * (= everything) by the (path+) filename (relative to your left- and right base-location) of the file you want to sync. You can edit the Filter s...
- 26 Mar 2024, 06:16
- Forum: Help
- Topic: "Both sides have changed" problems with backups
- Replies: 7
- Views: 516
Re: "Both sides have changed" problems with backups
> Why does FreeFileSync show that both files have changed?
Because the file-ID of both the left- and right-side file has changed compared to what it was at the end of the previous sync, as stored in the left-, respectively right-side database file.
Because the file-ID of both the left- and right-side file has changed compared to what it was at the end of the previous sync, as stored in the left-, respectively right-side database file.
- 25 Mar 2024, 16:15
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Insufficient disk space WEBDAV [RESOLVED]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 245
Re: Insufficient disk space WEBDAV
It seems to be a long standing (and still unfixed) WebDav problem, making both Windows and Linux reporting the used and available space of the local disk.
See e.g. in Google or even previously in the FFS forum.
See e.g. in Google or even previously in the FFS forum.
- 25 Mar 2024, 12:30
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Insufficient disk space WEBDAV [RESOLVED]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 245
Re: Insufficient disk space WEBDAV
It depends on how much data in your cloud-space needs to be updated.
Also read this thread.
Also read this thread.
- 25 Mar 2024, 07:25
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Mirroring bug (?) related to FileTimeTolerance
- Replies: 4
- Views: 424
Re: Mirroring bug (?) related to FileTimeTolerance
Further to my last remark just above:
As per the earlier description by Zenju (the author of FFS), your "Cannot determine sync-direction: No change since last synchronization" conflict is apparently considered to be of the 2nd category.
As per the earlier description by Zenju (the author of FFS), your "Cannot determine sync-direction: No change since last synchronization" conflict is apparently considered to be of the 2nd category.
- 25 Mar 2024, 07:10
- Forum: Help
- Topic: "Both sides have changed" problems with backups
- Replies: 7
- Views: 516
Re: "Both sides have changed" problems with backups
> And can't mirroring be a more destructive move than just UPDATE? Mirror and Update can both be equally "destructive" if you accidentally made changes (other than deletions) in the source location and then run one or more syncs. Only if you made accidental deletions in the source location...
- 24 Mar 2024, 08:24
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Mirroring bug (?) related to FileTimeTolerance
- Replies: 4
- Views: 424
Re: Mirroring bug (?) related to FileTimeTolerance
Your problem may be self-inflicted. > I have set FileTimeTolerance to 0 ... The simplest way to "fix" your problem is to change it back to the default setting of 2 seconds, as apparently even required for FAT/FAT32 file systems . The "Cannot determine sync-direction: No change since l...
- 24 Mar 2024, 07:56
- Forum: Help
- Topic: "Both sides have changed" problems with backups
- Replies: 7
- Views: 516
Re: "Both sides have changed" problems with backups
The "Both sides have changed" notification only can occur when using a database . In previous versions of FreeFileSync (FFS), by default the database was only used in the Two-way sync variant, in which it is mandatory. Since FFS version 13.x, the database is by default also used in the Mir...
- 22 Mar 2024, 16:11
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Am I stuck forever with FreeFileSync 13.3?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 766
Re: Am I stuck forever with FreeFileSync 13.3?
There are people using a chisel as a screwdriver. Sometimes it works, sometimes they hurt themselves doing so. If you, Widowsky, being forwarned, do not want to abandon using leading spaces in file/folder-names (using a chisel as a screwdriver), so be it; at some time you will surely hurt yourself. ...
- 20 Mar 2024, 13:38
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: freefilesync 13.4 SymLink in windows 11 problem
- Replies: 5
- Views: 531
Re: freefilesync 13.4 SymLink in windows 11 problem
What is your Symbolic Link handling setting (in the FFS GUI Comparison (F6) tab)?
What file system is your \\q\ location? Not all file systems support reparse points.
What file system is your \\q\ location? Not all file systems support reparse points.
- 20 Mar 2024, 13:31
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: need to have Folders is freefilesync -> configuration tab
- Replies: 2
- Views: 392
Re: need to have Folders is freefilesync -> configuration tab
I understand your request and why/when this would make sense. But, looking at your list, there may be an alternative. You have quite a lot of sync jobs that ran 82 days ago. If you always run those sync jobs in combination, you can define a single sync job that has multiple left-right location pairs...
- 20 Mar 2024, 13:17
- Forum: Help
- Topic: how do run FileSync during windows shutdown ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 810
Re: how do run FileSync during windows shutdown ?
Did you try using the Windows Task Scheduler?
There you can choose to run tasks based on a given time, but also upon given events, such as startup, login, logoff and shutdown.
There you can choose to run tasks based on a given time, but also upon given events, such as startup, login, logoff and shutdown.