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- 19 Jan 2024, 09:01
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Real Time Sync Setup Efficiency
- Replies: 4
- Views: 877
Re: Real Time Sync Setup Efficiency
It is never wise to define the scope of what is being monitored for changes wider than what potentially needs to be synced. ANY change in the entire scope of an RTS (RealTimeSync) instance will cause RTS to launch its command line, normally invoking a specified FFS sync. Conversely, ANY further chan...
- 18 Jan 2024, 07:15
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How about PC vs PC sync other network?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1403
Re: How about PC vs PC sync other network?
Your proposal would require two instances of FFS, each running on respectively the left- and right location (for a sync job that has just a single left-right pair). If you are syncing between two computers you have full control over, that would theoretically be an option. However, most of the time p...
- 17 Jan 2024, 16:15
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Feature Request: more flexible include-/excludepattern
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1156
Re: Feature Request: more flexible include-/excludepattern
The use of RegEx like behavior in the FFS In- and Exclude Filter has been suggested before (see e.g. here). The counter arguments listed there do also still apply. Apart from the addition of the column character ":", filter rule definitions have not changed since then.
- 17 Jan 2024, 07:11
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Adjust free file sync to only sync when file is not in use
- Replies: 1
- Views: 617
Re: Adjust free file sync to only sync when file is not in use
These are two unrelated "issues". If, during a sync, a file that is to be synced turns out to be locked, syncing that file is skipped. Such event is logged in the FFS log-file. For Windows, there is however the option of Volume Shadow Copy . When using Versioning in FFS, a pre-existing fil...
- 16 Jan 2024, 16:08
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Is there a way to speed up a certain, repeated, synchronization configuration?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1071
Re: Is there a way to speed up a certain, repeated, synchronization configuration?
The Compare phase will last about equally long every time.
During successive syncs, the amount of sync actions will generally be less than for the initial sync.
Therefore the duration of the sync phase is normally shorter for successive syncs.
During successive syncs, the amount of sync actions will generally be less than for the initial sync.
Therefore the duration of the sync phase is normally shorter for successive syncs.
- 16 Jan 2024, 08:41
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Various errors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1305
Re: Various errors
1) The databases do not exist yet when you run any given sync for the first time, and are created during/at the end of running the sync (one on either side of every left-right pair). If, after you have run any sync the first time, you remove a databases (a sync.ffs_db file) on either side, "the...
- 16 Jan 2024, 08:22
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Bug?/FeatureRequest: Folders compared have DateModified updated on compare (not sync)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 789
Re: Bug?/FeatureRequest: Folders compared have DateModified updated on compare (not sync)
During/based on the Compare of the initial FFS instance, FFS decides which sync actions should be performed later, during the sync phase. A Compare performed by a second FFS instance on the (at least part of) the same location(s) is blissfully unaware of any impending sync actions of the initial FFS...
- 15 Jan 2024, 13:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1676
Re: Batch run configure
Note, that RTS does not have a (time) interval, but an Idle Time. Read the description in the RTS Manual page. If any new changes occur in the RTS monitored directories during the Idle Time, the Idle Time timer is reset. If there are too frequent changes in any of the RTS monitored directories, the ...
- 15 Jan 2024, 11:40
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1676
Re: Batch run configure
That's how you configure RTS, not an answer to my question how you start RTS.
- 15 Jan 2024, 10:46
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1676
Re: Batch run configure
How do you start RTS?
• Manually, e.g by double clicking the *.FFS_real configuration file?
• Via your Autostart folder?
• Via the Task Scheduler? If so, under what user credentials do you run the task?
• Manually, e.g by double clicking the *.FFS_real configuration file?
• Via your Autostart folder?
• Via the Task Scheduler? If so, under what user credentials do you run the task?
- 15 Jan 2024, 10:37
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Scheduler Batch File Not working
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1248
Re: Scheduler Batch File Not working
Under which credentials do you have the Task Scheduler run your FFS sync? By default, that is the System user, and that user does not have access to your C:\Users\xxx folder to read the *.ffs_batch configuration, and also may not have access to the locations specified in your *.ffs_batch configurati...
- 15 Jan 2024, 10:26
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1676
Re: Batch run configure
But what exactly is your problem/issue? E.g. • Does RTS not start/run? If so, how do you start RTS? • Does the FFS sync not run when invoked by RTS? • Does Versioning not work as expected? • ... ? Note that for an FFS sync to run, all locations specified in your FFS sync configuration need to be ava...
- 15 Jan 2024, 09:43
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Batch run configure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1676
Re: Batch run configure
Your problem description is not very clear (at least to me), particularly the part "auto run doesn`t work, every time I run it manually." Also not clear: "archiving all changes to own paths" This suggests you would use local sync settings, with a specific Versioning location per ...
- 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: 622
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: 579
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: 802
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: 696
- 11 Jan 2024, 10:04
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Two-way sync does not detect/remebmer deleted files
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1666
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: 2531
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: 4701
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: 2531
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: 16373
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: 3646
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: 1599
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: 4185
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: 4185
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: 4185
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: 5569
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: 20069
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: 2847