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I use ffs with the option: "Versioning deleted files" with the date-var: "...MyArchivPath\%DATE%" with naming convention "replace". For every day i have an new archive-folder. Thats fine. But, to find the right files for restore is very annoying, because the files are n...

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In my example here - there is only one warning, but the warning counter shows every time one too many, it counts also the the last line, i think that is not correct. the last is the summary and should not be counted. _____________________________________________ |19.10.2018 | host | Completed with w...

Do the beta versions have an expiration date?

I had installed ffs Version 10.4 Beta (after the problems with logfiles...).
Now today i get errors on two machines that say "The Installation files are corrupt and need to reinstall".
ffs ends with errorlevel 4.

@Harm, It should not be a problem to analyze the used space, there are freeware programs like treesize. This sounds more like wrong sync settings from you. FreeFileSync can handle long data names, but the Windows Explorer can not. And FreeFileSync does not eat space and does only what you set. Post ...

Thank you,
works as expected.
volker01

errorlevel 1 comes with the change to 10.3.
My script showed me the old logfile before change,
and not the new one with your logpath-warning.
volker01

Addition: Option:
When user has no Logpath defined then use appdata...
else leave the individual Logpath as it is.

For me "Hold the last "n" Logfiles" is the best option.
volker01

Who can i detect the Version of FFS with a Script?

Hardcoded Logpath ist not useful! When script is runnning with the user "System" (Windows) nobody has access to that APPDATA in the normal way... ffs with scripting there are different user options ... Running per GPO Shutdown-Script : ffs run is with the user SYSTEM running same script fr...

Running ffs from a script,
it returns errorlevel 1 even it is succeslully or nothing to sync ...

Thank you,
is ffs running twice when syncing two idendical folder pairs?

exclude full filename: file.txt - only in rootdir \file.txt - only in subdir \subdir\file.txt - overall, in root und subdir *\file.txt that works as expectedly filetyp only: *.txt i expected: - only in rootdir \*.txt doesn’t work ! doesn't sync *.txt in root AND subdir … - only in subdir \*\*.txt ok...

ok,
maybe it is more usefull (only for mirroring) to lock only the dest. and not the source too?
doubled reading from more than one ffs at the same time should be no problem (with the exception of speed of mirroring) ...

[00:54:30] Fehler: Die Datei "C:\Users\username\OneDrive\Erste Schritte mit OneDrive.pdf" kann nicht nach "S:\ffs_Sicherung\Users\username\OneDrive\Erste Schritte mit OneDrive.9fdf.ffs_tmp" kopiert werden. Fehlercode 395: Der Zugriff auf die Clouddatei wurde verweigert. [CopyFile...

ok, maybe its a problem from the shadowcopy? i'm mirroring with "copy locked files" and there are also events in that case: [16:24:45] Error: Cannot copy file "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\~outlook - Outlook2.ost.tmp" to "S:\computer_DaSi\ffs\Profile\use...

%appdata% is hidden, but not "Office"
i'm mirroring the "USERS" directory with the subdirs and some filters.
ffs is mirroring other files and folders from %appdata% with no notification.

Info: Das Quellelement "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office" wurde nicht gefunden.

What does it mean?
The folder exists!

volker01

Now i have a situation, where it is useful! that the filter doesn't have an effect to the Destination directory: On a computer (with NT6.0) i have to split ffs into more than on tasks, because ffs runs on NT6.0 only in 32bit Mode and cannot mirroring all at once. For that the ffs-config is: ffs-task...

@KronusGT: The only useful way is: take an new ffs-task, mirror with an empty folder to your destination - (clean the destination), then run your normal mirror task with your current filter. This solves not the problem for the future, it's only a workarround. hope that this will be changed... the fi...

Check this: EjectMedia
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools.html

Sure but, i don't won't delete this file in the source. The goal is mirror files and folders to the destination. Later i decide some file from the source should not mirrored to the destination, then ffs should delete this file also in the destination, that is mirroring. We have three variants in fre...

Yes, to the Exclude Filter ...
Do not mirror this file next Mirroring ...
But should this file, then it is in the Exclude Filter - and exist in the destinatation - after next Mirroring - deleted in the Destination?

First: i mirror two folderpairs. All is fine.

Then, i decide a file (or a folder) not to sync and take it to the Filter.
The file or the folder still exist in the Destination.
Is this behavior desired?

volker01

Sure, but the result is:
Warnung: Mit Warnungen abgeschlossen
and i get an mail with backup not successfully ...

Hello Zenju, "WarnSignificantDifference ..." Is possible to set these parameter directly in the gui? Some users have two backup-harddisks and they change it not every day. When users make their backup with with ffs they get the warning: Die folgenden Ordner unterscheiden sich erheblich ......

Hello Plerry,
yes i know that and ffs runs with an user-account with admin privileges, or with the user "system".
The Error-Messages are reproducible and i think i should be on all machines who run ffs with "CopyLockedFiles".

From the FFS Manual: https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=schedule-a-batch-job "if you schedule FreeFileSync to run under a different user account, note that settings (e.g. GlobalSettings.xml) will also be read from a different path, C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync, or in ...

When Syncing ffs with "Copy locked files" results an Windows Eventlog Errors: CAPI2 513 and VSS 8194 --------------- CAPI2 - 513: Fehler beim Kryptografiedienst während der Verarbeitung des "OnIdentity()"-Aufrufobjekts "System Writer". Details: AddLegacyDriverFiles: Una...

Hello Zenju, Why do you change the Sync-Result in the Logfile? (erfolgreich abgeschlossen, successfully ...) Is not secure enough or is it cosmetic? So far, running ffs in Batchmode, after Sync, my bat check the Logfile and search for these text. Sure, it is possible to change it and check the error...