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- 09 Mar 2024, 15:09
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Onedrive & FFS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 675
Re: Onedrive & FFS
Assuming the initial limitation for the 1st sync is to have all OneDrive files locally on the PC. What happens if you later select that sync'd OneDrive folder on the PC and choose the OneDrive option "Free Up Space" ? At the next sync will FFS detect that the freed up files files are now ...
- 08 Mar 2024, 17:22
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Many errors when backing up Mac OS
- Replies: 2
- Views: 219
Re: Many errors when backing up Mac OS
Use Time Machine to back up your OS, it is simply the best option in existence.
FFS is not a system backup/restore tool and shouldn't be relied upon for such use
FFS is not a system backup/restore tool and shouldn't be relied upon for such use
- 08 Mar 2024, 17:20
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Backing up other users' data on Mac
- Replies: 1
- Views: 195
Re: Backing up other users' data on Mac
Of course, the permissions are there to prevent other users from accessing your data.
You can either run FFS from each account for backups or run FFS using sudo from a terminal.
You can either run FFS from each account for backups or run FFS using sudo from a terminal.
- 08 Mar 2024, 17:16
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: error msg?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 570
Re: error msg?
While you may have same named files, what about time & size (your comparison method)? You can see time in W/E, but not in FFS. You can see size in FFS, but not in W/E (at least not to the byte level). Might something have changed the dates of particular files &/or might the file sizes have ...
- 07 Mar 2024, 20:07
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Data taking up more space on destination than on source?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 231
- 07 Mar 2024, 18:27
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: error msg?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 570
Re: error msg?
The only difference I see is the capitalization of 'Mine' on one side. I'm sure it won't make a difference, but what happens if you change it so the folders match identically? Also, what happens if you only sync one of the files? You can click one of the photos and hit ENTER to sync just that one it...
- 07 Mar 2024, 18:03
- Forum: Help
- Topic: No response when I click browse, freezes up!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 208
Re: No response when I click browse, freezes up!
File Explorer works fine?
Reboot computer?
Reboot computer?
- 07 Mar 2024, 03:38
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Does changing source volume name break "detect moved files" (MacOS)?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 336
Re: Does changing source volume name break "detect moved files" (MacOS)?
Can't find any concrete info on what that directory is used for, so it probably has no need to be backed up. I would exclude it. It's definitely a system file location, and FFS isn't a good option for system backup/restore anyway
- 07 Mar 2024, 03:35
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Error Invalid Parameter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 203
Re: Error Invalid Parameter
The timestamp on the original file is probably corrupt/broken and contains a date outside the range that FAT can support. This means copying the file to the FAT location will lose the timestamp and set it to the current date/time, which may result in FFS detecting it as out-of-sync with the source o...
- 07 Mar 2024, 03:33
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Parallel File Copy
- Replies: 2
- Views: 263
- 07 Mar 2024, 03:31
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How to deal with *Extra Files and directories
- Replies: 5
- Views: 348
Re: How to deal with *Extra Files and directories
If you are renaming/moving files, FFS can detect that and avoid duplicating the file on the destination. FFS isn't a duplicate finder though, so make sure you are renaming/moving the file(s), not copying them.
- 06 Mar 2024, 18:25
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How to deal with *Extra Files and directories
- Replies: 5
- Views: 348
Re: How to deal with *Extra Files and directories
You should just use FFS from the get-go then, as it can detect files that are moved/renamed instead of creating duplicates
- 06 Mar 2024, 17:40
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Transfer donation edition to new pc
- Replies: 3
- Views: 233
Re: Transfer donation edition to new pc
Aren't we lazy.
- 06 Mar 2024, 17:37
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How to deal with *Extra Files and directories
- Replies: 5
- Views: 348
Re: How to deal with *Extra Files and directories
You probably want to add /MIR to your RocoCopy command, no?
- 06 Mar 2024, 16:00
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Does changing source volume name break "detect moved files" (MacOS)?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 336
Re: Does changing source volume name break "detect moved files" (MacOS)?
You should have run a sync before changing the name. Then, the moves/renames would have been detected as such, and then the matching operation would be performed on the destination rather than a delete-then-recopy. If you had done that, you could have changed the name to "Downloads", then ...
- 06 Mar 2024, 15:54
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Transfer donation edition to new pc
- Replies: 3
- Views: 233
Re: Transfer donation edition to new pc
How embarrassing. This exact question was asked and answered literally two days ago. That's so bad that I'll let you find it yourself
- 05 Mar 2024, 16:07
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Why isn't the ffs_lock file deleted after the sync job is done?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 311
Re: Why isn't the ffs_lock file deleted after the sync job is done?
Figure out what is interfering
- 05 Mar 2024, 15:18
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Moving donation license to a new pc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 317
Re: Moving donation license to a new pc
Maybe there is a lack of consistency but I have it installed on six devices without issues, and others are only reporting a warning once they get to 10 installs...Well no. I get three installs. DeirdreYoung, 04 Mar 2024, 20:03
- 05 Mar 2024, 15:16
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Why isn't the ffs_lock file deleted after the sync job is done?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 311
Re: Why isn't the ffs_lock file deleted after the sync job is done?
Something else is interfering before FFS can delete them
- 04 Mar 2024, 20:00
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Moving donation license to a new pc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 317
Re: Moving donation license to a new pc
For donation edition, you may not even need to uninstall it. You will probably be fine just installing it on the new computer
- 03 Mar 2024, 21:14
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Filtering out appdata and dumping stuff in the recycle bin?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 183
Re: Filtering out appdata and dumping stuff in the recycle bin?
Yes, use the star version since a '*' is a wildcard that matches anything
- 03 Mar 2024, 20:48
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Donation Edition stops working!!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 668
Re: Donation Edition stops working!!!
Good luck with those other options that lack the features of FFS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- 03 Mar 2024, 20:45
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Filtering out appdata and dumping stuff in the recycle bin?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 183
Re: Filtering out appdata and dumping stuff in the recycle bin?
Switch the exclusion to '*\AppData\"
or "\Users\%username%\AppData\"
Your current setting is excluding "\Users\Appdata\" which doesn't exist
or "\Users\%username%\AppData\"
Your current setting is excluding "\Users\Appdata\" which doesn't exist
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:11
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Donation Edition stops working!!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 668
Re: Donation Edition stops working!!!
Or simply trust me. Ha That's rich, end users can never be trusted lol Any suggestions on what other data could be collected to uniquely identify a device without being too intrusive to the end user? Also "20XW0055GE" isn't unique, it's a product ID for the device model so thousands of pe...
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:07
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Copy only file properties
- Replies: 1
- Views: 141
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:04
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Cannot Read ..\Videos\.lock_11688
- Replies: 3
- Views: 183
Re: Cannot Read ..\Videos\.lock_11688
Yes, the executable itself was not locked, but it was the one locking the file. It's an Nvidia feature to do stuff, but it requires saving data into a temp file, which is what you are seeing.
- 01 Mar 2024, 15:38
- Forum: Help
- Topic: How to sync Folders but not files?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 257
Re: How to sync Folders but not files?
A picture of the whole FFS window might help
- 01 Mar 2024, 15:15
- Forum: Help
- Topic: how does unchecking a checkbox differ from do nothing?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 157
Re: how does unchecking a checkbox differ from do nothing?
1) Basically the same as far as I can tell. Possibly an older layout may have provided a more prominent use case for the checkboxes 2) Can't you just run the sync? Then the modification times would be the same. Or you could use RoboCopy: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10823 Or if the...
- 28 Feb 2024, 15:41
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Recovering Files from Recycle Bin
- Replies: 1
- Views: 170
Re: Recovering Files from Recycle Bin
FFS shouldn't be leaving any temporary recycle bin folders, FFS deletes to the "Recycle Bin" that Windows uses, if set to do so. Don't check the actual recycle bin folders on the drive itself, check the Windows "Recycle Bin", which shows all contents of every recycle bin connected
- 28 Feb 2024, 15:38
- Forum: Help
- Topic: trouble installing the setup.exe & setup.key
- Replies: 2
- Views: 172
Re: trouble installing the setup.exe & setup.key
Don't extract to the Program files folder, that it not how you install programs onto a computer. You extract/unzip the compressed folder you download, then run the exe inside the extracted folder. When you unzip it, just set the location to be where the original zip is