FreeFileSync Forum

On Linux, all I have to do is move the ding.wav and gong.wav files to somewhere else. I found them in /usr/share/FreeFileSync/ but could be placed in a number of different places. On Windows, it'll probably be C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\ or C:\Program Files (x86)\FreeFileSync\

This is not an official way to install FreeFileSync on Fedora, but I have compiled the application in an rpm in a Community Packages Repo (copr) for Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bgstack15/stackrpms/

Would you please consider making the local logs directory underneath ~/.config or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if defined? This would match the de facto standard of the XDG base directory spec . Thank you for your efforts in writing and maintaining this application! I use it on Fedora Linux weekly. I could use ...

FreeFileSync is exclusively a graphical application as far as I know. This means that you need a working display (normally X11, or Wayland nowadays). An application normally works with a display defined by the environment variable DISPLAY. The console is normally DISPLAY=:0. That is, the value is co...

I think the upstream team, i.e. Zenju and his team, provide the official downloads . All other releases of the software are provided by other individuals, and community distributions don't get the same attention as the official upstream releases. Sometimes, the contributor only made the one version....

The issue of the icons used by .desktop files is usually left up to the distro. Upstream developers, like Zenju, can package their application however they wish. The details of .desktop files and icons and general OS integration are usually left up to the distros because they tend to have particular...

Ah, you might need to install package nfs-client or nfs-common. I don't remember the differences between them. I know some distros don't include the nfs packages by default, which confuses me. So, run: sudo apt-get install nfs-common Now, once you insert something in /etc/fstab, you need to run moun...

That depends what you mean by startup app. If you're thinking extremely low level, you would insert a sysvinit start script or systemd unit file. What you probably mean is you want the graphical application to start upon logging in to your desktop environment. Source: Ask Ubuntu #37957 Make a file u...

I suspect the mount command is failing because of the duplicate UNC options. It's possible you don't need the UNC option listed at all, because the mount command is going ahead and putting it in the full command it tries to execute. Or, it's possible the unc path should use forward slash / character...

Oh, sorry. The "SAMBAUSER" was supposed to be replaced with whatever user account that has access to the network share. So it could be "admin," or "gcvdberg," or something else. I personally use "public" with one of my generic passwords from the past for all m...

In bash, you should use single quotes to protect the strings that contain slash \ symbols. If you don't, the slashes will be interpreted as escape characters, so they will "escape" the following character. Try this: sudo mount -v -t cifs -o 'ip=192.168.178.17,unc=\\192.168.178.17\Public,us...

This page shows up in a search result: https://askubuntu.com/questions/108462/mount-unable-to-find-suitable-address. I bet some of those options are worth trying. The main one to try: Try using the netbios name as the share name (i.e., //servername/folder1/folder2/...) and include a -o ip=192.168.17...

Can you share the output of:

I come from the Fedora side of the Linux family, so my debian-fu is weak. On Fedora, you need to install cifs-utils package (dnf install cifs-utils) to be able to mount SMB shares as a regular mount point. To see what is currently mounted, in a terminal enter "mount" just by itself. An SMB...

Do you already have a mountpoint on the filesystem for your NAS? I.e., do you have it mounted so you can access it as "/mnt/NAS1/mydirectory"? Or are you using some other string to connect to in Nemo?

How to compile FreeFileSync 10.1 on Fedora Tested on Fedora 28 1. Install build dependencies. dnf install -y boost-devel compat-wxGTK3-gtk2-devel gcc-c++ gtk+-devel gtk3-devel wxGTK-devel wxGTK3-devel 2. Fetch and extract source wget --user-agent 'Firefox 60.0 (GNU/Linux) X11' -L https://www.freefil...

Thank you for sharing that! You inspire me to post the build instructions for Fedora 28, when I get around to doing it for the latest version of FreeFileSync. I realize the link is another page on this same site, but would you mind sharing the exact instructions in toto here as well? Also, please sh...

Not really. FreeFileSync is for files. In addition to the files on the filesystem, a hard disk contains a master boot record and partition table. Those are not copied by FreeFileSync, to my knowledge. If you want to clone a disk, you could use the dd utility. See https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/2-meth...

If the officially-provided version was compiled on Intel x86_64, which I suspect it was (and you could verify by running file "file /usr/bin/FreeFileSync"), it will not execute on the ARM-based processors. You'll have to compile it yourself.

Relatedly, would you be interested in sharing the source tree in a version control system? I appreciate the source code from your tarballs, but with the source tree, the guys who package it could have an easier time seeing changes and contributing to the project.

Xurc, in a cli environment you are probably going to be interested in using rsync. Now, about compiling, is it possible to compile on a dev system that includes gtk, and then execute on a system without gtk? About the packages that provide that file, on my Fedora machine: [bgstack15@fc27x-02a|/home/...

Unfortunately, those are all pretty different and have high chances of dependency problems on Arch Linux. You could just try them. I know that on my Fedora system, the OpenSUSE package sometimes works, if the current Fedora release was older in its release cycle (that is, Fedora 25 was current and i...

I did run into that. I think I had looked up the 9.7 code and put it back in,whatever it was.

Thanks for the further help!

I was able to compile it on Fedora 27! I don't understand what happened on that first vm. I just started over on a second vm (after I totally ruined the first one, through some qcow2 disk manipulation that went wrong). I had also tried to compile webkitgtk4, but it kept showing some weird error: # r...

I'm pretty sure it's how Fedora packaged webkitgtk. I'm going to have to fiddle with that package. In the mean time, @Nori13, I was reading your comments on AUR, and I don't want to make an account there. So if you ever see this, here you go: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freefilesync/?comments...

@Nori13, help me out if you get a chance. What version of /usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so are you using to compile? In Fedora it comes from package webkitgtk4-2.18.6-1.fc27.x86_64, and https://webkitgtk.org/ indicates that is the current stable version. It looks like manjaro is using the same versio...

I'm still using xBRZ 1.6. I fixed the image_resources.cpp errors above by including the xbrz.cpp file in the Makefile: CPP_LIST+=../../xBRZ/src/xbrz.cpp But I'm still facing the libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 error. I'm guessing it's a library problem with Fedora's current version of that library. I'm stil...

I'm trying to compile FreeFileSync in Fedora. Here's what I've found so far. xBRZ is another project by Zenju: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbrz/ Extracting the source zip to FreeFileSync/Source/../../xBRZ/src/ lets me past this error, but now I have a new one I'm about to investigate. Using xBR...

The file to execute is the 8.3MB FreeFileSync. I guess I've been compiling it all wrong (with debug symbols?). If your file manager works like so: double-clicking on FreeFileSync should execute or ask you to execute it. Make sure it's the program, but I'm confident it will be. Use that file in the ....

I observed that the file I mentioned in the strace output, when it segfaulted, is a symlink. I wonder if that is the cause of the problem. I am now compiling FreeFileSync 9.7, released a few days ago. I am still compiling on gcc 7.2.1.2.fc27.x86_64 against gtk3. Somehow, when I package the utility u...