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The "file" giving problems seems to be a link or shortcut (*.lnk), which points to some file or executable. Likely, the linked-to file is in your left or right location, thus creating said overlap. If so, as described here , you can try to set the Symbolic Link Handling to "As link&q...

xCSxXenon explained "bandwidth". The other reason for multiple threads is "latency": E.g. a file access to the remove server takes 200 ms. The processing time on the remote and local servers takes 1 ms. If you make 10 file accesses single-threaded you wait for 10 * (200 + 1) = 20...

@LeoW: I've just deleted your sockpuppet account "sueQ".

There are a few ways:

First, if your client is Windows you can try this:
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3. Rclone - Free sueQ, 22 Oct 2023, 16:38

I've never had to remove a user from this forum yet. You are about to be the first.

Are you by chance behind some VPN or something else is off with your IP address? The web hoster's security system (which is unfortunately out of my control) seems to feel compelled to do a "browser check", which will obviously fail with the FFS app, which is not a browser.

Spacebar will only remove individual (or all selected) items. To remove an entire directory (tree), spacebar will not work. (Used to, I kind of remember, in the past? Cannot Exclude temporarily a Directory if existent ) There is no such difference. Spacebar works for both files and folders that are...

Apparently Apple broke macOS 10.15 support in their latest Xcode 15?!
I've recompiled the macOS release using an older compiler version which seems to have fixed it. Please download FreeFileSync 13.1 from the homepage again.

My apologies if you are upset. That was not my intention. Let me explain. The only problem is the developer of free file sync [...] He keeps bitching at me every time I tell someone how to solve the problem [...] It begins with the letter r and ends in .org. I don't have time for drama, so I'll mak...

From there, can't hurt (I suppose) to post contents of that /FreeFileSync/ directory & the contents of the files therein. therube, 09 Oct 2023, 15:59

I also suspect that the crash might be reproducible with these specific config files.

Okay, let's give it a try. Here are the updated instructions for Linux on how to create a crash dump file: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#crash And to make sure the crash dump matches the latest debugging symbols, here's the current Linux beta: https://www.mediafire.com/file/lprpiso1jt1sksw/FreeFi...

1. "you're dropping it wrong".
2. Even if 1 is true, RTS should understand what you mean and just load the config instead of setting it's directory path => fixed for the next release

FreeFileSync automatically deletes empty versioning folders. Perhaps in your case, the folders are not actually empty and contain hidden files?

I believe the warnings (if read) would have told OP exactly what's going wrong, and as an added bonus even told which exclude filter to set to avoid the recursive versioning issue.

There should have been multiple warnings explaining the problems with this configuration, right?

I've hard-coded the fee calculation until further since it seems (so far) only to affect DE and FR. This should be good enough until PayPal fixes their bug at some unspecified time in the future.

This is due to a PayPal bug affecting donations from France. Paypal is not sending the "fee" amount in the notification message. The bug is reported and acknowledged, ETA (when I had to guess) is days, or weeks. Until then I'm not sure what to do about it as I cannot book the donation with...

Why would you want to change all the drive letters? Isn't this covered by https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=variable-drive-letters
or by using the filter and a single folder pair instead of multiple folder pairs?

The program is called rclone. LeoW, 28 Sep 2023, 15:16

LeoW, did you just register on this forum to be a shill for rclone?
This underhanded kind of advertisement will not be tolerated for too long and should better stop fast.

It amazes me how popular Apple still is when they are the most anti-consumer and anti-convenience developers ever... smh Apple's audacity and indifference is mind-boggling. The wording of their error messages is brazen and ludicrous: FreeFileSync is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it t...

Hmm so maybe this happens on first run only ? Yes, this error can come up on the first run, and only there: There's no database file yet, so FFS falls back on "differences"-based sync directions for "update". In this case the actual value of the file modification time is require...

The "changed-based" sync config has no impact on sync performance.

You're probably using the "old" "Update" variant. With the "changes"-based varant, this error does not occur: viewtopic.php?t=10594

OP simply copied an older file over a newer one on the left side. This change is then propagated to the right. That's how "Two way" sync works: https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=synchronization-settings

it contained a hidden sync.ffs_db file and it was this that was constantly triggering the log file. Adrianlag, 25 Sep 2023, 22:06

A changing sync.ffs_db file does not trigger RealTimeSync. It's specifically excluded.

unexpectedly closes with both my user and root Would root have it's own /.config/FreeFileSync/ ? If so, there's still hope ;-). No, it's the same path in both cases. FFS considers "root" as a request for elevation, not impersonation, in the same way that "run as admin" on Window...

This is a Windows bug: The fonts folder is not shown in the folder picker, because it is incorrectly considered a "file". This is somehow related to the fact that the folder has "system" and "readonly" attributes. Unlike Explorer, FreeFileSync only lists folders by usin...

noooo... that destroyed the test case. I was just about to send troubleshooting instructions. :(

Could this be a simple case of "not enough free memory available"?

A file name that starts with opening spaces, " abc123" is shown as "abc123" in the (FFS) Rename dialog, & the 'Rename' button is grayed out. That's a bug: Fixed for the next version! (But FFS will still not allow to add leading trailing spaces, because this probably doesn't ...

If you wanted to remove the spaces from the source file names, you could use Everything. therube, 21 Sep 2023, 16:16

Would you seriously prefer Everything over FreeFileSync to remove the spaces in this case?