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- 06 Mar 2024, 17:40
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Transfer donation edition to new pc
- Replies: 3
- Views: 230
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: 329
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: 304
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: 230
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: 299
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: 312
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: 299
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: 312
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: 178
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: 642
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: 178
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: 642
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: 136
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:04
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Cannot Read ..\Videos\.lock_11688
- Replies: 3
- Views: 178
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: 247
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: 154
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: 164
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: 167
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
- 28 Feb 2024, 15:37
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Setup local Network
- Replies: 5
- Views: 237
Re: Setup local Network
Don't install anything to do this, it's very easy to Google how to set up a network share on both macOS and Windows. Share the folders that you want other computers to be able to access, then either map them to a drive letter in Windows or mount them on macOS to use as if they were directly connecte...
- 27 Feb 2024, 18:48
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Compare Left to Recycle Bin, Delete If Match Found
- Replies: 3
- Views: 186
Re: Compare Left to Recycle Bin, Delete If Match Found
You could write a .bat script that runs the syncs via command line, one after another. Or use post-sync commands in one config to call another to run
- 27 Feb 2024, 15:41
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Compare Left to Recycle Bin, Delete If Match Found
- Replies: 3
- Views: 186
Re: Compare Left to Recycle Bin, Delete If Match Found
Another sync config that mirrors the network location to the local location? Then anything deleted from the network location will be deleted from the local copy when ran. Or another location pair the syncs MASTER to LOCAL in the same configuration that syncs MASTER to NETWORK
- 26 Feb 2024, 18:35
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Is there any exclude and include within the excluded feature?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 225
Re: Is there any exclude and include within the excluded feature?
And yes, it can be complicated if you are constantly adding/removing folders, because then the filter needs to be changed just as often. But, if the folders are relatively static and only the content inside them changes much, then you don't have to worry about chasing it down. You could also put the...
- 26 Feb 2024, 18:32
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Is there any exclude and include within the excluded feature?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 225
Re: Is there any exclude and include within the excluded feature?
Well, the 'second pair' isn't a whole other configuration, you can have a single FFS config sync multiple pairs. Then it's still a single action to sync everything
- 26 Feb 2024, 18:31
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Transferring huge amounts of data (170TB)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 413
Re: Transferring huge amounts of data (170TB)
https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#limitations If you have a GB of RAM free, you should be fine. Files added during the sync won't be transferred by FFS until another comparison/sync is performed. You could put put them in readonly mode, or simply run another sync to catch any remnants. It seems odd t...
- 26 Feb 2024, 15:28
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Real Time Sync bugs out while I'm copying files
- Replies: 6
- Views: 304
Re: Real Time Sync bugs out while I'm copying files
> RTS still detects changes even if a sync is actively running, as far as I can tell. From the RTS Manual page Limitations: ... While RealTimeSync is executing the command line, monitoring for changed files is temporarily inactive. So, if your RTS command-line is set to execute an FFS sync, RTS is ...
- 26 Feb 2024, 15:19
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Is there any exclude and include within the excluded feature?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 225
Re: Is there any exclude and include within the excluded feature?
You can create a second sync pair to do this. Click the '+' and sync that subfolder directly from the "source" to the "destination", then change the inclusion filter for that pair by removing the '*' and adding the individual subfolders, leaving the exclude section as default. X:...
- 26 Feb 2024, 15:14
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Privacy Issues
- Replies: 2
- Views: 372
Re: Privacy Issues
I made the MISTAKE of donating! In the process my email address and real name were leaked and are even displayed on the website when I go to the About page. I need both removed from any database. Please advise how to get that done. You may want to never use the internet or literally any service in ...
- 25 Feb 2024, 16:26
- Forum: Help
- Topic: how to delete dirs/files by existing at other location
- Replies: 4
- Views: 214
Re: how to delete dirs/files by existing at other location
Well, you could run a comparison, show only equivalent items, select all on the backup-NAS side, and then delete it
- 25 Feb 2024, 16:24
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Irrational distribution of files and rights noticed after update.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 209
Re: Irrational distribution of files and rights noticed after update.
I have to assume that these files are basically templates to base the operable configuration files on and that they a placed on any connected drive at thee time of install. This is wrong and probably where the confusion is. The configuration files can be stored wherever you choose. FFS doesn't dict...
- 25 Feb 2024, 15:49
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Sync computer folder through Google drive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 184