FreeFileSync Forum

I noticed the same behaviour running UniGetUI: leaving a window open for a while leaves a ghost window. There appears to be a work-around: if you restart Desktop Window Manager (dw…

The same, I have a few configurations with many sync pairs and often I'd only like to run a few of them - so I need to keep many different configurations. Toggle on/off sync pairs …

Hi, There is a free open source app that might be better Suited for locating and dealing with duplicate files. It's called dupeguru [URL] It will rapidly locate all duplicate files…

Divide your large sync in multiple smaller sync configurations. Then use a script to launch those smaller syncs in succession, with your desired pause in between.

Just switched to Fedora KDE last week. What is the best option to install FreeFileSync on Fedora KDE?

[Quote] Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. I've found this before, but I always forget about it because it's not easily discoverable in the GUI. Perhaps discov…

[Quote] Thanks Plerry. Unfortunately, doing so would ruin my workflow, as I find the FFS GUI very useful to manually run desired sync configs one after another within the FFS GUI. …

FFS sync configs include a useful option to run a command after the sync has completed. What I will appreciate is for sync configs to also have an option to run a command when the …

> it would really speed up things with a option to scan each sequaltially That option is already available via the "Run a command" option, at the bottom of the Synchronization Sett…

Would it be possible to add, in a future version, the option to define a percentage threshold for the differences between folders according to our requirements? The reason is that …

Thank you very much! I just installed the beta, and it works. Do you have an estimate when version 14.11 will be released? I didn't realize that the business version is a different…

This could be done with a batch script or PowerShell script as well, and is more likely than it being implemented in FFS

[Quote] This is how basically every system-wide program is installed and how it works??? Microsoft Office installs to Program Files but has user settings, because duh. Are you impl…

I'd be suspicious too. If a file has a different size, left vs. right, it cannot be identical, so date at that point is relatively irrelevant. And, it would prompt me to say, "hey,…

Would be really nice if Registered.dat could be read from the settings dir or something similar. then this would enable installing the regular version and put your license file som…

[Quote] That's wonderful news, thank you very much!

Fixed for next release: [URL]

[Quote]I had to check, but [URL] SHA256 does not include/compare ADS-data.

FFS creates a database to track file deletions/updates. The file name is different for Windows and Linux. Usually that is not a huge issue. It just tracks it twice. This topic also…

For different reasons, FreeFileSync (FFS) writes files at the start of its sync or during its sync, that are removed when/after the syncs ends. This can be a sync.ffs_lock file (se…

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I also encountered this issue now on version 14.9. The instance gets hidden. However, there is no item in the menu bar (which is what 'minimize to notification area' sounds like it…

My OS is Linux, Debian 13. I just found how to set the order, from "Select a folder" panel: - Right-click on the title of a column (e.g. Name). - Appears a pop-up where to choose d…

@d.andras If you get the donation version which I have you can set the app to automatically email you when the job completes. You will get an email either saying that it was succes…

Hello. Is there a possibility for the developers to add the "notes" box from the "Synchronization Settings" to the main window (or even as a messagebox), so that shese notes will b…

You can define a ComputerName specific Versioning folder. (That is, specific to the Computer that on which your FFS sync runs, not the Computer the file that gets deleted or overwr…

Proper backup strategy is the solution to that

> I want to back up only the files that are being updated. Again, it is unclear what you mean, and that unclarity concerns two aspects in above quote. • As asked before, but not re…

[Quote] I want to move the files from my Google drive path to my local D: drive path, what is the command to delete the files in the google drive after they are copied/updated to t…

If all files with a name starting with 01 have the same folder depth to your left and right base location, you should still be able to do it. As per your example: 1. \foo\01 myFold…

I'm having the same problem, any solutions or tips?

Thank you!

This is a synchronization tool, not cp/rsync/rclone...

Just fork [URL] and let us know about any meaningful contributions.

Those are not included in the source for the application. They're not strictly required for building the application from these generated C++ files. It would be cool to see them, h…

Eh, WinGet and package managers in general are pretty great. Being able to load/update with software-agnostic CLI is awesome. Couple problems with FFS being on WinGet though: - Sil…

+1 Why one of the most important options is hidden from the GUI is beyond me. To reduce the influence of any cache on the receiving side the verification process should not run bet…

Would it be possible for FreeFileSync to remember the size of the Synchronization Settings window? I use long paths, and that window is so narrow it results in wrapping, which make…

You need to use the "Mirror" variant: "Update" is not an option of it, is a totally different variant.

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Please implement a custom secure copy setting for tasks, rather than a general one in the settings. For example, to sync with "S3" storage, you need to disable this option to preve…

Thank you for the explanation. I'm basically wanting to do an incremental backup starting from a specific date. The "This Month" Time Span filter will be fine for my requirement. T…

You're right; converting it to .txt must have changed the encoding. Strangely enough, both versions run without a hitch on my computer—UTF-8-BOM is the correct encoding.

Anyone else that wants the time estimation to be improved? I guess we have a pretty good strategy worked out in this thread.

In FFS the comparison progress is shown docked at the top of the FFS-window. I really love this, because no extra window is shown. The synchronization progress is a separate window…

Yes that's what I discovered too. That is precisely the feature that I was suggesting should be added - and I can't imagine it should be too complicated. I t would be very useful, …

"\999" is going to be a subset of "*\999" and produces no difference in your limited dataset. Just because: 111*: \111*: *\111*: all end up with the same result in your tests, does…

I suppose you refer to the "time-stamp" naming convention used in Versioning. For the "time-stamp [File]" option I don't think you can (unless you change the program source and com…

Thank you, I'll get on with it.