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I literally already answered your question in my above reply [Quote]

Works fine! Thank you.

First of all, congratulations and thank you for this extraordinary program. I have a suggestion: that it be possible to create groups of sessions and that they can be expanded and …

When comparing the contents of two very large folders of several gigabytes or more, the process can take several minutes or even hours and can include a huge number of files. Curre…

Suppose I have a folder with lots of files. The dates have gotten changed on some of them, and I have to get them sorted out. The trouble comes when there are files with the same c…

Nice to see another person appreciate this. I just made a post a couple hours ago requesting all the images.

MacOS installer says to locate the Security & Privacy preference but on Tahoe it's labels Privacy & Security.

Well?

The program will scan the full destination for the very first time only or only if the user initiates a manual scan. After that, the program will track only changes to the source t…

UPDATE: Final version 1.0 (macOS Tahoe & legacy compatibility) I would like to share my final script with the community, hoping it might be useful for other macOS users. While I de…

Run 14.8 linux installer. When I read the license (pressing S) I saw Putty but FreeFileSync license. Should you use its own license?

@Plerry As far as I know, "Fail-safe file copy" uses ".ffs_tmp" even if a file is being newly created (without overwriting a pre-existing version). Otherwise an incomplete file wou…

It's a progress display. The yellow progresses as the sync progresses, and you don't have to open it to check status

If you don't display folders in the comparison, you can't right click "exclude temporarily", which is quite convenient for me. I simply think that file inside folders that are mark…

[Quote] Fair comment - I worked around it until it was sufficiently no longer annoying :-)

FFS is failing to write the log files to its AppData directory.

NO! Rclone is merely a software program that mounts cloud storage and other drives so that they can be used with free file sync. For example I use Linux in addition to Windows and …

If you start your batch job by double-clicking your .ffs_batch file, it ends and close? If not, then you must check [x] Auto-close and [x] Ignore errors

I agree this would be a useful feature, this causes an issue when backing up large files and everything other device just stops dead. An issue with some other solutions is that it …

Thanks for the reply, I do have it set for Delete and Overwrite, I have now switched off Fail Safe File Copy. I can see in the comparison list many files way down the list to be de…

You can run FFS via CLI. Just have your script run the FFS sync after it completes

[Quote] Enable it via menu->tools: options.

Using multiple configurations is certainly a workable solution if a bit inconvenient. I would need to setup multiple/many configuration and performing a synchronisation, possibly m…

I created a little helper-script for that and linked it in the OT: [URL]

2 additions to my suggestion: If a Compare run should reveal that the "bottom line" of syncing would exceed free space on dest: Pop a message box and... If a Compare run should rev…

Thank you, I understand. That was already clear to me.

I'm sorry, I didn't see that post with my previous search settings. Thanks!

[URL] (the bottom-left video) And the earlier mentioned [URL] To automatically start a FreeFileSync (FFS) synchronization, see [URL] To automatically start a RealTimeSync (RTS) job…

[Quote] Great! Thank you!

On the developer side, the revenue model for a lot of OSS, while still being maintained, is allowing free personal use and then charging for commercial use. And then personal passi…

lol

Thx, just needed some reassurance.

Thanks you this is very helfpul

Thank you for your reply. It works with beta version 14.8.

I don't think it's a good idea to show important information (as base folders is) only when hovering at them. However I wonder why you didn't give that simple answer at first place…

(IMO) If ones Compare is Time & Size, one is much more likely to run into situations where Time & Size (with size displayed as KB...) that you may end up questioning why a update t…

[URL] You can also use a disk space analyzer to get more detailed information. I use WizTree on Windows and it shows size and space on disk, which is probably where your mismatch i…

An FFS Compare+Sync only starts at times that you manually start such Compare +Sync, e.g. from the FFS GUI or by double-clicking a saved *.ffs_batch configuration, or at times that…

FFS is not a bitrot detection utility. Sure, you can probably spend enough time hacking together a solution that accomplishes such a thing, but there are tools made for this task s…

Desktop is a default folder in a user's "home" directory for probably every single OS out there. Deleting it is likely to cause issues

I got a replay on the github page. Correct is the following command: [Code]

XC and Plerry, thank you for the reply, very much appreciated. Onto the setup for the project. Cheers

> The slowdown is much more likely the overhead on the metadata overhead, **but this still wouldn't be solved by syncing into a compressed directory either** I disagree. The import…

I also want to install the donation version to docker on my NAS. There is a docker version for the normal FreeFileSync Version: [URL] and there is also a feature request for it: [U…

Thanks Plerry and xCS. I could, I suppose, use a utility to append the genre. Maybe Advanced Renamer will do that - I will check it out. But it would be a nuisance with 15,000 file…

What you are asking for (a date range) is already there: [URL]. Your mentioned "X previous days" is however not available, other than by You can setting the upper date as far in th…

Hello, I am writing to follow up on my previous emails regarding the Tax Residency Certificate for the year 2025 related to our purchase of FreeFileSync. I have already contacted y…

Thanks for your reply. I agree that we have all the information we need to manage and control the definition settings, clearly presented through the application and its menus, and …

I second this feature. To provide some context: I work on Unity projects. These have a folder called Library. This folder contains hundreds of thousands of files that are not cruci…

Hmm that sounds painful. I can see why you would care about folder timestamps being preserved but I am glad that I don't. :)