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Well, FFS first needs to read the file names, dates and sizes, before it is able to apply its Include and/or Exclude Filter rules based on [URL] and/or [URL]. How else would FFS be…

[Quote] I know this is an older post but may be helpful for other people. Consumer google drive has some sort of algorithm for throttling. I run into this quite often as I have a M…

Just opened the application for the first time and there is a button on the welcome screen. Apologies for the wasted bytes.

Hi, Checked FAQ's but not listed so is WIN SRV 2022 ok for full folder permission acl copies etc? Thanks,

Comparing the file content of huge amounts of files between 2 drives can be a lengthy process, there would be some situations that would be needed to pause the comparing operation,…

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Ah, good to know. Does this happen enough to be worrisome for the average "not essential" nightly "just in case backup" sync? Like the next night it will be corrected?

The official 11.26 version is not available yet (status 8 September 2022), but given the rate at which Zenju releases updates, you can likely expect v11.26 pretty soon.

Alternatively: Backup [Quote] to [Quote] with the standard Include Filter

[Quote] Custom background colors via a color picker menu option has been implemented for FFS 11.26!

> ... and they update the destination folder as needed In order to determine what needs to be synced, FFS (also) has to read the destination location(s). FFS searches the destinati…

Your expectations are incorrect. FFS ignores data outside of its filters entirely

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> Since you two do not seem to exactly agree When in doubt, follow the advice of Zenju. After all, Zenju is the author of FFS; I am just a (meanwhile) experienced user.

@Plerry Folder1 is not a root folder, it is just one of the thousands of deeply nested folders in the drive that I am syncing, that's why this approach doesn't help. So my workarou…

Hi, I've configured the pause before disabling the network adapter but the email notification do not start because start after the command. FIX REQUEST 😁: execute email notificatio…

here is just a sharing (it may not be the best way, i don't know.) sourcefolder, transitfolder, finalfolder my use: 1: sync all folders (without files) by exclude *: from sourcefol…

sorry i was not clear enough!! by 'folder structure' i meant actually ALL folders. anyway, many thanks for the reply!! Marki.

[Quote] [Code] "hr" is HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_SERVICE_DISABLED), but the exception is not thrown. Why? I actually had to debug to see the typo. And there's not even a compiler wa…

Sounds like "G" is failing or has a spotty cable

I've searched but can't find a suggestion for this feature, running on Windows. Specifically, I'd find it useful to be able to add a sorting feature to the post-sync log screen, in…

hi I don't want to be log file created if Info: Nothing to synchronize, or source folder cannot be found. Was that possible? Only want to ffs create log file if something in source…

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Using full paths seems to be a common error that FFS could detect and also fix in most cases. Implemented for the next version: [Attachment] [URL]

Ok, I read more and got the answer to my Q. Both modes are possible, very easily. FFS is the best!!

As long as they can see each other in File Explorer, FFS will work

Yes, It was set to "Follow" but for some reason it didn't work. I've tried few days later and it has synched as expected. Thank you for answering.

That is how we use it actual, but it would be for other users more comfortable if it is chooseable due to the dropdown menu like shutdown actual is. Greetings from Berlin

That's pretty much it. Thank you very much.

...unless the exclusion is applied *after* comparison, in which case excluded files are included in the list. FFS doesn't throw away information it already has (but has to during c…

I think your first "Compressed.png" layout looks great. That particular set of buttons is overly large, IMO, and I would prefer they were the same size as the configuration buttons…

what worked for me (after first failure copying only executables) was copying all 3 dat files: registered.dat, install.dat and animal.dat from the new location to the installation …

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If you drag and drop a shortcut on the main window, FFS will automatically fill in the shortcut's target. I'm not sure if FFS should go even further and accept shortcuts as input p…

For the record, there is no need to delete corrupted database files manually. FFS will do this automatically during the next sync, after showing the error message: [URL]

Sure. If using "Mirror", make sure to restore the data to the new computer before setting up the backup again or the new empty desktop with mirror and delete the backup. You could …

[Quote] Whoops. Forgot to search first. Thank you Zenju. D

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that is great!! many thanks!!!

that is great!! many thanks!!!

[Quote] Actually for the sync I want to do this option "Detect moved files" is not available because my settings are: If item exists only on left side --> do noting Left is newer -…

Hi. Just found this thread through the search, I too would like to be able to either parse .gitignore or have something like .ffsignore to make exclusions easier to manage. I'm afr…

Thank you for the information. I found it and edited the GlobalSettings.xml file. Why isn't this option in the GUI? It seems like it is something that I should be able to just put …

What do you think?

Why for the first folder shown it does not have it's own line (python\lib\site-packages) (on the left side), but for the others, they have their own line?

Almost certainly, these files starting with ~$ are temporary MS-office "backup"-files of each file that was open in MS-Office at the time of running the FFS sync. You can exclude t…

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Chances are good we might be able to work around this issue: [Quote] [URL]

Syncovery definitely can do it… though I‘d love to see FFS having it implemented. Syncovery is way slower for me and so I‘m always doing a first run with FFS and then a second one …

Using [URL] That string converts to yesterday's date/time. I don't have an expire number in my URL, so not sure if it actually means anything. It may just contain the donation time…