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Open Outlook first? How long does it take to back up your PST? Use a scheduled task to sync?

[Quote]It does not need to be added, it is already there and just needs to be used/activated. See [URL]. My suggestion was to use the Time stamp [File] Versioning method rather tha…

Hello Plerry, Thanks so much for your hint and clarifications. You opened a new door on my comprehension of synchronizing files. I had read about Detect Moved Files in the Help sec…

[Quote] It is not "folder syncing" but "detection of moved files" that is only supported for certain file system and doesn't happen the first time.

I see how that would be helpful, it wouldn't be intrusive either because the icon status is there, as you said.

it shouldn't apply to */*.* regardless. the entire folder is 950MB currently, generally the files that are changed is at most about 1MB each. (the network is fast enough that a ful…

xCSxXenon - Sounds good. My Win10 laptop will arrive next week and then I'll have a chance to set it up and connect to my Win7 destop.

Thanks for reporting back! Hopefully you get it sorted easily

Additional to the above: you can run a Compare in the FFS GUI and then export the file list as a *.csv file via Tools > Export file list . If you open such *.csv file e.g. in Excel…

Thank you so much!! I never thought to move the mouse...duh. This deserves another donation!

Thanks for clarifying the Pause behaviour. I'll use that when I know I'm not going to be on Ethernet :) (does sftp even allow for files to be paused midway? I guess you could send …

Thank you, I will try it...

Wonderful help, thank you so much guys.

Google Drive has a certain delay until it notifies applications via its API about changes. For files deleted on Google drive it can take 10-20 sec until an app sees this change. Th…

[Quote] What comparison method? If by Content, date/time are ignored. If by Time and Size, obviously different dates (& sizes) will affect results.

Fantastic, will do. Looking forward to giving FreeFileSync a try. Thanks again.

More discussion here: [URL] Definitely worth looking into still, the time estimates are pretty much useless, like Windows estimations. Since really nothing has ever been good, I do…

Worked like a charm, Thank you,

Maybe the developer wants to force the dissatisfied users to accept this view, but this will hardly succeed.

Oh I see! Yes, that only leaves the one solution you provided... Hopefully you get something worked out!

That would definitely work! It's simple, even though it's not technically the 'best' since you add another failure point, but that may be acceptable to you!

Do not work.

Yes, you can call the FFS executable with the ffs_batch file as the parameter

Had a quick test with the beta, works like a charm. Definitely improves the usability for me, because I usually have my hands on the keyboard and not on the mouse. Thanks for the f…

Thank you for the suggestion. Yes it is technically doable. Although I would very much prefer not to add more layers of complexity. Adding more scripts adds more places where thing…

First of all, I would like to thank Zenju for such an amazing quality software and extreme responsiveness. A solid action was completely unexpected let alone the timing of it. Awes…

The first error is probably caused by a drive that needs a chkdsk ran on it. It probably needs chkdsk for a reason though, either it wasn't unmounted correctly or it is failing, te…

Zip extraction is part of Windows, no need to buy Winzip. Alternatively there's also 7-Zip: [URL]

That's interesting as I did not create a RTS. Maybe it was due to creating a Task Schedule. I opened 2 windows on the screen, each window being a drive directory (2 different HDDs)…

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There is no difference compared to installing the standard version.

I would wager a guess on how the NAS is setup. I think it came up because Linux/ext4 used file IDs that change instead of staying, thus it is a 'different' file.

Before your actual sync, you can look in the Compare result window. After the sync, you can check the log-file. F4 or the icon left below the Compare result Window.

[Quote] What a happy coincidence; I have been thinking about exactly that over the past few days. Thank-you for reading my mind.

Nice! I've partially integrated the patch + added additional fixes for cross-platform compatibility on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The simplest way to correctly add items to your Exclude (or Include) Filter is run a compare in the FFS GUI, select the item and use the context menu (right-click).

Also, nice theming improvements! I guess I use generic themes that have not incurred a need to fix FreeFileSync. Next FreeFileSync version or rebuild (I do that infrequently, betwe…

This only affects the cosmetics. Since the drive doesn't have a letter, it defaults to that ?:\... path. Once it sees the drive, it works normally. There is another thread around h…

Fixed! There were two issues here: [Code] [URL]

Also added for the next version: [Quote]

[Quote] Indeed this seems to be a bug in [URL] when a panel is floating and only affects GTK (no such issue on Windows/macOS). Maybe this will be fixed with GTK3? (one could hope a…

Yes. I am sure it is the real file and not a link. I copy those files to my SD card using Finder on my MAC in before. Those files are normal 20M to 150M FLAC files playable on my d…

If your wife shuts down her PC/laptop after working at night, you can [URL] to be run upon shutdown. Otherwise you may look into using [URL] to launch FreeFileSync upon detecting f…

Why not just wait until the sync is done before updating?

Wow, that was fast! Thanks.

@whalehead99: You say you found a place to set the timeout duration AND the retry count. Could you explain where you found those settings?

I am running FreeFileSync on a Windows 2012 R2 server, with RealTimeSync setup as a batch job in Task Scheduler. The batch job user ONLY has "logon as batch" permissions and not "l…

Any local, external or network disk (in any format) you are able to mount in your MacOS, you should be able to sync when running FFS on your Mac. But, you may need [URL].

Thanks, That was very helpful.

Hi Zenju, I use it with Debian Stable. Is there a Beta version for Linux available ?