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Thanks and sorry for this later reply - some health issues at the moment. I've just realised what's going on - I didn't know that the Select View buttons worked in conjunction with…

Please add an option to delete log files older than a parameter number of days.

Should I assume that silence means it won't happen?

FTP will be supported in a future version: [URL]

Hello, I have a lot of mirroring jobs and some are backing up read-only network share, others are backing up local directories. With the default value of LockDirectoriesDuringSync …

Hi! I need connect my gdrive account to FFS. What I must fill into "server name/IP adress"? Thanks for advice

It's fine, nobody should have to read a manual as a precondition to using FFS. But I would have hoped that the "show examples" link in the sync settings dialog is placed strategica…

We just donated to be able to silently install FreeFileSync through our SCCM system but now it seems that there is an installation limit per day for this donation version. How can …

Hello, I LOVE freefilesync. One thing I'd appreciate in the next edition (so I don't have to do the math) is have a items copied tally. It has an Items remaining with size, time re…

So they are. Thanks

Thank you Zenju for this reply. Best regards.

The Accessed date/time on a mirror copy remains the same on the Destination drive as it is on the Source drive. The Created and Modified date/times are copying over correctly, but …

The old help file is (currently) still present in the installation directory.

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Well since it is open source, as long as you follow the license, you are free to create and distribute your own installer, including silent, and not including any ads if you don't …

Does FreeFileSync support synchronization from Windows to Linux? If it does, will it carry over the AD file permissions over to the Linux (both Windows and Linux servers will belon…

Hi Thx for this soft, beautiful, easy. it would be great to have this feature: Restore files that were overwritten or deleted in previous syncs like in Synkron ( synkron.sourcefor…

Hi, First, kudos for an incredible software! I have a suggestion for a future release: implement multipart SFTP transfers. In this day and age of fiber access, multipart transfers …

Hi, is there a way to ignore leading/trailing whitespaces in the file content when i am using the compare function?

[Quote] You're passing a RTS configuration to FFS which expects a ffs_batch.

I want to set a sync server to sync many to one servers while maintaining versioning. It would be easier to maintain and manage if we did all the scripting from one server and pull…

Hi all, I am looking for a sync solution for my two macs and am wondering if FreeFileSync is the right one. I would like to have a bidirectional sync setup for specific folders con…

Good day! Need help settings. On the local disk exist folder_1 with a file that is updated each hour for a new one. We need from folder_1 file move to folder_2 and remove it from f…

Hello everybody, FreeFileSync is an amazing tool and it's great to see how actively it is maintained. Yet, frequent updates also bring the burden of constantly having to update the…

SFTP for MAC will be available in the upcoming FFS 8.6.

Ladies and Gents, Apologies if I have missed something but is there any way to check the status of a scheduled task on a windows box. To clarify: I can tell that the task is still …

Hi, Whether on Windows or Linux, there are standard OS utilities to do it. Task manager in Windows, various schedulers on Linux... Wouldn't that meet your needs?

I've changed the search backend to "MySQL Fulltext" instead of "phpBB Native Fulltext". Searching should have less limitations now.

I think I'm describing the same thing [URL] and [URL].

Am I asking for the same "compare only local files" feature [URL]?

I am using OSX El Capitan 10.11.6. I would like to backup my Photos library to an external drive "Foto Library.photoslibrary" but I received an error : Cannot open directory "/Volu…

Hello, First off great tool! Lovining it! I am running into an issue. Just put in a 10TB Storage blade and it is already almost 3/4's full. This was odd to me so I looked into it a…

Simply comparing by file content should find all corrupt files, doesn't it?

Hi, Are on Windows, Mac, Linux? The procedure differs depending on your O/S... See [URL] for more info if you run Windows... Also this post: [URL] on Ubuntu. Although it does not w…

[Quote] Did you actually read the link posted by Plerry??? The file is where all the settings should be: into your own appdata folder! From the help page linked: "To locate this fi…

Would be very nice FFS verifying files after sync without our interference in line 13 <VerifyCopiedFiles Enabled="false"/> after every update .

Wouldn't this would be an overhead on the workstation because it would always have to be running. best to schedule the backups with Task Scheduler so that there is a small footprin…

It would be really handy if FFS could be configured to compare some (e.g. 10%) of the files each time it runs such that over the course of a certain number of runs (e.g. 10 runs) a…

yes, found that setting there and ticked that. Thanks.

Today, I faced a problem because of no settings file. (as mentioned in other thread requesting to have a "hard disk" settings file.) I am taking a backup of all my settings files o…

I do not know your specific case, but ... I have a use-case where I am running a sync against a NAS. When I run a first sync, my NAS needs to de-hibernate, spinning up the disks. O…

I am interested in this feature. I would like to copy back equal files (full contents) from remote disk to my local disk when the timestamps different. This happens when using git …

Ok, or i would need to configure my OS accordingly, so that the buffers are also used after restart. Thanks for the quick response. Edit: I'm backuping circa 3tb data by comparing …

I've added support for copying the folder creation times on OS X, too.

I've added support for authentication via OpenSSL PEM private keys: [URL]

+1 ... due to the way our network backups work these files are currently visible to our end users which is not ideal. It would be better if these were located somewhere outside of …

This offer should already have been disabled. Are you running the installer in a VM or the like?

Wonderful! Thank you!

It would be helpful if Freefilesync indicated a forecast of the amount of space left on each drive _after_ completion of the intended operation.

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