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If the file size is different, then the comparison is correct in that the files must be different. Generally this sounds like a hardware problem with the target device.

When I complained, I'd thought that the exclusions were gone for good until I re-scanned. But now that I know the rather obscure method of alternately hiding and restoring the excl…

The problem: folders can be synced by another application (say e.g. Total Commander, or just by windows explorer doing the same at two locations). When in a subsequent FFS sync att…

Hello Zenju FFS is the best sync tool around IMHO. Thank you for this software. It has a GPL license, it is open source but it is not in debian repositories. I think this is a pity…

Hello, a nice feature would be the function to copy files on Windows Systems using the backup mode (backup operator group). This will avoid the need of setting filesystem rights in…

Hi, it would be great if the following two options for archive attribute handling could be added: - clear archive attribute on source - set archive attribute on Destination Thanks …

* also matches \, which is required to make *.ext filter phrases work. But to solve your problem you can [URL] in addition to your include filter.

Thank you!!!

I was having a look at the FFS source code and was wondering where the code that hashes the SFTP password (before it is stored in the FFS batch/sync files) is exactly? We are calli…

Thanks for explaining Zenju. I will minimize the windows to the dock instead, it seems to keep the same speed. :) Thank you

The network credentials handling definitively should get some overhaul: [URL]

Is it possible to sync files among folders while converting them to a different format? My music collection is in FLAC, but some apps won't recognize it and want mp3 files instead.…

Most of the files of my backup do not change between two backups, but if I choose to compare files by content, all files, even those not modified since years, are compared by conte…

This option is already available under synchronization settings ("Handle errors").

When synchronizing large disks (e.g. with more than 1 000 000 files) the synchronization process may take 15 minutes and more. The number of Elements found is shown with the time p…

This may or may not be a contributing factor to the longstanding bug preventing FreeFileSync from being launched from other processes that remain running: [URL]

Hello folks, have a wonderful day to all of you.. I have problem regarding in syncing of game folders in 55 PC, can someone know the fix of directory lock? Can I sync a multiple ba…

I've added a check to only copy extended attributes if the target volume natively supports it instead of creating these AppleDouble files. Here's the new version, let me know if th…

Since version 7.9 you can do a [URL] directly from GUI without having to change global settings.

No idea?!

Same here. Please make this happened !! Especially when I am forging two similar folders on the same drive into one directory. Copy as unchangeable default is definitely not conven…

Please make this happened !! Especially when I am forging two similar folders on the same drive into one directory. Copy as unchangeable default is definitely not convenient to som…

Zenju... Thank you. I had already tested "Run With Background Priority", but it is very, very slow ... I will have patience lol! About compression, you would have something lighter…

Hi, at first: Thank you for this great piece of software, which I use since years. Some days ago I bought a second 4 TB external harddisk. I synced the content of the first harddis…

Hello Zenju, i suggest to warn/ask the user if he do some critical actions in the gui. Suggestion1: Warn/ask the user : do really want to change the sync direction? yes / no. Sugge…

Thank you very much!

Your terminology is confusing: > ... if there's a way to avoid a third folder and just have "c:\source" and "d:\revisions" where files overwritten or deleted in "c:\source" will be…

For us, the false postives almost killed installation of this software in its tracks... not good. Yes, I can certainly understand Zenju need for funding. Who doesn't need that? On …

Feature Enhancement: "Exclude via filter:" with a capture subfolder option eg \folder1\* Version: FreeFileSync 7.8 Windows Platform This would be an additional filter style(s) when…

Upon defining a new sync, but particularly also after updating the software I make it a habit of first running a comparision and then evaluate if the comparison results match my ex…

Wow, you're amazing, Zenju! Great work! Did a quick install and tested some saved jobs with the new file-size-only-option. Seems to work VERY well! This really induces to make a do…

no one can help me? thanks.

$25 donation opportunity: I searched all the subject lines in the open discussion forum for "dup" and did not find any discussion regarding deduplication. Granted, I believe one ca…

hello?

Hello, just want to notice that the 7.7 version binary works just on ubuntu 15.04 (of course) but we need the 7.7 version working on ubuntu 14.04 lts. will be released one day? or …

Thanks for all and for the very good software. I will ask you if it's possible implement in the new version the possibility to use a Rsync protocolo. My regards Pietro

Use MultiPAR so you can recover bad data. That said, as a separate matter, block level copying in FFS would be great.

+1, it would be a very interesting feature... for backing up purposes even more than syncing...

Hi all, I'm currently in a situation where comparsion by filesize only would be required. I would need to disable comparsion by timestamp. Probably a input for further developement…

Sorry, I just found out that "copy locked files" was not activated in the settings! Now it seems to work.

Hi, Sometimes you want to copy from a source to a destination and then re-structure the destination (pictures, in my case). This means that you want an incremental copying of files…

[Quote] It's working fine now. Thank you!

Has anyone found a solution to disable automatic updates for all users of a machine using globalsettings.xml (unattended setup)? I tried to copy the file to the user's "%appdata%\F…

Hi there. FreeFileSync is a great program. I'm so thankfull! I have been successfully using it to do the first copy of the NTFS data files. The problem is: How to detect the files …

This is a Norton-AV false positive: Norton's heuristics are very blunt: If the file is not well-known (= distribution + age) => flag as suspicious.

I second this. The application is fantastic. But when it comes to large file backups that I'm versioning, it would really be nice to limit the number of versions I need.

Hi, I would like to sync mirror a remote folder but I would like to know if it's possible to create a DB for destination files in order to not scan destination every time ? Thank y…

External apps in the context menu only work when hardwired if the folder locations left and right are passed to FFS via command line. Paths like ..\WinMerge\WinMergePortable.exe "%…

Hello! First of all, thank you for this great app. The only wanted thing is smth like bandwidth limiter (like in Vice Versa pro for ex.). Found a small bug in windows 2012. The log…

[Quote] > Sorting in the "Overview" area can be made by folder pairs collumn, so that the folder pairs in the task can be in same order as the corresponding lines in the "Overview"…