FreeFileSync Forum

@dwig I'm using SVN for development work, so I know the concept. The files I'm trying to "backup" are a too many & too big to check in on every upgrade step. (I'm trying to make th…

> later versions become more 'sophisticated' to cater for more features, like nero, acronis true image, cintanotes, etc. These are all commercial applications which *have to* imple…

[Quote] Point taken. Though I must say, the implications of case sensitivity vs. insensitivity are just mind boggling in a multi-platform environment. Gives me a headache. Simply a…

Folder last modification time is not retained (nor considered) by FFS. See also: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/feature-requests/318/]

[Quote] Are you using Computer Shutdown scripts? They are run as Local System, and they have the full rights that are associated with being able to run as Local System REF [URL] Do…

No, this needs to be done via Windows Explorer.

If you are talking about "Rwil-WETAG-SAP Schulung.doc", this is not a symbolic link, so the symlink settings do not have any effect. It is however a sparse reparse point, that is n…

FFS never relies on the configuration files to remain the same during execution. Loading of the files basically is as you describe, for both RTS and FFS batch, the config file is r…

> Is the simple solution here to turn on "follow" for symbolic links? We have it off now for some reason, but this might be the simple fix. The solution is to "exclude" symlinks an…

Whoa. Just realised that I have been on an older version. I can see that there is now a lot of guidance in the help file so I will go and study that. Thanks again.

One thing to clarify: the directory we monitor on the share is one that nobody uses, it's basically a flag directory (%synctarget%\online), so that RealTimeSync will only become ac…

Are you using the most recent version of FreeFileSync? The error message should say which application is locking the file (if possible)

There's a way to do this with a single configuration: Use two folder pairs, but specify the same source and target folder names. Then exclude this file from the first folder pair, …

After a system rebuild and partial upgrade was hoping to be able to run FreeFileSync from linux rather than the vmware windows session which is what I was previously doing. However…

When selecting binary comparison, the tool automatically switches the middle grid to "category view", because it assumes you only want to compare both sides without a sync. Just sw…

It's not clear what you mean with "exclude"; you need to scan each file once in order get its name. Only then you know whether it should be processed or not. This is what FFS does,…

Thank You! I can't afford much right now, but hopefully I can come back and give more again in the not-too-distant future.

Thanks! I looked but couldn't tell that it was there. Thanks!

Yes, it's basically the same. But the versioning naming convention changed with v5.7, see: [URL]

So far so good, that is looking much better! Now I need to have a play with the file versioning stuff for the home backup...

Some things on Linux an only be learned the "hard" way ;)

Thanks for immediate reply, and for yr great suggestion that will certainly solve my problem. Have a good day

In fact it doesn't really matter if you install "local" or portably, in both cases the same files will be copied, but "local" will create "uninstall.exe" in addition. On startup FF…

I have the same issue. It leaves the FFS directories on one of the sides, then gives the exact message you describe. I set it to iignore errors: 1. Windows 2007 x64 2. Run as Admin…

Duplicate of: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1093081&aid=3559311&group_id=234430]

I'm thinking FFS would be a nice tool to do *like* a workstation backup of a machine prior to reformatting. Unlike Window's File/Settings transfer though, I want to sync all local …

Thanks for the reply, I did some testing to see this all in action. I used Process Explorer to look at the environment var you set in RealTimeSync and yes, it's there. I made a sin…

Very great. Thank you for wonderful software :)

If I had OSX to run it in a VM, I could see to assemble a Mac version *wink*

I'll post to this thread what I posted on [URL]. I too prefer to have versions of the same file in the same folder instead of spread across different time-stamped folders. I create…

You may sync an arbitrary number of folders via automatic mode, "n-way" syncs are fully supported. Just make sure this is the model you want: any change in any of the folder will b…

The log file is opened before starting sync in order to get an early error in case of problems with the log being the only communication channel. But the log content is assembled a…

Excellent, that is just what I am looking for - we may try running with the CopyLockedFiles turned off only because we have people that are running Access databases or VM images fr…

This sounds pretty much like the "update" sync variant.

> Warning: Recycle Bin is not available for the following paths! Files will be deleted permanently instead: This warning comes up when at least one file is scheduled for update or …

It's not exposed on GUI but you can enable "VerifyCopiedFiles" in GlobalSettings.xml

Oops, that's a pity :( Would it be possible to make the "NO BUFFERING" flag an optional (non default) setting? Perhaps hidden in the registry (in order to not clutter the interface…

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Seems to be caused by multithreading bugs in GTK: [URL]

Probably not. Error codes are now positive while they were negative in earlier versions. Since batch "errorlevel" models less-equal, there bat file may need to be adapted. The new …