FreeFileSync Forum

I agree about differential compression. I used FFS over an ADSL connection and what takes hours might only take minutes sometimes if Microsoft's RDC was used. If both ends support …

Could be possible to have the RunWithBackgroundPriority option on the GUI? Would be fine to be able to change easier.

I would welcome a feature to select a file or a folder and immediately copy to the file to the other side. Context menu could have an "Immediate copy" item for a selected file or d…

Auto update is a good idea. I like how HeidiSQL mysql client software implemented update feature. I would welcome something similar...

Hello, Is there any way to clear the drag and drop lists? Cheers, Ton Lindemann

Hello, I love free File File Sync. The only feature request I can think of is the ability to change the order of the sync list. I have about 10 folders syncing between two systems.…

I'm not sure if I'm thinking the same thing but I have two computers I sync - e.g. \\my-pc1\f\folder name and \\my-pc2\f\folder \\my-pc1\f\folder2\.... it would be great when addin…

In addition to checking the date/time and size of a file, would it be possible to also consider the checksum of a file (e.g. MD5 hash)? This would flag if a file's contents has cha…

I've always thought native OS task scheduling on all systems have generally sucked donkey balls from their incept; they never cater for all possible circustances and add the incred…

Actually, I like the way it is now. Except for the inconsistency that skipped items will not be counted by default, but will be counted when set manually to be skipped. The reason …

I'm sorry about my silly question. Is FreeFileSync use CIFS as it's protocol to transfer file between network drive and windows shared folder? or it use some other protocol to tran…

Maybe you have a file filter set?

> manufacturers of USB-Sticks, HDs etc. use M, G etc. since years correctly as decimal units Yeah, because it makes their devices look bigger :D

I think it would be usefull to be able to have an option to specify an alternate location in case the disk is full or smaller. Doing so, if the disk being in sync is full (or small…

Thanks for the feedback! This will be fixed in FFS 6.7, release tomorrow!

Okay. Well, if I was talented enough to compile it, I would try, but thank you anyway.

AS the Topic says, i want to be able to make the software ask me what to do, so i can see what files are related and such. This is the only feature i can see that's missing. Thanks

Image shows for me. From the FFS menus... Help -> Check for new version -> Check automatically once a week

First of all, thanks to the author(s) for such highly useful software. It makes things so much easier. This is not a complaint. It's simply an idea. It may be completely wrong and …

Hi, I'm trying to use FFS to copy Windows Roamin Profile folder. The FFS is running in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and the FFS still showing the same error message. 1. Global s…

I run FFS portable from the stick. Requirements are different every time, some are backups, some are syncs (mostly one way). What I have to change frequently is the middle icon (="…

Who, thats fantastic. Its seems that's everything ok now.

Hi! I just run into your software. Interesting. In my case I am struggling with similar file/folder structures, and I want to compare them. My intent is to delete identical files f…

[Quote] I decided to solve this by scheduling a batch file, implementing Pierry's second suggestion. First run a "TwoWay" sync (to catch deletes/renames etc). If that fails with a …

This has been brought up for uses like web site updates (SVN/Git versioning), but my request is a little different. I have remote sites with slow enough internet or bandwidth limit…

Hi, I want to know if there is a configuration to compare a directory directly against another, rather than comparing both against each other? Scenario - I want to 'compare' if my …

Hi FreeFileSync Developers Thanks for the great software. Feature Request Could FFS be made to favour the VSS method of copying for files larger than a certain size? or perhaps for…

I solved, back to a previous restore point to winxp, uninstalling everything, cleaning the registry, re-installing freefilesyncr 6.4 and recreating the rules ... the update to 6.5 …

Oh, I restarted FreeFileSync, and now it does not happen anymore!

it's OK now. all i did was point it back to the new 6.5 directory during the open file selection by chosing a file there and it seemed to save this now as the default location. I h…

Is it possible to sync between a pc and laptop using a bridged usb cable to improve transfer speeds? If so how do I force it use the cable route rather than over the existing wirel…

If sync'ing / copying over a network, the response time can be very slow for a device to respond More specifically, if the device isn't present on the network, 10+ seconds are wast…

Could you add a possibility by Batch/General configuration to log "Info: No files to synchronize!" to be generated for each Pair in FolderPairs? It would be great for us to see in …

How does one remove paths/directories from the drop down list of previously used/selected directories? I have paths to devices that I no longer have in the drop down lists and woul…

This would provide what Hermann Schinagl calls [URL], right? That would be a wonderful thing! P.S.: It would be nice if the documentation explained what happens with existing hard …

I guess the simplest solution is to: 1. compare both sides and hide all files/folders that exist on the master side only 2. Select the list of top level directories from the overvi…

Please ignore this post. I found how to make the change. Sorry. From: Pete Goss [mailto:[Email]] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:46 PM To: '[Email]' Subject: How do I re-set the L…

My system just crashed and after chkdsc, I'm up and running again with some glitches. One of which is that freefilesync does not display English as the default language, despite re…

[Quote] I have the same need, to periodically replicate from a read-only network source. I disabled the locks in GlobalSettings.xml, and now get a different error (Z: is the read-o…

I discovered another situation that causes the error code 22 (at least in Ubuntu, I don't know how it works in Windows). When I named files with a colon (:), FFS couldn't make the …

[Quote] i found the problem: Global Settings - Copy filesystem permissions: if set, i receive "Windows Error Code 1300" if not set, every thing works fine, just like expected. i am…

Done. Support for CR2 raw images has been added for the next FreeFileSync release: [404, Invalid URL: http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/FreeFileSync_6.5_beta_Windows_Setup.exe]

I would like to have a third comparison option where it would compare date/size first and, if date and size were equal, it would compare the content. In my case and, I believe, for…

I'm not sure what this option is intended to do. It's not documented in the help file here on windows. It says it requires and creates a database when enabled and that it is not su…

Sure you can recover your stuff with any file manager, PE CD etc. With "experiment" I didnt refer to real data, of course. Create a folder with dummy files, the change them and syn…

THANKS. Works like a charm now. Also a really good idea to combine the 3 dialogs - allows a quick step-through to double-check at one glance.

It would be cool if more variables in the global options could be controlled by environment variables. For instance, I'm setting up backup scripts which back up to two different lo…

Hi, I have the following XML config file for RealTimeSync that monitors D:\Luca and R:\Luca but I wouldn't like to monitor all the subfolders. Can I add some "exclude" rules as I c…

[Quote] My system is Linux, so can not see what you are referring to

It would be nice if you could preview the files that will be filtered so you can check your filters. On a large disk it takes a lot of scrolling to see what files will be excluded …