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Hello everybody I'm using this software and works very well for backup files. Congratulations team !! Global max elapsed time, f.ex. a backup in weekend have to end on 48h max, if …

"Mirror" alone is not enough as a criterium, but "read-only" is. See discussion here: [404, Invalid URL: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3166021&group_id=234430&ati…

> However if I set it to Ignore the errorlevel is always zero Warnings that are ignored, automatically or by the user, are not seen as an error, so the return code is "success"(0).…

With the previous 3.21 yet the comparison phase was terribly slow on my work pc; two sync files appeared on the Windows desktop and the comparison process stuck. On my home pc it h…

%appdata%\FreeFileSync for local installation, <installation directory> for portable installation.

See discussion here: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3403508&group_id=234430&atid=1093083]

Seems your looking for the "update" sync variant. - Zenju

This should already be possible with the current release. However note, that Skydrive allows only certain known types of file extensions. Trying to sync others will result with err…

Thanks again! How does FreeFileSync determine whether a file has changed?

This request is covered by the time range selector.

I continue on the proposed topic "date range selections": [URL]

I don't think there are duplicate finders (or any other programs) that dereference shell links. If instead of using shell links (.lnk files) you'd use symbolic links, then you shou…

The changelog is automatically shown in the directory containing the file release, e.g.: [URL]

FFS does not have a built-in scheduler, but a sync-job can be started by Windows Task Planner, by invoking "c:\Program Files\...\FreeFileSync.exe <path of syncjob.ffs_batch>

Hi, I've been running some tests synchronising 2 folders with RealTimeSync. This works very well and i haven't had any problems so far. However, what if i want to synchronise 3 fol…

Double-click an entry and copy and paste. You can insert rows at a specific location by setting the grid cursor prior to insertion.

> If FFS has the ability to verify a file was successfully copied, why is it not made easily available instead of hidden in config file. This is exactly the point, FFS (and other t…

@nosbischs: They do convert in my tests, so I have no idea what goes wrong in your case. Maybe the config file is in an older format than v3.17? Anyway I wouldn't expect too much f…

It's possible, but before that, FFS needs to implement a file system abstraction layer. Right now it directly reads and writes files through WinAPI (at kernel level). This is a pla…

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Done: "ignore errors" can now safely be used in all circumstances, also in case of failure to access certain sub-directories as discussed above. In this case, the corresponding fil…

I've added macros: %day%, %hour%, %min%, %sec% for v3.19 > Is there any plans on making a Scheduler app for this to make thing easier than old CMD prompts? Currently not. Using the…

ad >1: What about a simple button: "delete empty folders on right side after sync'ing"? ad >2: A fixed date would be helpful to automatically produce an incremental backup (after a…

I would have to agree with Zenju. I would not want the file sync software to perform the encryption as it would only serve to slow it down. I use TC and it works just fine. I have …

The most recent version FFS has a filter on time and filesize. However filtering is applied after input directories have been traversed. So comparing only the most recent ones is n…

See discussion here: [URL]

Okay, I think I may understand the mirror. If I have deleted some folders out of the original file and the backup folder still has it in it, the file will be deleted in the mirror,…

ADS is already copied by default. With NTFS extended attributes it's more difficult: Copying them is only possible if implementing a custom stream-based copy routine. I've implemen…

Case: For someone using Google Chrome on Windows 7 I want to delete all files from the C:\users\~\Documents\Downloads folder if they are stored somewhere else in the "My Documents"…

> File SIZE (or other file characteristics, like OWNER, ATTRIBUTES, ACCESS TIME, MODIFY TIME, etc...) are not taken into consideration. That's only partially true: File size and mo…

The crux is a large number of different error situations are all reported as a single error code 5: access denied. Here the Windows C-API definitively should have been more fine-gr…

Oh, it's a secure solution too because the scheduled tasks run under an admin account and only that account has access to the share created on the member computers.

>"open with default application" is not to expect lpParameters, if to read by title Both lpParameters and lpFileBy are required 'cause the input, as defined in FFS->global settings…

Ahh, I see. I look forward to 3.17. And, even if the size increases it's well worth it. I already install both 32-bit and 64-bit versions so it can work on all my old and new compu…

FFS batch jobs can be used in combination with the operating systems scheduling mechanisms (e.g. task planner on windows) 1 and 2 are thous covered externally.

This scenario will be eventually covered via: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2880632&group_id=234430&atid=1093083]

OK, thanks!

> initialize a sync process with one click. Actually you need two, that is a double-click. Create a batch job via menu->advanced. -Zenju

Thank You... Nuno Leite

Glad to hear that. It really was a problem for us that now seems to be solved. Thanks.

Thanks, for your feedback

Item 5 will be refined in v3.15 to provide "full" transactional behavior: [URL]

Okay, no filters set. Check. What is your setting on symlink? If that subfolder is a junction and symlink is set to "ignore" it will be excluded also. BTW what's your operating sys…

Thanks for the rapid response! I will go and test the program and expand it to my colleagues.

There is a similar issue reported here [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3166021&group_id=234430&atid=1093083] I acknowledge this issue and will t…

Got it. Thanks.

1 >not safe to ignore this conflict by prefering one data source over the other I have very few errors but ignoring them all the time <Silent>true</Silent> <HandleError>ignore</Han…

One more thing: Can you please retry synchronization again until the error occurs, but this time monitor everything (only events of FreeFileSync.exe) with [URL] and send me the log…

> they all run at "idle" priority Setting idle priority won't help because this has an impact on CPU consumption only. FFS on the other hand is file I/O bound, consequently this se…

> The newer version you posted still seems to continue to strip out the extra space This should really work now. Maybe you loaded an old (invalid) config file that is already missi…