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Apologies for the tardiness in replying - things have been manic lately! In answer to number 4 - my script parses the log file for errors and emails me (via BLAT) with a hyperlink …

I can't move a topic, but you may open a repost (or just keep it here, I don't mind).

As I understand, if we access to archives read-only, we always 'do nothing' to it. If you are talking about archive modification, then you could apply all modifications to duplicat…

ok, manually work fine, but if i set "on logout" don't start the task, instead if i set the task under "gpedit.msc" the task start at the log out, but if the sync are of more gb, a…

Found it. Filter to Exclude *\

I can't find any further info on it

FFS cannot know whether a deletion is intentional or not, so it is always propagated. Still, restoring a file is not a problem if you set deletion handling to "recycle bin" or "ver…

I can reproduce the problem but only on a specific set of directories/files. I've opened a new tracker as suggested (thanks) - let me know if I can provide any additional informati…

@Zenju thanks for clarification i like your program really and i will use it

That works! Thank you for following up.

In setup 3, there's no need for any delays at all. In setup 2, I could start these with a MUCH shorter delay: the only purpose behind it is to ensure that the FFS instances running…

To get smallest files to sync first, see my discussion post [URL]. FFS already does a very smart job in how it orders its processing, to avoid using any more file space than is nec…

The ID 3466418 lead to changes in v5.0 which are the source of this incompatibility.

> 1) Allow me to turn off the "name" column on the right hand side. There's one problem with allowing the user to hide the "name" colum. A file may exist on one side only. In this …

I absolutely agree. I also have many saved ffs_gui and fff_batch files which need I need to open and resave one-by-one so that they are compatible with each new version. Sometimes …

Using NTFS security permissions is the right way to fulfill your requirement. All you need to do is to first transfer ownership and restrict write access to some distinct admin use…

In batch mode a log file directory can be specified where the file will be saved (menu->advanced->batch job). In GUI mode this has to be done manually via copy + paste, e.g. CTRL +…

0x8004230f is VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR for which MS writes "The provider returned an unexpected error code." This doesn't give much of a clue, maybe resetting VSS helps (FFS…

The installer needs admin rights, maybe this is the problem. If nothing else helps, try to add the .exe to some whitelist of MS Sec. Essentials. But I would expect a more userfrien…

FFS creates these temporary folders when deletion handling is set to "recycler" and moves them to Windows recycler after sync. Chosing another deletion strategy is the solution the…

same should be done with batch files...

Correct, FFS uses Windows' message box font, which (for default settings) changed from MS Shell Dlg 2, 8 pt to Segoe UI, 9 pt since Windows Vista.

You can dynamically merge multiple ffs_gui and/or ffs_batch files into FFS an run them as a single merged sync. Is there anything else missing?

Z, Sorry for my confusion but I took versioning literally and thanks for the clarification. I guess that would be a feature request then to do both, one for the deletion directory …

There has been only one change in database format in v4.3. So you can use two versions of FFS v3.6 and v4.5. If one version reports a warning "incompatible database format", then u…

Currently one has to click left-mouse button three times in order to overwrite a configuration, which is insane. Having two buttons "save" and "save as..." would be the solution sa…

Thanks for clearing the mist away... :-) Max

It's already in (v4.5).

I'm moving to FFS after years of Microsoft's SyncToy and a two-weeks test of Allway Sync... This FFS is amazingly fast and I hope it will handle my "special" sync not correctly han…

This feature has been implemented into the next version. A beta version for testing can be found here: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3429197&g…

Should have read this sooner. Edited GlobalSettings.xml instead. Now I know better. Wonderful program.

Thank you very much Zenju. Now with v4.4 the error reports are gone and everything works fine.

Picture will be back up in a while. I rebuilt my server with different volume configuration to take some encryption load out of the web server.

OK, a quick test (creating a copy of the access database and running synch in USB 2.0 port, then copy database again and run in USB 3.0 port: network to USB (2.0) Info: Creating fi…

if I had an "include" option, similar the "exclude" option, but the file is included everytime, my problem with (small) truecrypt files would be solved

> it will not delete the files at the left side, right? No, the result of synchronization is always that both sides are equal for a particular row. The file size filter will exclud…

Good idea, I've changed the text on sourceforge. Let's hope other websites will adapt at some time.

========================= PLEASE ADD FEATURE - "ignore if EXACTLY ONE HOUR difference." ========================== TODAY again daylight savings happened in europe ... PLEASE ADD FE…

Good news: I have found and fixed the problem with "VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS". As it turns out there was indeed some "cleanup code" missing on my part. However I won't take t…

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]