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Sehr geehrter Herr Zenju! Thanks a lot for FreeFileSync 13.5! It is working well, no Error-Massage and make a good job. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Siegfried

Thank you Plerry

Noted and Thanks!

Not a good idea. Way more complicated, if not impossible, and likely more confusing down the road.

I have updated dozens of versions and have not lost any settings

Ah the classic 'I've been staring at pixels too long to be competent" error Been there oh so many times

Normally port 21 is reserved for unencrypted connections via traditional FTP. Perhaps you can ask the admin if there is a separate SFTP encrypted port number such as 22 for example…

On a Mac, the Finder retains create and mod dates when a folder is renamed or moved - so this is the expected behaviour that I would hope FreeFileSync could learn how to emulate wi…

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After running a comparison, try right-clicking one of the files and excluding from the context menu. This can provide some insight on the correct syntax as that is likely the issue…

Use Time Machine to back up your OS, it is simply the best option in existence. FFS is not a system backup/restore tool and shouldn't be relied upon for such use

Of course, the permissions are there to prevent other users from accessing your data. You can either run FFS from each account for backups or run FFS using sudo from a terminal.

I have searched the forum, and there are similar issues reported, but I can't find this specific issue. My setup: Synology NAS on my LAN. Directories are mapped in Windows 10. I am…

Large sized files? In the TB sized large? Recall something about copying first (to a temporary file), then removing the original target & replacing with the copied temp file. So in…

Tried all that. Thanx

> ... as this program allows multiple sets of information to be mirrored in one easier operation The feature of using multiple left-right pairs is already present in the standard (…

I did what I suggested above and syncronised the warning variant and it has removed the warning exclamation mark, so all good. It took all but 2 minutes Thanks again for the sugges…

Can't find any concrete info on what that directory is used for, so it probably has no need to be backed up. I would exclude it. It's definitely a system file location, and FFS isn…

Perfect answer...just what I needed. And such a quick response. Many thanks. --RK

Aren't we lazy.

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Hm. I seem to remember a maximum of 3 installs. Maybe that changed?

[Quote] Same here. There seems to be a two week timeout before a device can be removed. Which would be reasonable if the device was identified correctly. Instead of reducing the ti…

I have the same problem. I understand there could be a problem with reporting changes to system from a remote location, but is there any way to fix this or apply some workaround? I…

You don't want to go down the rabbit hole of File Explorer context menus. The way items are added and the order in which they appear is completely FUBAR. I just wanted to group som…

Yes, use the star version since a '*' is a wildcard that matches anything

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Yes, the executable itself was not locked, but it was the one locking the file. It's an Nvidia feature to do stuff, but it requires saving data into a temp file, which is what you …

> I still don't get it, because I need this particular folder to be treated differently then the rest of the sync. So I need to specify the folder in the rules. As per my previous …

I have setup a local NAS with a hard drive attached to my router in one location and the same setup at a different location (different ISP and IPs). I have established a VPN betwee…

1) Basically the same as far as I can tell. Possibly an older layout may have provided a more prominent use case for the checkboxes 2) Can't you just run the sync? Then the modific…

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Hi Zenju, Sure , I will update the application. Also, would be there any data loss that can happen if we delete the Recycle Bin folder? is it a folder that will be created by FreeF…

[Quote] Then it would appear that is the case. Explain your sync settings & what you are doing.

FFS shouldn't be leaving any temporary recycle bin folders, FFS deletes to the "Recycle Bin" that Windows uses, if set to do so. Don't check the actual recycle bin folders on the d…

Don't extract to the Program files folder, that it not how you install programs onto a computer. You extract/unzip the compressed folder you download, then run the exe inside the e…

Don't install anything to do this, it's very easy to Google how to set up a network share on both macOS and Windows. Share the folders that you want other computers to be able to a…

You could write a .bat script that runs the syncs via command line, one after another. Or use post-sync commands in one config to call another to run

As you can see when comparing the [URL] silent installation is only a feature of the business edition. So, the error notification is correct.

[Quote] You sort of can. You could save each left-right folder pair as an individual *.ffs_gui or *ffs_batch sync configuration. By selecting multiple of those saved sync configura…