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Sorry, because of my poor English I thought your "first pair" was referring to my first example. I hadn't really thought about using two different couplers for the same directory. …

Because you write that the "recycle bin" folder was created on (in?) the destination folder, this reads like it happened on a (Synology?) NAS. If that is the case, the creation of …

> The right side has some system files not on the left side that I don't want to get deleted, but I don't them to go over to the left side either. Assuming the names of said system…

Hello, I'm getting the following message whenever I attempt to run the donation edition of Free File Sync (13.3, just redownloaded it from the email I was sent when I donated.) Ins…

The MAC address is not transferred online, but it is used to generate a unique "hardware id". This is documented in the privacy policy: [URL]

It's possible there was an OS update in the background, but who knows since everything is OTA at this point

" .ffs_tmp" files are a special case: They "belong" to FreeFileSync. If a new run finds them remnant from a previous sync, they will be unconditionally and permanently be deleted a…

Post the command you are running via the scheduled task

[Quote] On the current version of FFS, changing any options/action from the default 'update' configuration will change it to a custom config automatically. I don't know what is wro…

Speed depends so much on your hardware and settings. Are you using "File content" as a comparison method? If so, this method takes a lot longer than "file time and size". Robocopy …

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I have been using FFS for years and last year bought a macbook pro with an M2 chip. Initially my fairly basic back ups to external hard drives worked perfectly but over the last fe…

xCSxXenon... Did as you suggested, reinstalling the Dropbox client. Now all works as it should.

Thank you!

@HBoyter, you should provide more info about the 2 locations of the sync. (E.g. are they both on disk? are they on network, sharepoint, ftp, etc) If you are convinced the date/size…

Thx again for making me smart in using FFS ;-) that was a great help!

I think I found the problem. On the save as batch job screen, the "When finished:" dropdown has defaulted to: "System: Shut down". I cleared this drop down and resaved the .ffs. fi…

Hi There. I' using the latest Bodhi version. How can I install FreeFileSync on my system? How to install: FreeFileSync_13.2_Install.run On my Ubuntu PC I can easily install everyth…

always pop up online and offline activation which I don't even know how to get the code

I have tried to copy all types of files. If I use FFS, they are unreadable. If I use windows explorer or other sync tools they work fine.

[Quote] You don't, it's just an open-ended thread. Although, it would be kind of cool to have something like GitHub/Microsoft where there is a dedicated page to issues and then eac…

Yep, this has been on here before. The answer is to talk with your IT team. However, if you have local administrator access, I have an inclination that they won't be able to help y…

Thank you for these explanations. This is actually what I do in this kind of situation (manual selection of the most recent version). Coming back to my original problem, I don't un…

[Quote] That is completely unrelated to this thread. You have multiple files with the same name and in the same location in Google Drive, FFS can't figure out which one to use beca…

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OK, I read your comprehensive reply and also looked at the underlying philosophy of FreeFileSync. I then took the following action. I inspected both the source and destination fold…

> The reason given is always that it doesn't exist on the right size. This suggests you are not using the proper left-right base-locations. If you are sure your right-side files ar…

Thank you very much!!

No, you don't want to mess with the backups that Windows creates. They use extra stuff to create a sort of 'timeline' when restoring from, it doesn't just copy the files to a desti…

And thank you for the Forum Support!

Thanks Zenju. For anyone reading this later, I can confirm that l did receive the download link for donation edition, by email, (if I remember correctly) 1-2 days after the bank tr…

It was impossible to delete this file as long as the USB key was in the right-hand port. I don't know why, but when I placed the key in the USB port on the left, I was able to dele…

The absolute very first item of the FreeFileSync (FFS) Manual is: "Basic Usage: 1. Choose left and right folders." which obviously constitutes a (left-right) folder pair ... Obviou…

Outstanding, thanks very much, not sure how I missed that either.

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You are probably missing the DISPLAY environment variable. See my [URL].

Instead of using the "Time stamp (Folder)" option in Versioning, try using "Time stamp (File)" or for your case (keeping just a single previous version) "Replace". When using the "…

[Quote] I can't find the solution. Everybody says different things.

Thanks so much, not sure how I missed that.

ok, got it, thanks. I'll do a manual clean up this time but your explanation is extremely helpful for some of my other work.

If you are browsing for a location in FFS, it still uses your native file explorer. Make sure you have enabled viewing hidden/system files/folders in your OS

Theoretically, files can have an identical checksum and still differ in content. That is however very, very unlikely, and, as explained in said threads, not the reason why FFS does…

Hi, I wanna sync 1 local drive to my nas back in the day, I "fried" the src "drive" doing so... like the src dive was unusable after a huge bulk sync is there a way to sync then st…

The problem seems to be that you created an overlap between your two folder pairs. Your first right location is D:\ , your second one D:\Photos . But D:\Photos is obviously part of…

I was hoping that FFS portable on external drive J would be entirely independant of standard FFS installed on C.

asking for the same wish: for mac: one button in the GUI to reset all the paths, or a simple method to reset one by one. many thanks!

[Quote] When you do that, are you asked to provide username/password to the NAS, or does it "just work"? Does a (Windows) Scheduled Task (already) contain the username/password, or…

??? "QUOT" command? Quota? What in the world are they talking about? There is no "QUOT" command issued by FreeFileSync. This has nothing to do with any "quota". The server issue is…

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[Quote] Basically, the right-side file has changed since the last sync and the left-side file hasn't. Even though the left may be "newer", it isn't as recently updated as the right…