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That's unfortunate, but thanks for your response, Zenju. From it, I gather you're affected financially but I'm sure you're aware that a lot of people use FFS without contributing e…

Hi, I'm not a Mac guy, only i did some quick research. As in Linux, the Mac OS directories are protected from the users. So, /Library & /Users are likely not writable for users. Yo…

> So it looks like a bug. A bug is something unintentional. As Zenju wrote, this is by design.

FreeFileSync macOS v12.4 I have exactly the same issues that never happened before. I sync via SFTP from a Mac on macOS Ventura 13.4 to an external HDD connected to a NAS on LAN. D…

[Quote] No, it was empty

This seems to be a general macOS bug. Libreoffice is affected, too: [URL] [URL]

> I wish windows had an option to easily copy files including all metadata as they are. This suggests FFS preserves metadata when copying, while Windows would not. As far as I am a…

[Quote] Yes, this is another simple solution.

[Quote] 12.5

[Quote] Thanks for your help, RTS works fine today after I reboot my macbook.

How do I get the donated version? I still haven't received the link for it.

> what is the next best thing to use (than "Detect Moved Files") "Detect Moved Files" is a feature that allows to to rename and/or move a file or folder (as long as within the scop…

[Quote] Thanks! Editing the file above manually from autoclose = false to true did fix it for me.

I was also having the same issue. A lot of the info in the post is for Windows 7. Most of us are up to Win10 or 11 now. I tried a few things like disabling Indexing for the drive, …

Fixed in the next version: [URL]

Fixed in the next version: [URL]

Fixed in the next version: [URL]

Yes, it works that way too, presuming you are wanting a one-way sync. If you need, for certain to do a two-way sync, I can show you an example of rclone. Raidrive can also map to G…

I have just tried copying some files between two internal drives on the computer using 12.4. FFS works with no problem. AQ

I don't know if it is a problem with the Azure. I started a new mirroring of files from a Windows server to a server running on Azure and everything ran fine. At this time, there w…

I wrote: > ... but even don't need to run FreeFileSync (FFS) on two computers. But running it on two machines is also fine. Obviously machine A needs to run the A <=> C sync, but t…

Thank you, it worked! With a bit of thinking I could have found out myself! Greetings

Windows 10 updated to FreeFileSync 12.3 [2023-05-17] contributor and started an update on Users directory it included "All Users" which is symbolic link to C\ProgramData. I don't k…

Maybe you have more than 1 instance of the app opened? Bizarrely, FreeFileSync default on allowing multiple instances. The time listed will be the one on the last instance you clos…

The idle time is irrelevant to that issue. The idle time is simply the amount of time that needs to pass since the last change before the command is triggered. An inaccessible loca…

Thank you both for your replies, I misunderstood the usage of dirpair.

> if I mess up / loose the originals I will automatically mess up / lose the backup If you "mess up" (make unintended changes) the above is true for a Mirror sync, an Update sync a…

I've been having this issue for a while now and I fixed it just today. It turned out to be a corrupted NTFS partition error, fixable by booting into Windows and running disk checki…

[Quote] Apparently because I have selected this option Tools > Options > Copy locked files (requires administrator rights) which I do need for my C:\MY PORTABLES\Mp3tag\Mp3tagError…

[Quote] [Quote] Thank you both. I thought about what would work for me. I use technology to make up for my unfocused brain :-) I am concerned that if my backup depended on me remem…

Just hoping to bump this, surprised I haven't heard any ideas from anyone...

I don't know about such things, but might it be a cache issue? Up until the cache runs out, things run (appear to run) speedily. And once the cache is exhausted, things then run at…

That error means you have some data that is included in multiple folder pairs, as stated. Not surprising considering your setup. For example: Mirroring A to C B to C Is going to th…

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"My personal computer has the toggle to completely disable it, so it seems Microsoft is in limbo right now" This means that your personal computer is running the old method of the …

Whatever the reason I feel it shouldn't be rocket science for a company like Samsung to fix or explain to customers why this situation prevails. I've been very pleased with MPE app…

OK, I too just tried EVERY virtual drive option. Only 2 of them work with FFS. 1. Webdav (Windows Explorer) 2. Webdav HTTP + Rclone Those appear to be your only options. Winfsp and…

Well, I've made some progress. I believe the culprit was the web browser, or rather one of the add-ons. Although I am not fully confident this was the only reason. After disabling …

Bonjour therube, This is all the more curious as I don't have a paragon application on my PC. If I type "paragon" in the search bar, it finds Thunderbird files. I don't see the con…

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I posted my question here first before trying anything, for fear of messing up my files or whatever. Then I got impatient while waiting for an answe…

[Quote] Not qualified to answer data integrity on exfat vs ntfs. Personally, my external 4 TB drives are exfat, not ntfs.

Guess what: It's (of course) my fault. eanwhile i made it work. I tried to write the backup in an folder, which already existed from my old sync application.. By defining a new (em…

> ... is there a way to skip files that are being stubborn, ... If the "stubborn" files are consistently the same files, you could add those files to the [URL]. But obviously those…

Thank you for "3 FreeFileSync" very good software. Feature request: Display file size in kb or Auto (kb, mb, gb)

Finaly after 3 times de-installation and re-installation rounds it has got fixed. Thx

Thx for your help. Decided to work with excluding specific folders, as I also had to exclude certain types of files.

Sorry, you are right. It turns out I had EFS enabled too but given that I don't have anymore the decryption key (.pfx file) I cannot retrieve the files. Thank you for answering, i …

Sorry, but I see only for Windows example. If you know write me the text for MAC directly please. Thanks

Usually you can just use your arrow keys to highlight one and then push "DEL"

> I want to know how many device can use ? You can install FreeFileSync (FFS) on as many devices as you like (provided there is an installer for the OS of the device, or you are ab…