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Of course, FFS always only copies "the ones that do need copying" Telling it what it needs to compare and copy is what you do, as the user. If FFS threw that error, somewhere it ca…

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Easier to just use the appropriate user data folders (Documents, Pictures, etc.) and then back those up. There's no way to identify user generated data to do this

Never tried this specific use-case, but what you describe makes perfect sense. Just to make sure, give it a try. Run an Update sync, after it finishes, delete a specific file from …

How have you determined this? Can you post a screenshot that shows your source with files and the corresponding directory on the backup that lacks those files?

By using "Save", the (modified) current sync configuration is saved in its present location. By using "Save as", you can save the sync configuration under any self selected name in…

Hi, I'm new to this product and was hoping to sync batch music files as a backup to my music library. I've tried a few different things that didn't work. My music library is curren…

Hi! I am running CachyOS and using your fantastic program to sync across a PC and two different TNS servers. Running 10Gb network so would like to take advantage of parallel operat…

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ohh, thanks

[Quote] Jesus, is that from the early 2000s? I've used Ant Renamer for a bit now, and I know there are others even better and more beautiful than that still

Oh, then I'm at a loss Thanks for the help

Perfection! It worked (of course! Well played!) I appreciate what you do ;)

fail when connection ftp server CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_PASV_REPLY: Illegal port number in EPSV reply 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||50097) [curl_easy_perform]

Sorry I spoke too soon. found it. Thanks!

I tried 13.9, since that was the newest version installer I had downloaded, and it worked fine. I installed 14.5 and got the same errors and failure. I hadn't upgraded in a while. …

[Quote] Yes, the F:/ drive is connected, accessible to the machine, and visible in File Explorer. FFS is otherwise making the backups to it correctly, it's just recycling the past …

I rebooted the NAS several time trying to find out what's going on (or, rather, not going on). And I don't think it is a general NAS issue as it's only a few directories that are s…

Tried canceling what? Ignoring errors where and from what? Take the command you entered in the scheduled task and try running it in a CMD window, does it work? You might be better …

Thanks for your idea...I am 100% sure the file being sent to the recycle bin is/was a live file and not an old version. It was part of a controlled test where I (a) created a file …

^^ Which likely means Z: is a network location, and this is also likely a permissions issue

Doesn't sound like you are using FFS for syncing, rather your goal is to merge two locations. Just use the built-in copy-paste and when it asks what to do with files that have matc…

The FFS database files are created by, and used by FFS. When running Two-way syncs that is a must; when running other types of sync (Mirror, Update, Custom) it is a selectable opti…

Thanks for the help! Actually, with the help of duc I found the problem; one has had occurred for me rarely, though already earlier during my last 30 years on *nix. There is a /foo…

It's also not crazy that a NAS touches files for some reason. Some offer scanning for malware, some have indexing, some can change metadata for organizing/sorting, etc. As far as l…

For comparing, yes, but it's not like the OS is traversing the entire actual file system for do this. Any modern file system is using a "table-of-contents" to provide file informat…

My only wish for FFS: an option to preserve the correct timestamps of subdirectories.

[Quote] My only wish for FFS: an option to preserve the correct timestamps of subdirectories.

As long as the FFS instance in which you ran a sync is still open, if you want to run the "same" sync, you need to first run a new Compare. You can not just click Synchronize again…

Seems to be resolved now, I guess the once in a while bugfix updates of TrueNAS CE helped?

Thanks for the update!

Why not just have RTS run all the time instead of when opening a project? If for reason you have to do this, you need to request a feature for PyCharm that allows running acommand/…

Found it, thanks!!!

Solution! Thanks a 1,000,000 Zenju, appreciate the help!

[Quote] This isn't reliable as not every device has a S/N. Your setup really shouldn't use duplicate hostnames, sounds like a DNS/networking nightmare, but to each their own I gues…

So it clears it after each sync? Okay, that's fine. Not to beat a dead horse but I will concur with the numerous posts regarding filtering on date. Thank you in advance for enhanci…

[Quote] I was actually hoping that I could configure it for each task, but what Zenju posted will just have to work. I have 4 tasks, but there is only one task that I only want to …

Any new workarounds? I've had this very problem since moving from Windows 10 to Linux Mint 22. I've seen a suggestion to connect over a network instead of USB, but it requires sett…

I'm currently attempting to move 31,000 + photos that were downloaded from icloud to my NucBox over to my Ugreen NAS. It's been about 5 hours now and only about 7GB have moved over…

Hi again, unfortunately that bug exists even until today. Is there any workaround to fix it? Thanks in preview. theDude

[Quote] Error cannot rename file.

FFS is not a backup utility and doesn't directly handle compression/encryption

Here are some sample errors: <td valign="top">11:17:04</td> <td valign="top"><img src="[URL]" width="16" height="16" alt="Error:"></td> <td>Cannot write file &quot;/Volumes/ToyotaB…

After posting, I realized that a few other apps had a similar problem (windows explorer to name one), so went searching deeper. Seems in my recent trial of using light mode, I set …

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Use the native GDrive integration

Please tell us what file system are the source and the destination. In Windows the default behavior is case-insensitive, but, from Windows 10 1803 up, you can use fsutil to enable …

Two corrections: 1. deletion is instant, but isn't allowed for newly installed devices 2. Virtual Machines do not add to the device count