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[Quote] I wonder if it might not be an actual disk issue? CHKDSK. Media players are generally resilient, & may just skip over (glitch over) "bad spots" in a corrupted file. If you …

The 'new' button is grayed out when you are already on a blank template

Okay Zenju I'll assume the files were okay to delete. However, I won't go so far as to delete all files in C:\ except for swapfile.sys, and pagefile.sys. as I arrange things so tha…

It should just be opening a browser window. Have you tried restarting the computer?

Since FFS is deleting and uploading the new copy, you can't keep Google Drive revision history

And select "mirror". You probably don't want "two way".

I guess it makes sense to preserve Windows' default handling: Compress copied file only if target folder is marked as NTFS compressed Changed for FreeFileSync 11.29: [URL]

Got BSOD with latest FFS 11.28 Hope callstack helps to cover issue. [Code]

Hello, I have some issues for reading .DUMP file of RealTimeSync_XP. When I want to search why my RTS crash and create the dump, I have issue with WinDbg that says to me that I don…

[URL] Here is the results from the generic free version. My donation version didn't flag anything either. Norton sucks honestly. Windows 10+ built-in security is sufficient

made my day thanks a lot!

[Quote] A format would delete that as well. Oh well, it's figured out!

Sounds like you are syncing a bunch of temp files that are being automatically deleted as they are supposed to be. Then, you sync again and FFS has to delete them from the destinat…

Ok, will try Thank you Daniel

No trouble! We're on the forum to help

OK I see other posts saying this is not possible. Thanks

OK. I ran FreeFileSync from the command line and got a prompt to install GTK 2. I did that and FreeFileSync seems to be working now. Thanks for the help! Just as a thought, have yo…

Hi there, When FFS tries to delete folders I get the following errors: (I've blocked out some of the directory names for NDA reasons - there are no illegal characters in the actual…

I deleted FileSync with AppDelete and reinstalled it from scratch, rebooted, and now it works.

The read errors are present in both sides, target and source.

Daylight saving is catered for in FFS already. See [URL].

[Quote] This has been fixed for the next release: [Code] That was a regression compared to older releases. FreeFileSync will automatically overwrite a corrupted DB file, if the err…

Hello again: I'm stand corrected, yes it does work however for one Synch session only as it reverted again to a non Elevated/Non admin state so How to change it when saving the bat…

Glad it was an easy fix! It's the beauty of Linux. Weird problems but also having a solution to those weird problems lol

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Hi, Forgive me but I’m new to this…I created a batch job file and saved it to my MacOS Monterey desktop. Both FFS and the MacOS are fully updated. When I double click on the file, …

Could be a corrupted disk, fixable via Windows error checking: [URL]

Could be a corrupted disk, fixable via Windows error checking: [URL]

A madness... To close this issue, FFS works normally on Lubuntu 22.04. Maybe this will be useful to another user who uses this distro. [Attachment]

OK, thanks for investigating! I guess I will stay with version 11.17 for now, this is the last version where everything worked fine!

Hi Zenju, I tried the running the 11.28 BETA version and not I get the following error instead: Cannot move file "E:\ArchiMED4\DBImages\10039774\DB2~c6ef.ffs_tmp" to "E:\ArchiMED4\…

Thank you for your reply. Yes I have come to a similar conclusion. How to fix it though - its a bit of a pain. Maybe someone with more knowledge of the MAC OS could come up with a …

Hallo Nach Update von 11.8 (Free oder Donation) auf 11.27 (Free) erhalte ich bei verschiedenen Rechnern diese Meldung: Warte während das Verzeichnis gesperrt ist: ....... User Admi…

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Okay, let's round progress percentage numbers down in the next FreeFileSync release.

You could run a compare, then use the boxes at the bottom to toggle what the results will show you. You should see a box with "=" in it, which is hidden by default because rarely d…

Hello, When the backup is completed I receive this error when FreeFileSync has to send notification mail, what can I do to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to change installation directory on Ubuntu?

[Quote] No, you shouldn't get a warning for a mirror sync. As of FreeFileSync 11.24 there should be no more false-positives anymore. Warning is only shown if there are "multiple ac…

FFS nor RTS never "starts by itself", unless it is placed in the users Autostart folder (assuming Windows), or started as a Scheduled Task. Deleting the *.ffs_batch -file does not …

Update - seems like my filter should have been *\@eaDir\

Any filters set up?

[Quote] You need some screen? Send me info what and I do for you.

It is very strange. As a browser I use Firefox, but I also tried to open the page with Edge. The result does not change: always the old text. At this point I tried with the smartph…

9/11 are images and most of them (if not all) small files, maybe @zenju would want to take a look at this, also note that I'm using "mirror" to sync/upload these files, but of cour…

I launched FFS as admin yes.

For some files I am getting a warning that FFS 11.27 can’t write the modification time of a file to a file share because the access is denied. Of course, that isn’t case, it just c…

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