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I'm thinking the ZIP "broke" the file names as what is inside, best I can tell are simply "plain" characters with the only "odd" thing being the ^ character (sequence). I was expec…

Hi, I see this article: [URL] But it's really only running as a Scheduled Task, and NOT as a Windows Service. Is there a way to run this as a real Service?

mmmm... IMHO this is a OneDrive/Windows issue. On an other hand, when I try to do a direct Windows explore copy (of a previously blocked file within the FreeFileSync process) an al…

It was in there - turns out it was corrupt. It's on a disk that shares files with both Mint and Win7 - I had to go to Win7 and run Chkdsk to get it deleted. All seems fine now - no…

FFS will copy files as sparse if the target file system supports it. I suggest setting up a test case copying only a single sparse file and see if that works. If it doesn't, next s…

Hello, I suppose you were replying to Brodi. I have been trying to fix this for almost 2 weeks now. I can execute the batch file from file explorer OR from the green Sync icon's GU…

An easy way to do this is run the compare, then right-click the folder/files, then click exclude from the context menu

Never mind. Apparently you have to close the program, restart it and run the compare and sync again. As I had run the compare and sync many times without removing the errors or war…

I think I found the issue. I need to wait until MTPDrive has retrieved the list of all photos in the device before I use FFSync to copy them.

Problem: tablets do not get a drive letter assigned and sometimes have different volume names, although the tablets are maube identical make/model. Does anyone have any experience …

[Quote] Files with illegal characters won't sync to local storage We aren't deciding what conventions Google uses, the technology industry is. Google should remove support for such…

Multiple locations/computers syncing the same locations

Depends how you set it up originally. Check your startup locations

Thank you for the reply. I ended up using powershell to change the modification date. I'm no powershell expert, but I was able to muddle my way through. I'm not sure how the modifi…

Generally, old FFS database files that are not too old (= "a few years") are migrated automatically. But for updating an ancient FFS version the approach looks like: - Sync all fol…

Greetings! I have a few in-home storage locations (PC, NAS, secondary HDD) with specific folders in each that I would like to backup to GDrive. Some of the folders are modified oft…

LM 20 Cinnamon. I wanted to use the command: [Code] to get the PPA installation. However, I get the error message [Quote] Source of the command: [URL] Helping comment is appreciate…

Delete that empty file. That is usually located on a Windows drive, not sure why it popped up on S:\

It wasn't in Task Manager. I finally found it, but I can't remember where. :-) :-) :-) If I figure it out, I'll post it. Thanks.

As for your "fix", you can sort/filter by creation time and the duplicates should be there. Also, on Windows, duplicates will show up as "xxxxxx (1)", in which case you can use cmd…

On CentOS 6 and 7, you're going to be using Xorg. If this is not the case, you are beyond my skill level. So, with Xorg, you have to have a running Xorg session whose DISPLAY value…

FreeFileSync (FFS) is a file-level synchronization tool. FFS only compares identically named files (and even only in an identical (sub)folder location relative to the left- and rig…

[Quote] It's incredible but after 3 years AVM didn't yet solve this serious ftp limitation. Files date is still sadly wrong. I use GoodSync, but Fritznas using ftp is totally unusa…

Windows Server 2019, two UID used to authenticate and run the task; one executes the scheduled task without trouble, the other fails with 0x2. Both UID have the exact same AD group…

Windows 10, Dark Theme. Thanks for your support. Here an extract of MY_Theme.theme [Control Panel\Colors] Scrollbar=200 200 200 Background=0 0 0 ActiveTitle=153 180 209 InactiveTit…

therube: I'm backing up one Toshiba external HDD to another identical such HDD. I don't see any such "recycle bin" - where could I find it? It sounds like a plan! xCSxXenon: Thanks…

Just donated and it worked without issue you pay via paypal and receive an email with a link to the donated version ** CHECK YOUR JUNK FOLDER for that email....that's where mine en…

Thanks for the reply! After some investigation, our guess would now also be a system error during the sync. Since this should not be a problem with FreeFileSync. I think this topic…

I am having the same problem. Using Linux Mint 19.3 and FreeFileSync 11.1 is there any way to repair the db file. This occurs on two computers but is isolated to one one external d…

This doesn't look right. What was the syntax you used to create the symbolic link?

Hi all, I have a batch job configured to versioning in a folder with: Naming convenction: Timestamp [Folder] Maximum: flagged with 3 Last x days and Minimun: not flagged Running mu…

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I have used FFS twice and have unfortunately had an error twice, in both cases turning my external hard drive from ntfs to RAW. Quite a scare. What helped for me was opening cmd an…

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[Quote] Suspect if you went into the directory in question (at a C: prompt - in that directory), a DEL of *.* would squash them. (If you don't know C: prompts, do not attempt.) Tha…

As far as I know, there is no way

Something new about this issue that occurs yet? Has it been investigated about it?

In BSD Unix, the back-slashes are an "escape character" indicating that a "special character" is about to follow, such as a space or apostrophe... I'm not so sure if the same appli…

[Quote] Ow, so I need to make it in FFS, that is already helpfull. And what should I use to let it do what I want? Mirror? Or Two Way? My E: drive needs to be an exact copy of my D…

[Quote] Hi Zenju I was able to get it working finally, this is just an old post I forgot to delete

Try reverting changes to before that Windows update and test again

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You could hard code the destination in the script, and have a copy of the script for each sync config. More clutter, but should work. Then call the corresponding script for that sy…

[URL] was merged into the master branch. Pending release...

Maybe the 2 NAS uses the same web site to sync time ? Because if I sync between C drive and NAS (the 2 uses diff time sync ) it works - its only between 2 NAS (using the same time …

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[Quote] In which version of FreeFileSync was this behavior changed (so that I know which version I need to be on)? I searched the release archive change notes without success.

Everything else here is correct. Your issue is simply that you don't want the two locations synced. You want to only transfer files that haven't been transferred before, but there …

Can you confirm it is still working with the previous version? That looks more like a runtime error than anything else

Seems to be the same error as in [URL]