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Thanks for pointing that out, Zenju. I use Bitdefender which supplants most all of Windows Defender protection monitoring. I gave Bitdefender exclusions to all FreeFileSync executa…

I'm using FreeFileSync (FFS) to upload some files using ftps to some web server. Some process on the web server will immediately grab those files for further processing but somehow…

Thanks a lot!

[Quote] From the [URL]: "Each time a file or folder is created/updated/deleted in the monitored directories or their sub directories, RealTimeSync will run the command line." Note …

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You don't have to, the file is used automatically (or you would have seen an error message).

You can split your FFS sync in [URL], and use local Sync Settings (incl. local Versioning settings) per individual left-right folder pair (using the green gear-icon in between the …

I think I've accidentally found the cause! Before the installation I had uninstalled the previous version of FreeFileSync via the Windows7 Control Panel/Uninstall. For some reason,…

Can you you navigate to this file with the following tool and post a screenshot? This should give some additional insights: [URL]

Quick Update. My storage is QNAP and I was using their FTP Server. I switched the FTP Server to FileZilla and no longer receive the time out error. The issue was the FTP on QNAP. T…

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Great Gianni, will definitely try this one! Unfortunately, I have a situation where both the name and some of the content of those duplicate folders could have changed (at least sl…

I might have resolved this. One of the servers had run out of space for /var/log and thus showing all kinds of disjointed symptoms, including the inability to properly list the fil…

Thank you very much Gianni, that's very helpful! I now managed to find most, if not all files that are present only on one side of the synced folder pair, regardless of the files' …

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When I follow installation instructions to drag FreefileSync app icon in Mac Finder over location services panel (unlocked) I'm not able/allowed to add the app. Any suggestions app…

[Quote] FFS is only considering the latest version (but is showing the total count over all versions on the thank-you page). Therefore implicitly old computers won't be counted aga…

Scenario: => 2 Virtual Machines on the same Host physical PC, all the 3 machines have the same OS, Windows 10 Pro. => On the Host Machine i share with the 2 VM Guests the same Fold…

I found that one of my Devuan systems actually does play the sounds! I compared installed packages, and adding all the different sound-related-sounding packages did not help. Runni…

Depending on what is most suitable for your use-case: If your entire sync consists of that single-file, you may change the Include filter to just include that file. You can do so b…

This is a known issue (with no solution so far) [URL]

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yes! 10.20 works! thanks

It's only version "6.14.10.14847" that is buggy and causing crashes. NVIDIA Nview Desktop Manager v149.77 is available here: [URL]

I just ran a quick test with version 10.20 beta Linux and it does not have the problems with the Places menu, and it did not generate the error message about the Trash directory. T…

I just found a small error in my script and the problem was solved. Thank you so much for your help, bgstack15!

I could have written: While FreeFileSync is not running, locate the applicable GlobalSettings.XML file, open it with a text-editor, verify that directly behind VerifyCopiedFiles it…

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Thank you, it worked :-) Previously I use Arch User Repository version which was created 2 day after last update and it didn't work properly. I deleted AUR version and downloaded f…

Never gunna give you up, never gunna let you down!!

NM, just saw the 10 installer news...

"Run minimized" works! Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Hello, With the version 10.20 beta it works like 10.17 .OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 64-Bit. Greetings from Germany Heiko

I tried version 10.20 and it worked. I will still use 10.17 until 10.20 will be released. Thank you :-)

Conflicts with other active syncs is what the sync.ffs_lock file is supposed to help avoid (unless these sync are running against different base folders on the network share, obvio…

Maybe it's caused by one of these: [URL]

Good day, We're attempting to synchronize files between 2 Windows Server 2019 Domain Controllers running on VMWare vSphere (ESXi) v6.7. The two servers are in different locations, …

It is created so two different syncs don't edit data at the same time. You can delete them, be sure that there are no active syncs going

Change the include filter to only include the root directory?

Technically, files are never transferred, but only copied. You will need a batch script that runs after completion that deletes contents in the source directory. Check your sync se…

Prior to this solution, I had read everything and youtubed many videos, and tried every setting to figure out why it wasn't working. I am not uneducated in the workings of software…

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This issue has gotten even worse for me since v10.18 was released. Now even when I disable "Fail-safe file copy" it doesn't stop FFS from hanging at the end of Sync. Does anyone kn…

Hello, i ve a server dedicated server which i want to mirror some folders. The thing is that, i have prohibited ssh root login. Is there a way to login as normal user and on top of…

[Quote] I updated from 10.11.6 El Capitan to 10.14.6 Mojave. Now "Compare" no longer works. Anyone have a solution? (FreeFileSync versione 10.18 - 19.11.2019) (TextWrangler version…

I'm not sure what is going on exactly. In my setup, the folders from the source C: drive are mirrored correctly on the NAS backup location. I have replace versioning enabled. I not…

USING WIN 10 PRO VERSION 1909 (OS BUILD 18363.535) Freefilesynd 10.18 (build 2019.11.19) After install win 10 pro, mainboard chipset, I installed freefilesync and did mirroring. I …

Makes sense. Thx.