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OK, thanks. Yes, that appears to be the same issue.

You cannot do what you are trying to do. RTS monitors the folders in the sync and will start a batch job when it detects a change or when it is connected. mtp DOES NOT support this…

The major issue is your spotty connection, not the program. What stops you from starting the sync again? It should restart where it left off. You could also temporarily exclude all…

I don't think RTS is causing this. FFS on the other hand uses RestartManager to get additional error info when failing to open a locked file.

I'm going to ding your inbox again just to thank you. Thanks for all your help! :-)

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It works! Thanks!!

For the record: 2147942403 = 0x80070003 = FACILITY_WIN32: ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND

Hello. First of all, I have problems copying the oermissions from the source to the destination, although I am running the app with admin rights. It keeps telling me the error 740,…

Windows has a 260 character limit I believe. Is it only a single directory? What reason does it give you for the failure to create a directory.

I solved myself. The problem was related to an external disk. The disk could be read/written by other Apps, so I excluded a privilege issue on it. But I have dismounted and remount…

Thanks for the reply. I'm in my busy photography season and can only play with this once in a while. I really like this program. Still learning it though. Thanks again for the help…

Is there a way to backup my Google docs & spreadsheets to my local PC? Syncing does not download these files. It also does not work using Google Backup&Sync program. I realize thes…

Two USB drives: No problem. You may want to use [URL]instead of drive letters. Different file systems: this may create a problem when crossing a daylight saving time transition. FF…

You don't write what left-right base folder combination(s) you are using. But the cause of the problem is almost certainly there. You also do not clearly describe what you aim to a…

Use RTS. It will monitor the two directories. Once you plug it in, it will see the directory, then trigger a sync after the idle delay time you set in RTS.

Okay, I get drift. Thanks very much for your response.

I also had this problem and resolved it by using the tarball from download page. In researching this error message I came across a discussion of this same issue with another applic…

What happens if you copy the file from the Android device manually via Windows Explorer? Does this work? If, yes, what's the target file size after copying?

[Quote] Ok that makes sense then. [Quote][Quote] Ok I'll remember that for the future, I hadn't realised. [Quote] [Quote] That's fantastic - this will definitely make life easier. …

Some/many (S)FTP servers do not preserve file-date when creating a file.

Thanks for confirming! Perhaps an interim solution might be to have the message indicate that pause has been requested, instead of saying it has been paused when it really has not!…

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Process explorer did not show anything, I use Nirsoft OpenedFilesView which is much easier to use, with sort by file path. There are only "system" as processes opening "files" in t…

FFS doesn't prioritize anything based on size. It is all based on newer or not existing. Check your sync settings.

Another (obvious) question is: Did you checkmark the Auto-close and Ignore Errors checkboxes when saving the FFS batch job?

wow, that's quite some execution speed here guys... thanks a lot for this speedy fix, can confirm the 10.16beta works now fine and brings the correct calendar week number as return…

ohh ok I see this was paid via paypal linked to different email. I'm sorry! The error message at the end of the transaction may have been caused by this? Ok thank you for your help…

Just re-tested with FFS 10.15, still crashing... It seems that it's my source that FreeFileSync can't handle, and it's very specific: When backing up from the (old) Avid ISIS serve…

Oops. I thought the batch job had the correct comparision and synchronisation settings but I could see when I checked in the FreeFileSync GUI that they weren't. It's working nicely…

I am getting a warning that my donation has recently expired, and so I am trying to donate again. Howevever, I cannot find how much I should pay in GBP for one year. Geoff.

Hey guys, My new Windows Server 2019 is online and ready to use :) But I have a little problem. Hope someone can help me. My situation. New server is at location 1. At location 2 t…

I have a 10GB collection of files all subordinate to a single directory. I have several copies of this structure that I have been synchronizing with FreeFileSync. Recently, I moved…

If you have enabled the Detect Moved Files option in the FFS sync settings (F8) (which is standard/mandatory for a Two-way sync), after running the sync FFS creates a database at b…

Hello, I have created a special file backup HDD by ffs, which contains all user files of several image backups made during the last years. In order to make this searchable, I tried…

Understood. Thank you very much for the detailed reply. Much appreciated!

Hi folks, I have a script which runs various FFS batch jobs without a problem when initiated from a Linux Mint Terminal window. However, when initiated by cron all the FFS batch jo…

Thanks for this but I'm not sure I understand all those very lengthy messages... I tried to exclude the FileSync folder from Defender but this doesn't change anything. Still the sa…

Maybe you started RTS with admin rights, in which case Windows does not allow drag and drop from lower-privilege processes as a security precaution.

Reinstall the program first

I see, but theres is no way to detect MTP version in order to exclude for example devices with android 4.3 and lower automatically ?

Im trying to sync two hard drives to one network share. I have set up a symlink for one hard drive inside the other hard drive as follows F:\Link\ <-> I:\ So when i scan F:\ and my…

Hello, I have 3 folders in this problem, folder A, B and C. I'm trying to move a file from folder A to B and C however after dropping a file in folders B and C they disappear after…

[Quote] Oh that worked perfectly, thank you very much!

Spot on advice. I had unpacked only the installer. Many thanks for your speedy response. Have a good weekend!

Hi, Hoping for a little bit of help please. I have a 2016 Essentials server at home, which I use as a device to store pretty much everything - films, music and photos etc. I also h…

Indeed the filter is only applied for the files that are considered for synchronization, but not for the versioning folder during the clean-up step ("limit file versions"). The sol…

I am not the author, but I can imagine the author will not be eager to implement this, as it sort of defies the purpose of Versioning. But on second thought you may be able to do w…

Hi Gianni, ISO 8601 doesn't specify what "week_of_the_month" is so I chose to define mine as being relative to the week_number of the week containing the first day of the month. Su…

You need to run the program off of a USB drive. You'll want to put the portable files on the USB drive and open it on your main computer first, to activate. More info: [URL]