FreeFileSync Forum

The general idea is to activate it once (which is done automatically upon the first start) and never have to do it again. If no internet access is available for this first run, a k…

[Quote] Really? Aren't these just AppleDouble files for file names starting with a "."? The reason FFS had this filter previously was because of "._.Trash". What FFS needs is an op…

I assume legacy FTP without UTF8 support?

Fixed: [URL]

Ahhhh!! So simple, when you know how - and I obviously looked in the wrong place. Many thanks, much appreciated, all is now working well.

Anyone?

I change my question to solved. Wanted to give me a reminder to syncronise when more then 8 days passed since last syncronisation. (use a script in autostart for that) I take the d…

Thanks for the thanks, appreciated and my pleasure. [Quote] If you are sure that left over [WhateverName].ffs_gui files are configuration files that you no longer want to keep then…

This is normal behaviour for FFS -- I get such warnings from time to time myself on Mirror syncs, I just select to Ignore the 'warning' and things proceed fine. However, from memor…

Please excuse me for my poor Englisg... I have done correctly a synchronization (mirror) of my pictures. It has taken 2 hours. Well, if I make a little change on my original folder…

I have since been able to open and run FreeFileSync - thanks very much indeed, James

[Quote] Yes, that would be great!

if the target file is newer than the source, besides the "do nothing" option, maybe there shoud be a "ask user" option?

Thank you. I like your program. Two other questions: 1. If I close Free File Sync with the results of a Compare still on the screen, as opposed to clearing the Compare, will this c…

Has anyone gotten the permissions errors when doing a simple mirroring of one hard drive to another on their mac of Cannot open directory, for spotlight v100, document revisions v1…

I've written two synch profiles in FFS: c:\foo\* mirror to j:\foo\* c:\foo\* mirror to k:\foo\baz\* These work fine when I run them manually. How can I specify for them to run in r…

Hi, that's great! FFS 10.10 works like a charm with FTP now. Really really thanks

It would be nice if destination is an exact mirror of the source including deleting empty folders. Running a script afterwards to remove empty directories in destination is not a s…

I recently went to do a mirror transfer from an internal hard drive to an external hard drive and put a bunch of filters on but then decided to clear them all and pick different fi…

FFS can't access "Protected Folders" in Windows. If I turn on Ransom Protection in Windows Security, a FreeFileSync can't access protected folders and lock them for sync. Also, it …

I have nine profiles created the I use for backup to a local hard drive. I also have what I call a remote hard drive that I only backup to on a monthly basis. Rather than recreatin…

I am just starting to master Realtime sync. I created a Realtime sync "job" to monitor a folder and to update a mirrored copy on another drive. I want to modify this action since I…

I'm not able to reproduce the GUI glitch. It seems the server icon is missing on your screenshot, and the close button is on the left instead of right. This is how it looks on Ubun…

Is it useful if two hard disks are synchronized to provide multiple file accesses. Or only with FTP? In a first test I could not find any improvement. Would be great if there were …

Much appreciated thanks!!

Can someone please explain why I keep getting this error code? this software is useless if I can't get past this. 'Error Code 13: Permission denied [opendir]'

I had a system backup running using FFS on a server 2008 using FFS v.7.2 This sync would take between 5 and 6 hours. The sync occurs over a VPN to a remote location Last November, …

Hi, I have only been using free file synce for a short while and noticed under the logs I am reviewing that some files are always listed to be updated every time the schedule runs.…

0 bytes and no change in files when I try to sync with it deleting the recycle.bin folder. Why? [Image]

My guess is a backup was triggered between transferring and it screwed up that folder.

I would like to know how many parallel file operations (PFO) I can run at once? FFS is installed on my NVME, and I'm comparing by "File Content" (rather than File and Size) with my…

Which FFS version is this? What exactly is the problem? Is the error message not correct?

Is it ok to be running real time sync from one external drive to another where there is a Lightroom Catalog on that drive that is open and being used? I know LR is constantly savin…

I want to compare two directories and folders (and their files) that don't exist in the compared paths are copied to the other path... i.e. folder not showing on the left side but …

FreeFileSync now supports MTP devices that don't implement a move command: [URL]

today I tried to run freefilesync (portable) at work for the first time, by copying the installation locally, without internet and a window popped up asking me to activate, that's …

Thank You, but in 10.8 the old Command Lines are working...

I had the same problem with the new 10.9 Version... fortunately i still had (cause of a different error) a Beta Version (FreeFileSync_10.9_[Beta]_Windows_Setup9) around and with th…

I wanted to do a simple mirrored sync from one external drive to the other of various image files and a Lightroom catalog. I did it the first time and it went off great. But I didn…

I'm not sure what to conclude regarding the differences in file count. If you read the FAQs article that I pointed to it could well be the case that Windows is miscounting the file…

Tru using the [URL].

hello, new user of this software and I donated to download the portable version and I'm setting it up now and I have two issues: 1) is there any way to disable the realtimesync win…

FreeFileSync thinks the server is using some ANSI encoding because it does not return "UTF8" when asked via "FEAT".

I have the same problem with error code 56. I tried it on three different PCs (Win 8, 7 and XP) with the same result. Is it possible to remove this problem? Thank you for any answe…

Can Filesync be used to safely sync local files on a computer that are in the Onedrive folder and which are synced with Onedrive?

Hi, I understand now, I'd been thinking of the *.ffs_batch file for combining multiple *.ffs_gui files, I'd not appreciated the 'unattended synchronisation' part.... Ironically, I …

Hi it is generating "Move to recycle bin" and "Create" instead of rename file and it take ages to finish. my configuration machine1 master folder on windows 10 4 different machines…

Thank you a lot! Finally a decent way to sync files to and from Google Drive.

Same issue.

Hi, Today, in order to use FreeFileSync, i do some tests. So, when i try to save more than 3 versioning (my max for my test), problems... For instance, i ve this file : - test.txt …