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i have a old mac tower for my nas and i would like to use freefilesync because i love how it works on windows but now when i download the mac version it won't install at all. Help …

Any chance to implement an easy install version like a " .deb " version for noobs such as myself ?

My professional diagnosis is "random fluke", i.e. not reproducible. In any case, the installer is digitally signed, so it's easy to manually check for corruption.

I'm looking exactly that! Thanks james78!!!

Hi, one of my favorite features of FFS was the 'Ignore Errors' checkbox that used to exist under the Synchronization tab. I was bitten during a huge file transfer last night when o…

Is there a way to make FFS prompt for password for FTPS connections rather than having to enter the password in the sync settings? I'd really like to save the sync settings file wi…

Thanks Radish, I'll try it! Just want to mention that, although this thread ended up with me going to try a different software for this particular task, I'm using FFS a whole lot a…

Hi, I'm trying to sync read-only sftp folder to local folder from , but get an error message: Cannot read file attributes of "sftp://xxxx". LIBSSH2_ERROR_SFTP_PROTOCOL: SFTP Protoc…

Ah.. THANK YOU!! So simple when you know the answer. BW

yes thanks, your answer helped, everything worked

@HC1: Understood; thanks!

Really? Nothing?

Thanks for your informative reply Radish! Yeah, I didn't think of the option that Windows could be the problem. Come to think of it, I didn't even think of ruling out the USB cable…

Hello, I want to connect to egnyte with FreeFileSync. Does anyone have experience?

Hello, Since last versions while use of FFS I receive after syncing some bizarre hard disk errors in logical structure. What I receive from Windows 10: it is information, that "we …

I created a workaround in "Filter" by setting a minimum file size of 1 Byte. These Icon\r files are 0 bytes so in this case it is easy to discriminate them.

Good idea, I've added "/mnt/<device name>". Now automatic and manual device mounts are nicely handled.

I'm facing the same problem. I have two folders with MP3 files and I would like to sync only files that are bigger than the same named file on the other folder, as they embed the c…

I've got the same problem with the donation version. Removed version 10.4 and install Version 10.5 over it. However this resulted in the same message. During my first installations…

I downloaded the donation file for windows 10 but it will not run, getting "Access Denied" report, what am I doing wrong?

You are welcome. I am happy to help. Thank you very much for the amazingly fast fix. The file server in this instance is a Synology Diskstation with firmware version DSM 6.2.1-2382…

Hello, I have the same problem here. Does anbody know the answer? Best Thomas

I am copying an 18 GB file between a Synology RS18017xs+ a Windows 10 computer, build 1803, on 10Gb with the latest version of FreeFileSync. Here are the speeds and those of Window…

Hi Plerry, thankyou for the reply. I created two folder pairs A->B and A->C running as separate mirror jobs for updating a directory on 2 different tablet computers. A is a directo…

oh sorry, it was my mistake. I had copied the job files to another path and edited with xml editor directly. So the scheduled tasks used other task files than are visible in the gu…

Your notion of how RealTimeSync works seems flawed. RTS does e.g. not "run every 30 to 20 seconds". The [URL] explains how RTS works and what it does. Particularly the last paragra…

Hi Zenju, OK, thank you. I found out what I've done wrong when testing this option. It seems to work as expected. Kind Regeards TheExpert

[Quote] Sounds good. I've implemented this for 10.6 with a number of other cool Linux features such as a unified package containing both 32 and 64 bit using a launcher, just like F…

Hello, thank you for your help. I run the 10.6 beta version and it is running fine with the same synchro configuration (gui) as the one that crash with version 10.5. Best regards. …

Hi, I am looking for a way to move EQUAL files and overwrite the same files on the right side of the panel. I have two folders of pictures...some are the same, some are the same na…

I followed: [URL] with the objective of running this at a specific time of the day. I created a ffs_batch file from FFS from 2 jobs backing up 2 folders. I highlighted the two jobs…

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***Resolved*** It looks like the first v10.5 installation was corrupt. I uninstalled v10.5 and reinstalled same version. This time the .ffs_batch files work without issue.

[Quote] The folder contains "deleted" and "overwritten" files from last sync, so you decide that. [Quote] Definitively :)

[Quote]Problem could have to do with Windows - as it has a folder "Videos" by default, which might be handled "special". If the problem only happens with this name, i'd change sour…

Yes, the idea is that the betas should be replaced once a new release is out.

@Harm, It should not be a problem to analyze the used space, there are freeware programs like treesize. This sounds more like wrong sync settings from you. FreeFileSync can handle …

Hey, I'm trying to copy items from the left side to right side but I want it so if the item is gone/deleted from the right side then it does not try and copy it again. I tried usin…

Dear all, I use the great app FileSync to do mirror synchronisation of my documents on my MacBook Pro to my NAS Synology. The think I can't understand is why each time I launch a s…

While building version 10.5 from source in Manjaro Linux (Arch Linux derivative), I get the following error: [Code] Because the file is not critical to build or operate FreeFileSyn…

The product is so slow as to be unusable. Syncing to a NAS drive on LAN. Mirror Operation Gigabit Switch - Gigabit Router. All hardwired. Cat 5 cable that streams 1080 video quite …

I'm running FFS 9.8 on MX Linux 17.1 x64. This is the latest version of MX, which is a debian derivative. I'm running into routine large hangs during mirror jobs. Usually I mirror …

In other words: After running your sync press the "=" button ("Show files that are equal") behind "Select view:" mid-below the two (left and right) comparison results windows.

[Quote] Could you give me some guidance on how to do this? Thanks

[Quote] Zenju should have added that you will only see "[Donation Edition]" in the application title bar if, in the Configuration pane, the "<Last Session>" item is highlighted/sel…

thx.

Unfortunately the current codegen is broken for 64-bit Vista/Server 2008 due to automatically generating AVX2 instructions that are understood by later OSs, but lead to crashes/han…

PIerry, Great answer, one that I would never have thought of or about. I found a useful reference: [URL] It would appear that, for the 1TB drives (HDD NTFS vs SSD exFAT), the clust…

Hi, Sorry for huge delay. VPN is OK. I work with openVPN and it works properly. In windows version of FFS there is button "Access Online Storage" where user can set SFTP access. I …

Yup. Just figured it out, too. That's exactly what I did.