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Hi. How do I edit the drop down list of directories/maps to compare, both to the right and to the left? I want to erase some obsolete directories/maps that I don't use anymore.

Configurations can be saved at different stages in the sync process, ie: 1. After creating the configuration but before doing a "compare" 2. After creating the configuration and af…

When I right click a saved configuration, there is a pop-up that shows "Hide configuration Del". Clicking on this removes the configuration from the FileSync Configuration window b…

Hi, I have noticed some people complaining about FFS being slow in comparing/synchronizing, especially in the latest version, but only on windows and on mac. I have been having the…

I get this problem EVERYTIME but only for .pdf files. I am copying from a Win10 machine to another over a shared drive within a home network. It does not matter if the machines are…

thanks for the fix in the new update.

Thank you for the help.

Often compare output show many files on right side with same date but different time(1h and some seconds). I know that these files are not changed. When they are few I discards the…

FreeFileSync (FFS) can copy a file to a specified location if no file with the same name exists in that specified location, or overwrite a pre-existing file with the same name if t…

If all data on your NAS is lost, you have to run a full backup-to-NAS mirror copy anyway. The simplest/quickest is then to run a full copy/paste from your backup to your NAS using …

If you just run a Compare (so no sync yet), what does your Compare window show for the non-copied files? Are they shown there at all?

I've managed to figure this out. I had forgotten that I created a new Power Plan. This meant that the Allow Wake Timers setting had defaulted to Important Wake Timers Only. I have …

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I encountered this problem when the destination drive was a network share location and the destination files were edited on a Windows computer. In this case rsync running on Linux …

A RecycleBin[xxx].ffs_tmp folder will always be created if files are to be recycled in an FFS sync. However, it should also be removed when FFS terminates correctly. See [URL]

Hello, I´m using ffs since last week. I´m not sure, wether I made a mistake or ffs has a bug. I want to sync a folder with a access file to a folder on a synology-nas over internet…

Hi, I have been using FFS for about 2/3 months without issue but after working on my computer for a couple of hours this morning, I keep receiving an error message. FreeFileSync - …

I found a solution. In System Preferences -> Security & Privacy - > Privacy select Full Disk Access in the left pane and add FreeFileSync. This opens Locked down directories to Fre…

FreeFileSync (FFS), as the name suggests, is primarily a file synchronization tool, and works at file level. It can also be used for backup purposes, but still works at file level.…

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Thanks for your feedback! I've updated the manual accordingly. I had tested entering the .ffs_batch directly into "Program/script" and it worked, but Windows 10 with all the major …

I've installed FreeFileSync on my linux based nas (ubuntu server) I want to backup from my Win10 18.09 main PC to my nas. Just reinstalled windows on my main pc today. It worked co…

I've worked on this for over an hour, and still cannot get it to work. I even tried using the real time sync option to open at login through system preferences, and it won't open. …

How do I compare the files in subfolders? Music Library folder view is set to "Songs" but FreeFileSinc simply copied all of the subfolders with their contents. That is useless to m…

Same here...

In Windows 10 I used FFS for syncing files with my Transip Stackstorage and it worked perfectly. Now (after new versions ??) FFS compares both content (after entry of Username / PW…

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Hi, Using version 10.7 I am trying to mirror my C;\ drive to another. When trying to copy hiberfil.sys, pagefile.sys, and swapfile.sys, I get Error Cannot read file ........... Err…

[Quote] Ops, now I really feel bad. I did have a look at the FAQ. I'll have a look. It's definitely the new operating system of my Synology. Used to not do it half a year ago. Than…

There are times when I might change a small attribute like capitalisation which is important and needs to be synced but at the moment the software is refusing to sync these attribu…

This should be solvable with a restart.

I see you've been using different email addresses and it's possible to merge multiple donations (by clicking "Extend") only recently, so I've merged all of them manually. You may t…

I donated for the 10.4 version back in September 2018. Have reinstalled all on a new NVMe. (thanks MS W10 updates) Current version is now 10.7. I am unable to upgrade 2 month old l…

Emptying the recycle bin most likely would also have fixed the perf issue. On slow HDDs the recycle bin access time grows linear with the number of items in it, because apparently …

thanks, i was looking after FreeFileSync_10.7_[Donation_Edition]_Setup.exe /HELP

Hi there, So i go to synchronization settings and check the 'detect moved files' option and then i click OK to exit. Then i reopen the synchronization settings and the 'detect move…

Issue definitly isn't with freefilesync. Any task I open the properties page on will show the same error, regardless of which program is used or if there's any strange syntax.

I performed a mirror sync between my 2 hard drives. All files but the one file has synced successfully -- .photoslibrary type, ~42GB size. I have an older version (~40GB) of this s…

I can sync all my folder to my other computer, but it hangs and stops work, showing more than 1300 days left to finish.

I forgot to write, i use a Donation Version.

Hello, is it possible to make copy from one side to another with flag read only? It would be very useful for me.))

I am finding increasingly often files and folders that shouldn't be deleted in the thrash. It feels like FFS (A program that I routinely support by donating) can't really guess whe…

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The file was not removed from your hard disk. It was only removed from the MRU list (most recently used; programming concept). If you know where the file is, you can just go open i…

Hi. I purchased a Donor edition some time ago, it was version 7.8. I have changed to a new machine and would like to use the current (10.6?) version of the Donor edition. Am I stil…

Upon completion of a Sync operation how can I automatically refresh my screen as if I were to select "Compare" I see an area for a command under Synchronization settings - Run a co…

I finally got an app on my phone (SMBSync2) to do it wirelessly which is better in the long run but it takes forever to initially sync. The app is setting the creation date the sam…

Hello, Is it possible to set ffs to: -Back up files and folders and to keep them in the destination if they are deleted in the source destination -to detect renamed folders and fil…

New user of FFS. Every instance running FFS will leave one more FFS green icon in the dock? I have to click on each one then remove from dock...?